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Game Friday: Vocabulary, Poverty, and Meaningful Score Keeping

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This week, Free Rice , a very casual game that can allow you to use your erudite mastery of the English language to provide rice to hungry people via the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP). 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.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). It's one of the hardest things to measure, and it's probably one of the hardest things to do. He ran into Congo. It had been bombed.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It's called Why Congo Matters. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Take your pick!

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? The Global Fund tries to measure those results, not so much by our own standards, but by the standards that the groups that we support set for themselves. For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact.

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