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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

I know that I can make a difference for positive change, and am learning that Traveling Postcards might be the vehicle for making that change. How can Have Fun, Do Good readers get involved with Traveling Postcards? Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone. Learn more! We have come a long way!

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Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good

Have Fun - Do Good

We write and teach what we want to learn, at least, I do. One of the reasons I keep this blog is to help me figure out how to have fun, and do good, and o ne of the ways I learn is by example, so I've asked a handful of bloggers from my Have Fun, Do Good blogroll to share how they have fun and do good.

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Zen Under Fire: Big Vision Podcast Interview with Marianne Elliott

Have Fun - Do Good

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. All those tweets about what you had for breakfast that everyone makes fun of? Learning how to harness the power of the cloud will mark the difference between a modest success and overwhelming one.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

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I’m really excited to learn from you, Tom. So in format for today, part of this is going to be educational, going to hopefully learn some things you haven’t learned before, and part of it’s definitely going to be strategic. that’s just life. He’s speaking at conferences, doing webinars.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. Another group is discussing their legal rights, and another group is learning organic farming. Another group is learning how to make tiles or bricks.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

Have Fun - Do Good

Here is a small excerpt from Honorata's story from the Women for Women International site : "It was in 2002 that the world turned upside down and Honorata lost the signs of a "true and nice life" that she and her husband had built. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." She was captured and tortured by the armed militias.

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