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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What I think is really key as Ivan points out is the lack of a generational divide in getting buy-in from the organization's leadership.

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Serious Games Initiative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Darfur is Dying game probably caught your attention. Today I just learned about the The Serious Games Initiative which is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. It caught mine as I'm interested in the role of play in problem-solving, what ever the scope of the problem.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general. That's how I got involved initially.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

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And as anti-gay leadership gets ready to take control of the House of Representatives, we'll need to bring every bit of that creativity and tenacity to bear." Steve has also been a consultant and strategist for the Save Darfur Coalition, American Cancer Society, U.S. You were part of a defining moment in the struggle for equality.

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