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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Homogenous nonprofit board compensation results in blind spots, but the change is still slow to come. He is a Chicago-born Oregonian, who moved to Eugene after living abroad in Sudan. 27% of all nonprofit boards lack even one person of color. Leaders must be the objective prime mover for slow-moving board diversity.

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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Building the World You Want: 6 Nonprofit Campaigns to Consider on International Day of Charity

EveryAction

Consider this fact: unless the world tackles inequity today, 167 million children will live in extreme poverty by 2030. Since its launch in April, the campaign has partnered with notable sponsors, celebrities, and community leaders to change lives and ensure families have access to decent housing. Enter, International Day of Charity.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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I just came from a meeting where I was told that the women we are servicing in Southern Sudan are earning double the per capita income in that country. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20