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Foko Madagascar: It Takes A Village To Raise An Idea

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She has put her knowledge to work for sustainable development on the ground in Madagascar when interning for the local municipality and focusing on improving the living conditions of the country's poorest neighborhoods. The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices. Environmental program.

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." Cross-posted from BlogHer. People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

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Examples: Neighborhoods Against Irresponsible Logging (NAIL): When planners distributed a confusing and hard-to-understand map, many people in Rebecca’s local community didn’t “get&# what kind of logging plan was really in store. Raising awareness and providing local communities a venue for sharing their story.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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Of course, because their farms are small and because historically they've gotten a really low price from the local coffee buyers, called coyotes in Latin America, these farmers are all poor. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

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I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. The strong community vibe in the room was inspiring and comfortable.

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Empowering Women Bloggers

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Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. Personal Politics & News Race & Ethnicity Religion & Spirituality Research & Academia Sex & Relationships Technology & Web Travel & Recreation World In addition, they have blogrolls of women bloghers in each category.

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