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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

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Noble points out that perhaps since so many more people are aware of what’s going on in Ukraine, it can spotlight other countries like Afghanistan and Syria, and compel people to help support their efforts in those countries, too. . 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’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change.

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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The organization works to educate.

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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. Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. "And we can all benefit from a strategic way to approach problems and decisions," he adds.

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Zen Under Fire: Big Vision Podcast Interview with Marianne Elliott

Have Fun - Do Good

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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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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