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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

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Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Our EveryAction Hero: Middle East Children's Alliance

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. I think there is a challenge for all of us in our movements to change the world, to keep going and to stay inspired when we are confronted with so much misery and so many travesties and so.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. 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. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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