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Train for Humanity is looking for new participants!

Amy Sample Ward

All funds from phase two will go directly toward supporting the Darfur Peace & Development Organization’s (DPDO) school project. Since the genocide started, there have been an estimated 300,000 deaths of innocent men, women, and children and over two million persons displaced. Follow the updates from Train for Humanity on Darfur.

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Should Your Nonprofit Be Active on the New Myspace?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s these nonprofits that bravely took the leap: Muchos kudos to the Myspace pioneers.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

When you hear about what is going in Darfur, do you feel like you want to do something, but you don't know what to do? Roger Winter, a Sudan expert gave an update on the current situation in the Sudan, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and how the Darfur conflict is important in the larger context of Sudan. All the time.

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Net Neutrality & Darfur: Two Reasons to Call Your Rep. Today

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According to SaveDarfur.org , "Later today the House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to provide critical funding for humanitarian aid in Darfur." They are asking that you call your Representative today and ask that he or she vote for the Obey/Hyde/Lantos amendment which would add $50 million in humanitarin aid in Darfur.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people. There's YouTube video here.

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The Drumbeat of Bad News in the Nonprofit and Philanthropy Sector and A Couple of Glimmers of Hope

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ChildrensHealth : Children's hospitals always need toys this time of year. Be A Voice for Darfur is a petition and awareness campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Shelters R being overwhelmed because people R losing homes/can't afford pets. Here's one for you.

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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

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Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. They are collecting questions from supporters about Darfur to include in the video. * Save the Children's homepage uses mostly photos of healthy, rather than sick, children. * The Yes We Can Obama video.

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