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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If anything, I have been encouraged to develop a solid social media strategy with help from our Director of Marketing, as well as continued support from my fellow marketing staff here. I am very lucky to work at an organization that values social media, and have never received push-back regarding investing my time and efforts there.

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. When asked about his organization’s involvement with Instagram, Paull Young, Digital Director at charity:water, actually told us that his ad was donated, as a part of a test case with Instagram. Incredible.

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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. April 10 Call President Bush at 1-800-GENOCIDE and ask the White House to keep its promise by implementing the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act (SADA).

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia.

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Doctors without Borders Podcast Creates Connection

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It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My I just listened to the first podcast.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. And, the most committed and dynamic folks from that crowd may have the chance to serve on our board of directors. If you know someone like that, send her (or him) my way, too!

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