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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. Crisis Group :: @ CrisisGroup.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide. 4. [ Buy Kiva Cards ].

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How to better support girls globally?

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For example, our new report shows that 221 rape cases in Sudan against children have been recorded since 2024 began. Nations like Burkina Faso and Liberia are cutting the share of girls subjected to the practice over the last 30 years by half. But there is hope. An estimated 129 million girls are not in school, globally.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. Consider lived experience and amplify community voice. Recognize that in the traditional Organization-Donor-Constituent triad there is now a 4 th component: Community.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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There she found her five children who had survived by the kindness of strangers. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." Honorata joined Women for Women International in August 2004.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. The Vice-President made statements on national television expressing certainty about Iraq's nuclear weapons programs.

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