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The Save Darfur Coalition’s "Be A Voice For Darfur" - A Stellar Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Geoff Livingston and Qui Diaz are behind this brilliant multi-channel campaign that is using social media for social good. . Here's the call to action from the web site.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. The US Campaign for Burma is asking for a boycott of the Games: "China is paralyzing UN Security Council action on Burma.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: How Does Your Nonprofit Have Fun and Do Good?

Have Fun - Do Good

Your favorite fun, creative nonprofit campaign (i.e. School gardening program, Urban Sprouts , has fun by collaborating with Meet the Greens , a website about two middle school kids who are green (literally and environmentally), and with Trash Mash-Up an organization that works with students to make costumes and other fun things out of trash.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I helped her track down the people behind the Support the monks Campaign and Facebook Burma Group, an unofficial representative in the UK named Imran Jamal, Burma Global Action Network. They were bored students, clicking on their friend???s moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. serial activists???,

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. His campaign was successful.

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