Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

There she found her five children who had survived by the kindness of strangers. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." Honorata joined Women for Women International in August 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. There’s enough children impacted by the crisis in Syria to fill every professional baseball and professional football stadium in the US.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. He still is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2014

It sounds counter intuitive to ask people to donate $100 to ALS or make this goofy video and share on social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs. It develops and supports the profession of social entrepreneurship by acting as a venture capital firm for visionary change-makers around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2006

Hamid, the Founder and Director of New Horizon for Woman, was particularly moving: "To all sisters and to all friends, What you hear from the media is little of the chaotic situation in Iraq. Hamid" "Woman and Children" from Wafaring Stranger's Flickr Stream. No one feels safe anywhere. I have lost many relatives and friends.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Artivist Film Festival "'ARTIVIST' is the first international film festival and awards dedicated to addressing Human Rights, Children's Advocacy, Environmental Preservation, and Animal Rights. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

You just have to keep planting and just got to hope that other people will come along after you to water those seeds and to know that the trees our for our children's children. He's an ex-Marine, has two sons in Iraq, is a arch Republican and right winger. Is it children and literature? That's just the reality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. So, there are lots of tangible results from what we are doing, and that's how we measure our success. That's the story of Women for Women.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The other thing that's been really wonderful here is just the work culture and welcoming the kids in, whether it's the kids stopping by the office, or just curiosity about the life of parenting and our children. I think that sort of started a wave of panic about the future, and of feeling like, really thinking about him not making it.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. There were guards stationed everywhere throughout the camp and when she came back she knew that she wanted to do something for the children there.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These angry Americans raised their children for a different future. He explains that the United States is defending Taiwan from PRC aggression, like President Bush explained that the United States invaded Iraq to confiscate (never discovered) weapons of mass destruction many years before. Many more can see the writing on the wall.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

For every person who spent that spring self-soothing with Animal Crossing or struggling to manage small children , there was someone else out there thinking, “How can I take advantage of the chaos?” After a long military career, Rob took his talents to the private sector, managing logistics in Sudan, Colombia, and Iraq.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The networks, based in Tunisia and Iraq, appear to have been used to spread propaganda and influence elections. An estimated one in five children don’t have the technology they need for remote learning. I’d love to know how many people joined these groups after being recommended them to date. Joseph Menn / Reuters).

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