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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

Amy Sample Ward

Just before noon, I decided to go online and see what those in my networks were sharing from their own celebrations or reflections, and immediately found the #GoSilent campaign from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). It pulled me in, and then everywhere I looked online I saw it was pulling in others! A simple commitment.

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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

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Salesforce’s nonprofit platform helps these organizations deliver services quickly and efficiently and measure the results. Effective Fundraising and Impact Measurement With Data. Organizations want to understand their stakeholders so they can provide better services, raise money, measure their impact, and expand their work.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Beyond the measurable performance impacts determined by testing, organizations must determine their own risk to employ ethical storytelling as a principle (because you believe it’s the right thing to do, regardless of impact) compared with using traditional response drivers that may maximize the revenue for your mission.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But collective action isn’t enough unless there is collective impact. How does one measure that? This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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So, there are lots of tangible results from what we are doing, and that's how we measure our success. 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.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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They displayed the kind of grit and optimism and resourcefulness that represents the very best of America. Well over 2,000 men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice - given their full measure of devotion. For the past two years, they've measured progress in the number of insurgents killed, roads built, or voters registered.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? The Global Fund tries to measure those results, not so much by our own standards, but by the standards that the groups that we support set for themselves. For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact.

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