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Best Practices for Securing Data in Humanitarian Crisis Situations

Saleforce Nonprofit

The unfolding crisis in Afghanistan is a stark reminder that many Salesforce.org nonprofit customers often work in fragile environments. Following these best practices will help increase awareness of the security tools and features that can be used to minimize the risk to vulnerable people. In a Crisis, Reducing Risk Enhances Impact.

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

Qgiv

It represents people positively, in a way that feels true and empowering to them.” It paints a complete picture of the people you serve and the opportunities they can capitalize on with some help from within their community. These guidelines can apply to all sectors of the nonprofit landscape: Use “person-first” language.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many cool people attend, and the quality of the conversations is terrific. These are all folks who believe in technology and have a certain level of common language and understanding (even though the range of people is pretty amazing). That's why conversations can cut right to the issue that people are debating.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

I love referring people to you. And I’m guessing people want me to pipe down. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

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. They are not people who have never seen pain and have not triumphed from it. That's the story of Women for Women.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: I think one of the things that make the Global Fund special is how women can submit grants, the lack of bureaucracy involved, and maybe you can talk a little bit about how you choose the people who are funded. Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format.

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