Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. On Friday, I was on a "Darfur Activist" conference call produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND and the Save Darfur Coalition. But why aren't more people doing these things?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. The museum display included information about the issue, a countdown clock to the government's decision, and a running tally of postcards submitted to date.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Fundraising websites are powerful tools to help you raise more money; it’s the rallying point for all of your planning and messaging. See how CauseVox makes it easy for you to create an online fundraising site that helps you raise more with less effort. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). 1) Visual Storytelling.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

It's also a nice "put your money where your mouth is," not wholy unlike that at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest, where you choose which gorilla advocacy group your admission fee will support. If you are interested in the leveraging of social media sites to raise money for charity causes, Beth's blog is a great resource.

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Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2019

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. Annie Duke, a psychologist turned professional poker player, suggests framing your uncertainty in terms of bets , like “I’m 70% sure that our new fundraising campaign will raise at least $1,000.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. will have the opportunity to earn a spot on the GlobalGiving website if they mobilize supporters to raise $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

The conflict in the Democratic Republic Congo has received scant attention from policymakers and the news media even as over 5.4 Fortunately, new organizations are now leading the charge to bring attention to the horrors being perpetrated in the ongoing crisis in eastern Congo. million people have died in the past 10 years.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? For example, the Holocaust Museum has a great Flash exhibition of Angelina Jolie’s trip to the Congo. The words “site within a site” should raise a red flag—this is a double walled garden!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

One example of the incredible change that education can bring to a community is Malaika , a grassroots nonprofit that educates and empowers girls and communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo through a school, a community center, a clean water program, technical classes and and organic farm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Of all the mass communications tools your organization is using (website e-newsletters, social networking sites, mobile), which is resulting in the most online dollars being raised (directly or indirectly)? Currently WITNESS’ e-newsletter helps raise the most online dollars. In general, views were great, the conversations were not.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Founder and CEO of Raising Change. Raising Change helps organizations to raise capital to advance social change agendas, and helps individuals create Generosity Plans to change the world. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (November 1, 2010) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 8.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world. More than $550,000 was raised last March.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

These blogs raised $350,000 to pay rangers salaries and help save mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park. Says Paula, “Two years later, have over 70 blogs , donations have risen 4 fold, as has website visitation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What could I do to raise more money for you? It always makes me think about things in different ways.

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