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NonProfit Blog Posts

March 12, 2010 - 04:51

The Good Capitalist Party: SxSW

South by Southwest (SxSW), the annual social media and cause festival that brings thousands to Austin, Texas, each spring, is offering something new this year for social entrepreneurs and other ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:51

East Timor President Tells UN: “Only people still paying for Holocaust not of their making are the Palestinians”

When Nobel Laureate President Jose Ramos-Horta of Timor Leste addressed the UN Human Rights Council today, no could have predicted the shocking things he would say in the closing of his ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

Ukraine: “Bandera Bashing Déjà Vu”

On Feb. 25, the European Parliament adopted a resolution, in which, among other things, it called on “the new Ukrainian leadership” to “reconsider” the posthumous award granted to Stepan Bandera a ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

A Kiva Fellowship in Liberia

My first thought upon arrival in Monrovia, Liberia, in August 2009 for my Kiva Fellowship was, “Wow, such colors and amazing stories! I should make a movie for those who aren’t as lucky as I am to ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

Ukraine: “Why So Little Internet”?

Siberian Light looks at the BBC News “infographic about internet access in Europe” and wonders “why a relatively authoritarian country like Belarus has managed to get more than 1/3rd of its people ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

Microfinance Open Book blog: A Little More History on Pearl and Grameen

Recently I received this interesting letter, shared with permission. It adds background to my post on Pearl, Yunus, and History: On March 7, 2010, Syed Zahirul Abedin zahirul64@gmail.com wrote to ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

CSR Minute March 11, 2010: Disney's Volunteer Program; Fundraising "Thons" Finance Charity

This is a cross posting from 3BLMedia.com The Disney Company is sponsoring a volunteer program, “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day.” Each person who signs up to confirm a specific date and time to ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

$10 to SPCA

On my blog I'm sharing how I'm giving $10 a day (on Day 20 so far) and Christine Eggers invited me to post here, too. At the moment I'm giving along with two friends also contributing $10 each, a ...
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March 12, 2010 - 04:50

Early Bird Registration for Microfinance USA Conference ends this Monday!

Kiva is a presenting sponsor of the Microfinance USA Conference this year. The conference is in San Francisco on May 20th-21st at the Westin and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Take advantage of ...
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March 12, 2010 - 03:21

Uplink: 33 – Jo Kaybryn on HIV/AIDS

In this edition of the podcast I catch up with Jo Kaybryn, Director of Policy for Plurpol, an innovative global consultancy, servicing governments, international civil society and businesses. They ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:23

Internships - Decision and Policy Analysis Program

Organization: Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Location: Cali, CO Opportunity for internships and jobs for recent graduates to gain international experience The Decision and Policy Analysis ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:23

Burmese Refugees Starving to Death – Act Now

PHR investigator Parveen Parmar, MD examines a 25-year-old refugee at Kutupalong unofficial camp. He suffers from chronic malnutrition and had not eaten any food for two days: “Now I am dying. No ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:23

Haiti and governance

The article “Haiti’s Impossible Dream: Good Governance” published in the Saturday’s Globe and Mail discusses Haiti’s government and its big role or rather lack of it in rebuilding Haiti. While the ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:23

Philanthropy Daily Digest

VPP | Chairman's Corner: 'Social Outcomes': Missing the Forest for the Trees? After his essay last month in which he worried that many efforts to measure nonprofit results have gone far off ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:23

NASAGA 2010 conference: call for papers

The North American Simulation and Gaming Association has released a call for papers for its October 2010 conference: NASAGA 2010 Conference: A Chance for Knowledge, Skills and Learning October ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:22

Guide to CR and Peace Related Events in Washington, DC

Finding events specifically related to conflict resolution or peace building can be somewhat laborious. This is because, as we all know, there are relatively few organizations that specifically ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:22

We've tidied up the website

Before and after images of the newly refreshed website It's been not quite a year since we redesigned MercyCorps.org using Drupal. I've been watching the new design in action for the last 11 ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:22

Cause of the Week: A City Arts Council Rides the Tech Edge

When I think of nonprofits, my mind doesn't automatically turn to government entities. But when Siobhan O'Brien Olson, chair of the marketing committee of The Arts Council of Winston-Salem & ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:22

Thank You Kansas City

On 20 February, LIA and a legion of dedicated volunteers from Kansas hosted a tremendous dinner to benefit the work of LIA (check out our Facebook page to see an album dedicated to pictures from ...
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March 12, 2010 - 02:20

Changing Lives One Page at a Time

Guest blogger Stacy Conway is the marketing and communications manager for the Pi Beta Phi Foundation. Even before my daughter was born, I read to her. I remember propping up myself in bed, ...
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