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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Came to the idea that if people play together, they tend not to think of people as different nationalities. Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. "Americans aren't that bad as you play with them."

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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percent from the mid-’70s to the mid-’90s, according to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. … …Last year, Princeton University held a conference at which List, Croson, Andreoni and others who study charitable giving got together with fund-raisers from Africare, the National MS Society and elsewhere.

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

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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. His campaign was successful.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

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Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal. But here at M+R, we've seen hard data contradict brilliant theories often enough to know that testing is essential, so we put personal stories to the test for a major national health organization. Stories mirror human thought. This test isn't an anomaly.

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Martin Luther King Day - Let Freedom Ring

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Amazingly powerful insights on America and our role building this nation. -- Martin Luther King Day, 2010 Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember when I discovered my own racism.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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In the US context, we are focused on building an awareness of issues involved in genocide and post-conflict peacebuilding as well as connecting American youth to our partners in other parts of the globe to plug them into cross-national, cross-cultural collaboration.

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