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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

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In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

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Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Haymakers for Hope: Haymakers Harriers. Offer incentives that align with your mission and feel authentic to your organization. .

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

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Time is money. After all, we’re going to be the ones who are holding the money soon. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. .” Stories have the power to bring together and to push apart –to distinguish and to extinguish.

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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Do you remember selling chocolate to raise money for your class field trip back in elementary school? For example, the Carlisle Family YMCA raised $83,607 to provide scholarships for children in need to participate in its programs by setting a goal and engaging individuals to raise money with personal and team fundraising pages.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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In that spirit, I'm making only three 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions Write each month to the woman from Sudan who I am sponsoring through Women for Women International. Although I enjoyed a lot of the things I did last year, I still felt like I was trying to do too much at one time--which is exhausting, and stressful.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. He was able to get some work digging pit latrines to put himself through one semester of his remaining high school education, and then he ran out of money. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. It had been bombed.

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

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mobile banking service is the most popular way to transfer money via. Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. According to him it costs too much money. For those nonprofits working on economic issues - In Kenya, the M-Pesa. This is important for Diaspora groups. They can also use it to.

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