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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

Connection Cafe

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. There’s an app for that!

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

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We had all these amazing volunteers and food trucks and chefs who had managed their own businesses but lost so much after the hurricane and decided that they wanted to offer their time and resources to WCK. We had over 20,000 volunteers in Puerto Rico alone, most of whom were Puerto Ricans who had been impacted by the hurricane themselves.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

Have Fun - Do Good

We do that by showing up at auto shows and giving voice to the public, and you know just the old fashioned stand out there with your banners and get heard, and get heard by the media and be the dissenting voice that calls out their green-washing and that makes it clear that there's a lot more that these companies could be doing.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5 Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute.

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. Make your voice heard. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. Make your voice heard. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. I really wanted to support people to be on the mic whose voices are often silenced in our society, and the people who are most impacted by poverty and environmental racism and some of those things we've talked about.

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