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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PLEASE MAKE A RECURRING GIFT : I’ve donated to the GlobalGiving Earthquake Fund – the money will go to a vetted network of NGOS – and they have a donor who is matching all recurring gifts. You can donate here. I also donated to Save the Children and if you are an Orbitz customer they are matching donations.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Mike Del Ponte, Soma)

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I did microfinance consulting in Nepal. Selected promising ones, gave them funding connections, PR support, mentorship, all they needed to grow. Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. What brings you joy? What are you best at? What does the world need?

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. BB: So right now you work in Nepal and in Mexico? CH: Yes, we do.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

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In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you typically fund American projects? Two of my favorite projects, both of which hit on several key issues at once: Rescuing Young Girls from Bonded Labor in Nepal - this project buys a family in Nepal a pig to generate income so that they don't have to sell their daughter into servitude to pay for family expenses.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

Have Fun - Do Good

The Somaly Mam organization focuses on rehabilitation for girls who are victims of sex trafficking, and that's a really, really tough issue, but really important. We had a group that went to Kenya to visit BOMA Fund , and we went to Uganda to visit the BeadforLife program. In 2011, we're going to Nepal. It was wonderful.

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