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UNICEF Shares 4 Ways to Reverse COVID-19’s Impact on Children

Saleforce Nonprofit

While great challenges lie ahead, UNICEF shares four calls to action to respond to and recover from COVID-19: 1. Nur Zannat, 6, holds a paper folding fan she crafted in a UNICEF-supported learning centre in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo credit: UNICEF. Protect children from deadly but treatable diseases.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

We then brainstormed solutions that could address the most prominent challenges, and explored ideas that responded to provocations like: What are ways of enabling farmers to feel confident in any guidance provided to take action on day-to-day needs? Deputy Director Hub; Program Development and Quality Assurance, Action Against Hunger.

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Benetech Analyzes Key Bangladeshi Human Rights Data

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In my recent blog postings, I documented personal impressions during my recent trip to Bangladesh. Silva's analysis presented in the report, " Judge, Jury, and Death: Torture and Executions by Bangladesh's Elite Security Force." This post takes a look at how Benetech is helping to document human rights abuses in that country.

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BRAC

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees. Abed has accomplished an incredible amount since founding BRAC more than 30 years ago, but he is charging forward with expansion both inside and outside of Bangladesh.

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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   Share Blog Action Day posts in Google Reader.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spend time desperately trying to capture some of these insights myself, or give someone an action item (send me an email on that and I’ll do it). Every table conversation brings a new perspective and a new idea: whether it’s new knowledge, a great contact or a new extension to the idea under discussion. Today was an example of this.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Service (Paul Schmitz, Soma and Rachael Chong, Catchafire)

NTEN

There are many people that you wouldn''t have expected would become leaders, including myself Creating a new definition of leadership: 1) an action that many people take 2) leaders take responsibility 3) values At Public Allies, we use a construct pulled from the Army''s leadership model: Be, Know, Do. Be: who am I as a leader?

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