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MARCH 4, 2011

This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. We've done this numerous times and it's taken different forms.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

One of my longtime flickr contacts, an artist named Darlene, just sent me a note that when her paycheck arrives, 10% is going to the Sharing Foundation. Mata, over at Blogher, wrote a terrific post called " Three Ways you can simply change the world for the better. OMG, I can't believe this generosity.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Through coaching, workshops and a variety of online events, Jamie helps women find the confidence and courage to discover and express their creative spirit, whether that means exploring their artistic self, or bringing more of their creative capacity to their life and business.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog. 20 Twitter Hashtags for Social Entrepreneurs, Nonprofits and Activists on SocialEarth.

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APRIL 7, 2009

As many of you know, in addition to writing for Have Fun * Do Good, I am also a Contributing Editor, with Beth Kanter , for the Social Change and Nonprofit section of BlogHer. Many of my coaching clients are artists, I worked for six years in arts education at Streetside Stories , and I produce the Arts and Healing Podcast.

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MAY 16, 2012

Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Feeding people.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2006

While surfing for some more BlogHers to add to the Nonprofit and NGO BlogHer blogroll, I came across the REAL hot 100: See How Hot Smart Can Be. The REAL hot 100 is a list featuring young women from around the country who are breaking barriers, fighting stereotypes, and making a difference in their communities or the nation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I have a couple of friends, artists Richard Lange and Judith Selby Lange, who scour the beach regularly for plastic trash to include in their art projects. For example, instead of getting depressed when I stumbled upon the fact that chewing gum is made from plastic (polyvinyl acetate, to be precise), I felt like I had made a big score.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. You can find a store near you that sells Be Sweet products here , and if you are a knitter, they've posted a free pattern. If you have more ideas for do-good gifts, please post them here.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Jennifer is a certified coach, writer, artist, yogini, and the founder of Artizen Coaching. This month, I'll be picking up the series again with new posts by Desiree Adaway , Emily Goligoski , Jamie Ridler , Jennifer Lee , Jennifer Louden , Mary Mulliken , Tara Sophia Mohr , and Wendy Harman.

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MAY 2, 2008

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. Later, I used it to summarize the wisdom that came out of the community discussion related to how artists and arts organizations can use the web.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

You can email me your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic.

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AUGUST 29, 2006

Here are some BlogHers who are giving back through volunteering, or using their blog to advertise do * good opportunities: Rocks in My Dryer puts the word out for Operation Special Edition , a program that provides volunteer doulas for pregnant women whose husbands or partners are deployed when they give birth.

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APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Cross-posted from BlogHer. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. Going to NYC with the hubs to see friends, family, and to go to the BlogHer Conference. What’s your next step? Prompt by Scott Belsky ).

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. The organization's founder, Brande Jackson, took the time to answer my Solutionary Women e-interview questions.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I was first introduced to the concept of the gift economy and pay it forward many years ago when I was the community builder for a first generation online network for artists, called ArtsWire. So, the irony of when I won $500 shopping spree from Bill Me Later at the BlogHer Conference in Boston. But, what would I buy?

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JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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JUNE 30, 2007

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. I sort of started my journey wanting to be an artist, and my mother told me I was too smart for art. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. Can I just see?

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