Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

However, she said it might work really well for home schooled children and citizen journalism, but in the workplace, Jane said, for her it provides too much interruption. Debbas who was in Iran at the time, risking his life said, "It helped because I didn't want to die anonymously and we can discredit raising awareness.".

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

Consider this fact: unless the world tackles inequity today, 167 million children will live in extreme poverty by 2030. While very alarming, this statistic and many others like it aren’t necessarily in the forefront of our minds. Enter, International Day of Charity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. On the one hand, the formal way to answer this question would be: I was 20 when I arrived in the U.S. More than that, I was raped also myself, and I was so shy and ashamed of even acknowledging that.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2010

Our hearts might have been broken that night, but we kept the faith that our child, like Martin Luther King’s own four children would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are people in positions of power in places like Iran and Washington, D.C. I envision a world where there are no starving children, where there are no children without shoes, where there is no pregnant mother who can't get access to decent health care, no clear-cut forest, no endangered species. It loves science.

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