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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. Then come back here. But there's strategy involved and a tool to help you execute it.

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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Tech Soup

For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan. Pictures, videos, and text to help share your story, and one clear ask. People often organize into teams to participate and raise funds, and physical action is required. Find a hero.

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Doctors without Borders Podcast Creates Connection

Have Fun - Do Good

It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My I just listened to the first podcast. It is the direct connection that is key.

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

Tech Soup

Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. Nonprofits in the developed world can also learn a lot from. what is happening elsewhere. So w hat else can you do with a mobile? Short Message Service (SMS). Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). MP3 player. Print pictures. Get directions. Scan in a business card.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. Staying Alive: Viral Video - preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS -- look for it in August. College students have led the fight on issues. Activism has evolved beyond sit-ins. How can we take it into the digital world. Darfur Is Dying was the result. First person pickers.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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The Genocide Intervention Network has a good list of 10 Ways You Can Take Action Today including writing to elected officials, divesting from Sudan, holding an awareness raising event, and creating a video for 24 Hours for Darfur. But why aren't more people doing these things? Why isn't being anti-genocide as "popular" as being green?

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Year-End Giving Prep: 21 FAQs Answered by Fundraising Experts

Connection Cafe

Give the new supporter ways to get involved like volunteering, taking a tour or watching a video. He has travelled to South Sudan, and extensively across Canada on behalf of War Child. Thank the donor for the in-kind donation. Explain how in-kind gifts make an impact by telling a story. Danielle .

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