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24 Hours for Darfur User-Generated Video Campaign

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24 Hours for Darfur , a grassroots video advocacy campaign dedicated to ending the conflict in Darfur and promoting peace and security for the people living there. The goal is to collect thousands of personal video appeals from people all over the world. You can learn more about Darfur at the website's education section.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

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Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. Ryan of Riches for Good wrote, "My resolution isn't specific to 2008, but I made it this year: My goal is to help at least 1 million people out of extreme poverty, or $1-per-day poverty, during my lifetime." Photo by me.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

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A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people. Actress and activist Mia Farrow will discuss and answer questions about the worsening situation in Darfur and neighboring Chad at a virtual press event in Second Life. There's YouTube video here.

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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

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For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. So our role wasn't to try to convince people to become active, but to give them effective tools, like our congressional scorecard and 1-800-GENOCIDE hotline, to take action on a regular basis.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now.

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

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Her goal is to inspire at least 2,000 people to commit to the 29-Day Giving Challenge by September 29, 2008. I donated to a Relief International health clinic in the Zam Zam refugee camp in Darfur that trains indigenous doctors, midwives, and community health workers. As of this writing, 128 people have joined.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

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According to Liz Strauss, of the Successful Blog , in the week since his launch, he has received 15,000 hits and raised over $3,000 towards his goal from 123 contributors. Stop the genocide in Darfur, that???d Paul has 8wishes - he hopes to earn $1 million so that he can give 100 kids each $10,000 to use to go to college. Big or small.it