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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

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A lot of my to-do’s for next year regard sharing more of the amazing media assets we receive from HQ staffers who travel to the field, engaging our supporters by encouraging them to share their stories of sponsoring a woman through our programs and improving the way we share information about policy issues and current events.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. It had been bombed. He had no idea where his family went.

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

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Also, our collective attention span is evolving. In order to maximize a short attention span, it makes sense to marry visual and written content. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). Keep in mind that each company sets their own policy. For the average person, it’s less than 8 seconds. Need some inspiration?

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the entertainment industry. Demos is a national policy organization fighting for a fair economy and inclusive democracy.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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