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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

CARE’s humanitarian efforts inside Ukraine have piqued some interest from corporate sponsors looking at what they can do next in countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, and Moldova – all places where the refugee crisis may linger. Success Story: Creating an Omnichannel Marketing Experience with Teach For America.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see it in so many places, and it’s working. I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon. It took place about three weeks after my sniper partner, Clay Hunt, took his own life. Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Then, I moved into the world of teaching.

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Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good

Have Fun - Do Good

We write and teach what we want to learn, at least, I do. She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. The first guest post is by Marianne Elliott. Marianne is a change-maker, a human rights advocate, a yoga teacher and a writer. You can follow her on Twitter at @zenpeacekeeper.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

She goes through an intensive training program in an educational track, that teaches her about her rights as a woman in health, economy, society, and politics, among other things. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women. laughs] One is A.)

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

You can see the ripples kind of spreading out, but you don't know whether one ripple caused a tadpole to swim a different direction, you don't know whether a bird flew away because the ripples made it change its mind, you don't know whether a flower that might not have grown in that place now is growing in that place.

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