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Case Study: How One Organization Raised over $500K through Millennials

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LiNK (Liberty in North Korea). is a human rights organization that physically rescues North Korean refugees and helps resettle them in South Korea or the United States so they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments as a result of illegally immigrating.

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The Future of Fundraising Is Peer-to-Peer

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Liberty in North Korea. , or LiNK, an organization based in California that works to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees. And this is as true for those who work in higher education as it is for those who raise funds for frontline service providers. One of them involved. In fact, Achieve recently teamed up with the.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

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David Keyes is very clear that the mission of Movements.org and in fact all of the Advancing Human Rights programs is to empower human rights activists in closed societies like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Keyes says, "The more people that come to the site and use it, the more we learn."

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!)

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