Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Nobody wants ads ruining their game experience, so we make sure they don’t. Only one advertiser sponsors a player’s game experiences per session – that means one corporate logo appears in the background of each game. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. The list of partner charities at launch include: US Fund for UNICEF.

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APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. As a small child I was profoundly affected by the glimpses I got into the injustices in the world so I became a human rights lawyer and spent a decade working in places like the Gaza Strip, Timor-Leste and Afghanistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

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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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Issues they care about. No, we give the issues we care about. So if they don’t care about our issue, we need to make sure we’re working to convince them to do that, right? And I can’t tell you how many times donors walked off the ice and just said, “Wow, that was the most amazing experience.

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MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. When she talks about the experience she says, "The rape in front of my daughter was more painful than when I was pinned on the cross." It is not a third world issue or a conflict issue. That's the story of Women for Women.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). It took a while for her to write back, but she did eventually, and told me about her experiences in the program. Tell us about it.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. They learned about reproductive health issues, such as their anatomy, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and child birth.

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APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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