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

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Instagram sponsored posts. But there was also something extremely odd about these “Sponsored” posts that Instagram. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. It has become increasingly important for nonprofits to lean to the visual. Extremely moving.

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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. It was being sponsored by the Genocide Intervention Network.

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