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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Maybe one is that Giving Tuesday becomes an official national holiday or becomes an annual event like Cyber Monday.

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Change.org is Hiring Bloggers for Social Action Blog Network

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Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. blogging job activism

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Communities in Schools. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. National Coalition for the Homeless. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Communities in Schools. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. National Coalition for the Homeless. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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Once the sponsored woman gets into the program - and she usually is one of the most socially excluded women in her own community within a conflict or post-conflict area - she is grouped with a group of 20 other women in what's called a "women's circle." When we met her, Honorata was homeless. That's the story of Women for Women.