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Care2's Community Impacts Global Change

Care2

The Care2 community’s signatures not only highlighted causes, but also had a direct impact on global issues including the European Union’s vote to ban seal products, the passing of the American Clean Energy Security Act and the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea. ?

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

Achieve

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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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

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Tensions with North Korea. 2017 Millennial Impact Report. To download this year’s Millennial Impact Report or previous years’ reports, please visit. 2017 is a year that has witnessed some of the darkest moments and events in our country in decades: Immigration and travel bans. The horror of Charlottesville. If Achieve’s.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

When I showed Google Earth for the first time to my dad on an iPad, the first thing he did was to look for the house he grew up in, deep in North Korea, having left it behind some 60 years ago during the Korean War. He has worked in Alexandria, Korea, Vietnam, and currently Seattle.

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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 know that the carbon impact of all that travel is bad for the planet, and the personal impact of all that travel is bad on our bodies. Of course, being in proximity to North Korea, one of the most dire countries in terms of respect for human rights, meant that this topic came up frequently. Why do I do it?

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