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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. Afghans were frantically trying to make their way through the chaos to the airport while collecting the critical information needed to support their request to leave the country. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan.

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How To Turn Your Smartphone Into A Movie Production Studio In 6 Easy Steps

Global Giving

They also allow you to choose the speed of fades, which is crucial to get right, especially if you create title or caption cards to give your audience more information. News and information is what Twitter is all about, and it moves fast! Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

As corporations become more global, their employees and customers are asking them to engage more with nonprofits in their communities. When you also consider that France is one of the oldest countries in the world and its nonprofit sector predates its for-profit sector , you can see the breadth of available information. LEARN MORE.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

Open Collective launched in 2015 to offer solutions to a basic need: informal groups, like collectives, have few places to put their shared money. We also partner with a decentralized global network of over 600 fiscal sponsors to support more than more than 7,000 groups that collectively raise over $35 million a year.

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Impact and Interoperability: How Technology Powers Collaboration

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

It aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet in to the information age. Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? ” that explains what Internet.org aims to do and how it aims to do it. Fundraising.

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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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