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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

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Candid’s mission is to get grantmakers and nonprofits the information you need to do good. In other, more rare occasions – such as the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 – we’ve felt compelled to proactively take action based on changing external circumstances. But we recognize that data can also be used to do harm.

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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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Jayne Cravens to Serve as Advisor to UN program in Afghanistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just received word that Jayne is off to Afghanistan at the end of February 2007, to serve as Communication and Reporting Advisor for the United Nation's National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP), part of UNDP. I'll be in Afghanistan through part of August." You can follow her adventures in Afghanistan on her blog.

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4 Tips for Using Facebook Fundraising for Year-End Giving

Achieve

What personal information is available to the nonprofit about donors or users that start fundraisers? So, share information about your mission statement, values, tips to raise funds successfully, and photos of the work your organization does. to thanking donors on Facebook, such as: Make the most of the information available to you.

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Chao Guo is Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

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. In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country.

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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 were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. The Open Collective Idea.

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