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Why the movement needs mystics

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For a long time now (since 2003) protest in its traditional form hasn't felt like the right thing for me, even though I had spent all of my adult life as an activist in a number of causes, including anti-nuclear, environmental, pro-choice, health issues, anti-death penalty, and others. Many people would use different language for it.

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Why the movement needs mystics

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For a long time now (since 2003) protest in its traditional form hasn't felt like the right thing for me, even though I had spent all of my adult life as an activist in a number of causes, including anti-nuclear, environmental, pro-choice, health issues, anti-death penalty, and others. Many people would use different language for it.

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How to Maximize Success Stories Across Your Nonprofit’s Digital Channels

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause. The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. How can you break through the noise? Final Thoughts.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

And here’s Anthony, he was in one of my wounded veteran programs that these young men and women who’ve lost their legs and arms in Iraq and Afghanistan. Where maybe they’re not, you know, super preferential to a specific cause or anything like that, or maybe the opposite.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. She was a sexual slave.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not? The cow or pig exhibit is called “Meet Your Meat.” and displayed in the museum. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are. KR: For me it is very simple.

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