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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

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When I was leading fundraising efforts at a national nonprofit, the focus of everything I did was the individual donor. Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. This blog was originally published on. Philantopic. on January 31, 2015.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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As The Daily Beast senior correspondent for national security and politics Josh Rogin put it : Movements.org "seeks to put activists in closed societies in touch with skilled people in the free world who can help them. It's crowdsourcing for human rights." He also noted: "One big challenge will be multiple languages.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education.

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