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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Build a school in Zimbabwe. Huge thanks to Steve Vick and Devin Thorpe for the content for this article which was adapted, with permission, from the Nonprofit Ally Podcast #067: The Quest for Funding. Help pay for Sally’s cancer treatment. The more specific, the better. The community cries out for that. They want to solve a problem.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read an edited transcript below. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco. In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. She was also awarded their annual Ida B.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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I had an opportunity to interview Paola for the Big Vision Podcast, and wanted to share the transcript with you. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention.