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Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time

Have Fun - Do Good

I was so inspired by how you can warm up someone's life with knitting, in more way than one, that I've signed up to be notified the next time my local knitting store offers a beginner's knitting workshop. Last week I wrote about my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. This one definitely tops my list, and I don't even knit.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

The event happens in the week leading up to Mother’s Day and provides a platform where anyone can build a heartspace with text, photos and videos to show their love for their mother, an important woman in their life, or even people that inspire them. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million?

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. National Coalition for the Homeless. Maplight.org.

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Update: Nonprofits - Power and Influence in our lives

Connection Cafe

Sunday, I decided not to add them to the total – I did not count churches, but did count faith-based organizations, like the Mobile Loaves and Fishes truck feeding the homeless near a downtown park. Here are the final results – unscientific and I am sure it’s not comprehensive.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. National Coalition for the Homeless. Maplight.org.

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

Achieve

She saw firsthand the inequalities that existed in the world, including children and families struggling to have food and clothes, the bare essentials we take for granted. She had five children and had to abandon her home and take them to a settlement for disaster victims. A single mother named Chantale led the family.

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300 More Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Children flogged in Syrian secret prisons. Make a Gift, Change a Life. Help your local homeless shelter, arts programs, and animal rescue–all at the same time. Make the holidays brighter for sick children — every gift doubled! Support Children’s Hospital on #GivingTuesday! Happy Holidays! Be the light.

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