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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

Its website has a feature that allows you to create a “birthday campaign”, a program in which friends can donate to your personal online fundraiser in lieu of gifts. The NGO I came across Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) through charity: water’s birthday campaigns.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share Why They Love What They Do

Hearpreneur

Currently I’m hitchhiking and train jumping around the country to campaign for others to join in the adventure and journey to help create the book with me. We’re one of the only tech social enterprises in Zambia, where 2 million youth are unemployed. Photo Credit: Dimitri Zakharov.

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Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

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Use repetition of key benefits or value proposition in your sales copy and ad campaigns many times. Effective advertising and political campaigns do that (“Geico can save you 15% or more …”). The second version talked about a particular girl in Zambia, Rokia, who was starving. Three times is a common number.

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