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The Save Darfur Coalition’s "Be A Voice For Darfur" - A Stellar Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Most importantly, you can influence others to stand up and be a voice for Darfur.

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Train for Humanity is looking for new participants!

Amy Sample Ward

Phase two will run for six months from March to August 2009 and we are asking potential participants to make a commitment to raising at least one thousand dollars. All funds from phase two will go directly toward supporting the Darfur Peace & Development Organization’s (DPDO) school project. Want to learn more and get involved?

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander.

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Not On Our Watch: The Least Depressing Book About Darfur You'll Ever Read

Have Fun - Do Good

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. Raise awareness 2. Raise funds 3. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast has to say.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January. As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. olympics China human rights Tibet Burma Darfur Claire of Free Aung San Suu Kyi!

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

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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