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6 Tips for Writing A Winning Crowdfunding Story

The Modern Nonprofit

Do you help feed thousands of people in Rwanda? Please contact us if you want to learn about how our fundraising tools can help make your crowdfunding campaign a success. This guide will help you write a winning nonprofit crowdfunding story that’ll help you raise enough funds for your organization. What problem will you solve?

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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money. Each department needs to know when the others are contacting a prospect and what they are saying.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. Contact Emily. Photo by WhiteAfrican. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media.

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Spamming for Good is the Wrong Description of What Dr. Mani, Roger Carr, Jen Lemens, and Other Good Personal Fundraisers Really Do!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking about the personal approach the Jen Lemen used to raised for her mission to Rwanda - and she did it in record time -- that is the result of relationship building. Seth Godin says it another way: You can contact just about anyone you want. Seth Godin says it another way: You can contact just about anyone you want.

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

Yesterday I went to see Paul Rusesabagina speak, the man who inspired the movie, Hotel Rwanda. Obviously, putting a badge on your site is not going to end genocide in Darfur, or anywhere else, but I think it can raise awareness, which may motivate people to contact their government leaders and ask them to take action.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics."

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. Hopefully, the situation in the Congo resolves itself and doesn't cross the border into Rwanda, as it did in the '90s. CH: Yes, we do.