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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Each card is a piece of art in my mind. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He was coming back to his village, and he found that his village was in flames. It had been bombed.

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Live The Questions Now

Global Giving

He kept probing and soon discovered a system of forced labor in the Belgian Congo that would become one of history’s notorious humanitarian crises. Zen Buddhism describes this idea as “ Beginner’s Mind ”?—?the You don’t have to have Leonardo’s mind to do this. Looking for a way to get started?

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Consistent, relevant content is key to keeping your campaign top of mind for donors. Keep in mind that each company sets their own policy. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mashable has dubbed it one of the best places to watch great minds in action. It's called Why Congo Matters. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). PopTech Conference: PopTech is one of the most renown annual gatherings of doers and thinkers in the world. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content. So, we started this program.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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That’s when they decided that youth, who are idealistic, energetic and open-minded, would be the engine to peacebuilding to ensure that genocide does not go unchallenged. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada.

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