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Children's Birthday Parties with a Purpose

Have Fun - Do Good

I liked a couple party ideas from their site: A treasure hunt where everything the guests find is donated to a children's hospital. A green themed party where guests can plant seeds to take home and grow. Here are more ideas from the blogosphere: The Mom Salon writes about ECHOage: Teaching Children About Giving Back.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even better, the green laptops would match the video blogging kits that Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman brought over the month before I brought the same kits to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children. TechSoup Blog also reports.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. 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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New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

safety issues and what parents should know about their children's media use. I'm doing a bit of research on this topic for BlogHer for Earth Day that will encourage community members to create "green themed" videos with their kids.

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Why You Didn't Hear About Cyclone Ivan's Destruction in Madagascar and How To Help Support Relief Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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