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Webinar: Winning the Story Wars

Care2

Are you looking for a better way to tell your organization's story? In this webinar you will learn: What the story wars are and why you need to join the fray! 3 steps for engaging in "empowerment marketing," including identifying your organizational values, telling the truth and being interesting.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. million nonprofits in the U.S.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. He ran into Congo. It had been bombed.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. We trained them in how to use their cell phones for rapid response, and how to write Op-eds, feature stories, and front line journals. We had the BBC pick up some of those stories, the UN Wire, and The Huffington Post.

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The Future Today: Empowering youth via social media

Amy Sample Ward

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). Share your story - we’d love to hear it!

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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