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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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The pink ribbon that has become the most widely recognized symbol of breast cancer awareness came about when a 68-year-old California woman named Charlotte Haley, whose sister, daughter, and granddaughter had breast cancer, created peach-colored ribbons to call attention to inadequate funding for breast cancer research. Nonprofits to support.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

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The Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC, has presented a series of exhibitions, beginning with COURAGE , that marry provocative historical and cultural content with programmatic opportunities for community development. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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People like Charlotte Bunch at the Center for Women's Global Leadership, spoke first about women's rights being human rights. Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food.

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