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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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Write to the Nigerian woman I sponsored through Women for Women International each month. 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. Carry my reusable shopping bag with me almost all of the time.

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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 the first person that we sponsored to our High School Education Program, and he was able to complete his education. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. His campaign was successful.

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Building the World You Want: 6 Nonprofit Campaigns to Consider on International Day of Charity

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In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily grant the Trump administration's request to reinstate portions of its travel ban (blocking people from six countries - Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia - from entering the United States), CARE reignited their #BetterThanTheBan campaign. Get Involved. Twitter | Facebook.