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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Your corporate partners get more positive publicity for their businesses, while your nonprofit receives valuable auction packages for your event. Choose intriguing warm-weather locations like Belize, Jamaica, Australia, or Greece. It’s a win-win relationship!

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The Best Nonprofit Social Media Campaigns of 2017

NonProfit Hub

Volunteers interviewed nine Syrian refugees who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece about their lives before they left Syria. Each of their stories was then illustrated on used life jackets, taken from the beaches of Greece where refugees arrive. Put a new twist on an old tradition and shape it in a way that aligns with your mission.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

She took an active role in the independence movement aimed at relinquishing Ottoman rule over Greec e, investing her own fortune into securing arms, ships, and otherwise equipping the soldiers under her command. Laskarina Bouboulina. Laskarina Bouboulina was a naval commander and heroine of Greek history.

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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

Tech Soup

In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If Image 2 : Wikimedia / Public Domain. If you knew all eight, go buy yourself a cookie!). …" To our partners in Turkey, welcome aboard, and we're excited to see you change the world!

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Ancient Greece 2.0: Arts Participation before the Industrial Age

Museum 2.0

In the process opportunities for public discourse about the arts and the attendant opportunity for formulating and exchanging sets of opinions about the arts event itself were, for the most part, lost. By the early twentieth century people of all social classes were expected to treat arts events as private experiences.

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