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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

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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. Tell China to, "Extinguish the Flames of Genocide in Darfur." Check out Dave Eggers' recent Op -Ed in the New York Times , "Dropping the Torch" about the event.

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How Can Changebloggers Make a Greater Impact Online and Offline?

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October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. Here are a few examples of some month-long and two-week long online events: Maw Books Blog ran a Blogging and Reading for Darfur campaign last month. She read 31 books and raised $1,1136.60.

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

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Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Buy a Song, Support a Cause

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Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. It also raised money for famine relief in Africa. raises money for Amnesty's Darfur work. Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th to raise money for Red Hot , an organization, "dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture."

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

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Perhaps it is because my generation was raised reading The Diary of Anne Frank and watching dozens of movies about the Holocaust. As part of the anti-genocide moment, we raise both money and political will for civilian protection initiatives around the world. One of the world's challenges that disturbs me the most is genocide.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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See the New York Times coverage here. Project Agape, a company that built the first causes application for Facebook, has surpassed 1 million users to their application and raised over $100,000 — in about 1 month. Just to make you feel a little sick, the CEO of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg and he is 23 years old.

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5 Reasons This Will Be The Best #BBCON Ever

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Kristof is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. NEW People’s Choice: Mission in Action Award: Every cause has a story. Nicholas and Ashley will be helping us open and close this year’s #bbcon with a major bang.

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