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Conversations on Hispanic Heritage Month

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Be open-minded and ask questions, but also be supportive and respectful. My mom was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and my dad was born and raised in Peru. Growing up, I visited Peru a couple of times, and in college, I did an exchange program there and stayed with my grandparents for a whole semester. Luisa Chil, Sr.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. What gave me joy? What should I let go of? This year I was able to look at what I wrote last year.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for Latin American NGOs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. We also looked at a campaign strategy developed by the office in Peru called Nofilter and looked at ways to incorporate some of the takeaways from the Networked Nonprofit workshop.

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The value of attending Gnomedex: Priceless

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Danny Sullivan's " Search Meets Real Life " was absolutely brilliant -- particularly how demonstrated what information is out there and how he called people in the audience on his cell phone while asking them personal questions and displaying some of the information about them freely available on the Internet. All in all.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

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The advice/questions: Do most people have and know how to use video cameras to post video replies? The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. Patrick notes that most of the sites' users are under 30 and they know how to use their cameras.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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We use journalism because it is a very empowering profession, enabling people to become the "question askers" in their societies. Our office in Kigali is sort of in a state of question right now. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. What is the question you wish people would ask you?

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

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It opened up the question of what roles chefs can play in international development. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. Once there, he started doing what he does best -- cook.