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Just Announced: The 2021 Classy Awards Finalists

Classy

Our goal is to shine a spotlight on the new strategies, creative thinking, and ideas that illustrate the potential to move the needle on some of our major issues. . They work around the globe, from San Diego to Sudan, and represent programs of all sizes. Lack of access to quality education . Wage and opportunity gaps. Systemic racism.

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The Reckoning

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the top issues that came out during our recent strategy meeting was the team's eagerness to hear about other projects. The movie is excellent: it does a good job of covering the issues around the establishment of the court and its early years including its earliest cases.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A lot of my to-do’s for next year regard sharing more of the amazing media assets we receive from HQ staffers who travel to the field, engaging our supporters by encouraging them to share their stories of sponsoring a woman through our programs and improving the way we share information about policy issues and current events.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the case of the LA Times article, which was about the need for divestment from Sudan, we had our members specifically email the article to a vice-president at Fidelity, which has a lot of investments in Sudan-linked business firms.

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Do What You Can: National Week of Action for Darfur April 6-13

Have Fun - Do Good

One of the reasons I think the issue of genocide in Darfur, and in other places, hasn't reached the mainstream consciousness, is that it is hard to find actions that make concerned citizens feel like they are having an impact. I don't have to solve the problem. I just have to do what I can.

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How to Create, Manage and Evolve Your Nonprofit Blog

NTEN

For example, one day I woke up and checked my email to find a proposed blog entry from a colleague in South Sudan — he'd written a poem, a very personal reflection about looking at the sunrise and farmers going out to their fields as he headed to work. Did I ever anticipate a poem? Certainly not.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings. increase in a.

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