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

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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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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? That would be me!

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

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What drives you and motivates you to create change in your community? Tell us about the change you're making in your community. This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. Share your story.

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How to Create, Manage and Evolve Your Nonprofit Blog

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A blog is an opportunity not only to change static into dynamic, but also discover and share voices from your organization. He envisions Pictographers as an advocate for advancing humanitarian storytelling as a means of social change, as well as a new way to train activists to use such storytelling to make the world a better place.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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At the same time, we would be creating projects that were more locally tailored and more specific and impactful, and allowed a community and a set of individuals to be able to repeat that process, and learn all of the important skills of how to create community change. One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. If you know some brilliant developers who want to actually get paid to change the world, put them in touch with us. If you know someone like that, send her (or him) my way, too!

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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Many people feel like they can't change issues like the genocide in Darfur, they feel too big. The Genocide Intervention Network has a good list of 10 Ways You Can Take Action Today including writing to elected officials, divesting from Sudan, holding an awareness raising event, and creating a video for 24 Hours for Darfur.

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