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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

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Because Women for Women International has an engaged and vocal online supporter base, I am lucky that my time investment usually pays off. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive? Book Tour Sponsors ?. Anything else? Book Tour ?. ?

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

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In 2006, the Aquarium sponsored a letter-writing campaign in the museum, giving visitors an opportunity to send postcards to the governor expressing support for the establishment of marine protected areas on California's central coast. But I'm highly suspicious of most of these.

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Game Friday: Vocabulary, Poverty, and Meaningful Score Keeping

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Here's how it works: define a word properly, and the site's sponsors will donate the equivalent of ten grains of rice to the UN WFP. Free Rice is linked to a sister site, poverty.com, which disseminates information about world hunger and other issues.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. He was the first person that we sponsored to our High School Education Program, and he was able to complete his education. It had been bombed.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

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Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. What was most sexy?

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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One of the ones I am continuing to support is Women for Women International. This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. I also write a letter to her each month; sometimes she writes back.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. women war nonprofit survivor

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