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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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The Craig Newmark Beneblog Interview

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Q: What’s your advice to them on going local vs. national vs. global? A: Think globally, act locally is the cliche, but there's a lot to it.

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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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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because 3-4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year in America. Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Because America ranks 14th in reading, 17th in science, and 25th in math. Because family farms are good for America. Feeding America. Local Harvest.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because 3-4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year in America. Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Because America ranks 14th in reading, 17th in science, and 25th in math. Because family farms are good for America. Feeding America. Local Harvest.

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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).

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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. She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. 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.