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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

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From responding to a global pandemic to standing up for equality and reacting to ongoing geopolitical forces, our nonprofits are leading the charge in bettering our communities. Since 2020, the global community has seen geopolitical uncertainty and a pandemic. Supporting the Global Community to Create a Lasting Impact.

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Mother's Day Donation Ideas

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Oxfam America Unwrapped and fund virtual gifts like a pair of school uniforms for $20 , or planting 50 trees for $30. * One of GlobalGiving's "Mom Knows Best" projects like Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso or Fast Tracking Education for Women and Older Girls in Afghanistan. *

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The Craig Newmark Beneblog Interview

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Examples like the TSA and EPA blogs. US Military Southern Command blog. White House blogs, open government initiatives. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. They're now allowed to do their jobs.

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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations. the rest of the world.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

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Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. Check out the Chasing the Flame blog for more details. Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). The examples are there, too.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. It was my own story of wanting to understand why my mother sent me to America all of a sudden in an arranged marriage that I document. So, there are lots of tangible results from what we are doing, and that's how we measure our success.