Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Darfur Voices. Save Darfur Coalition. Team Darfur.

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MARCH 26, 2008

"[Y]ou don't necessarily have to solve a problem. I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. I don't have to solve the problem. Tell China to, "Extinguish the Flames of Genocide in Darfur."

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JUNE 9, 2007

It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next. serial activists???, s very easy for peopl to join, but there???s

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MAY 21, 2008

But what can you do about a problem that seems so overwhelming? Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. It is all so far away, it doesn't really affect me, it is very sad, but there are a lot of problems that affect me more.

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MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? If I didn’t have the power to do anything about the world’s problems, I would probably do the same. Many people avoid the news because most of it is really depressing.

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