Entries Tagged as 'advocacy'

Causecast

September 16th, 2008 by mikekarnj

Causecast has finally launched!  Causecast is a philanthropic site that brings a number of major figures in politics and entertainment together to pitch and bring attention to 10 non-profit compa...
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The Fight Continues

September 8th, 2008 by Ashley Friedman

"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." This quote is from ...
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B8 TONIGHT — Global Justice for Burma

August 8th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

It's 8808 and the games have begun! But today is also the 20th anniversary of the 8888 massacre in Burma, the largest protest to date against the military regime. The government in Burma is mak...
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Olympic Thunder

August 4th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

It's all over the place, the Times, Youtube, even flickr has a program for this most auspicious day 8808. Well we're stealing a little bit of the thunder over here too, or rather redirecting that gl...
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TI$A Tells You to “Vote Obama”

May 6th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

A new Obama video steals our attention from the polls for a visually delightful minute. Signed to Kanye's GOOD Music label, the vid's by TI$A of Sa-Ra and features cameoed and average American Obama s...
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GPF #4: Technology Serving Humanity

April 30th, 2008 by Abby Goldberg

After seeing the value in providing affordable tools that greatly empowered the reading disabled, social entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman was inspired to found a business that utilized technology to ser...
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ADB at the Global Philanthropy Forum

April 11th, 2008 by Abby Goldberg

I feel privileged and humbled by my day yesterday representing alldaybuffet at the Global Philanthropy Forum in Redwood City, CA. The Global Philanthropy Forum, or “GPF,” is a gathering of 500 ...
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