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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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Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. How did they do it?

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

Care2

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. How did they do it?

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9 Captivating Content Ideas to Enhance Your Nonprofit Blog

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The Doctors Without Borders blog has plenty of examples of this type of captivating storytelling, including a gripping story about people fleeing violence in Sudan. Educational resources Educational blog posts help your audience learn more about issues related to your mission.

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Building the World You Want: 6 Nonprofit Campaigns to Consider on International Day of Charity

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Consider this fact: unless the world tackles inequity today, 167 million children will live in extreme poverty by 2030. Yet, access to decent housing remains a critical issue for a significant portion of the world’s population. While very alarming, this statistic and many others like it aren’t necessarily in the forefront of our minds.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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I just came from a meeting where I was told that the women we are servicing in Southern Sudan are earning double the per capita income in that country. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. It is not a third world issue or a conflict issue.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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In Tanzania, only something like 3.5%; in Sudan, it's only about 1.5%, and even in India, which we think of as being more developed, it's only about 10% of the people who actually have a job in the formal private sector. That's not every issue. But, in Africa, where we work, there are very, very few jobs in the formal private sector.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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There she found her five children who had survived by the kindness of strangers. They learned about reproductive health issues, such as their anatomy, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and child birth. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." Honorata joined Women for Women International in August 2004.

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