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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. Psychic wages” are not providing incentives to offset student loan debt, housing prices, and health insurance. He is a Chicago-born Oregonian, who moved to Eugene after living abroad in Sudan.

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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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Weekly Member Round Up: New and Old Technology for Good!

NTEN

Flickr: Iwan Indrawan Technological change moves quickly! The Educational Development Center is helping nearly 150,000 students in Sudan receive a better education, using a relatively old technology: the radio. But NTEN members are using the newest, and some of the oldest, technologies to do good all over the world.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

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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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. A way to test strategies for nonviolent strategies and action for change.

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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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Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. They are an awesome team of people and they have already implemented some changes to help charities showcase their work.

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

Care2

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. They are an awesome team of people and they have already implemented some changes to help charities showcase their work.

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