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8 Changebloggers: Nonprofits and Individuals Creating Change with Blogs

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Adam De Rose, Interfaith Worker Justice Blog Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) advances the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. It specializes in adoption from China, Taiwan and Haiti.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

And I hadn’t noticed the imagery at first, but when you look at it here you can see, [image] clearly the contrast that they’re creating is around skin tone where Kendra’s opponent has very light skin, rosy skin, “Kodak China Girl skin” as its described, and Kendra’s skin is darkened and she looks very shadowy.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. And speaking of celebrities and fundraising , Frogloop, tells us how to leverage them to raise more dollars for nonprofits. For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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What makes us special, I think, is the caliber of consulting that we do. We love people that look for fair trade for the farmers overseas, and supporting a bamboo village in China. I think one of the things that is missing from cities are policies that support the creation of an environment for a company to thrive and to grow.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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I worked from the Russian Far East to China to the Bering Sea region to here in the United States, meeting everyday citizens who were standing up for their communities, who had a vision and, with the proper access to resources, support, and visibility, were redesigning the future as we know it. My work brought me around the world.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Inequities around who sees and who remains blind have undoubtedly been aggravated by recent innovations in ‘Big Data’, so many of which are perhaps more bluster than reality, with companies like the data analytics consultancy Acxiom confidently promising clients a panoptic ‘360-degree customer view’. legal/privacy-policy.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant. The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories.

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