Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

The Largest Humanitarian Crisis of Our Time. Arguably, the refugee crisis is the largest humanitarian emergency of our time. That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. The organization was originally founded to fill a specific gap in immigrant and refugee services after Jane Leu, UpGlo's founder, took a tour of a poultry plant.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

After massive leaks of documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars and diplomatic cables from around the world, Wikileaks has demonstrated that it is a formidable threat to American legitimacy and power. We’ll take a look at the issues you most need to be concerned about one at a time." What does that mean for you?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

I spend time desperately trying to capture some of these insights myself, or give someone an action item (send me an email on that and I’ll do it). The goal of these devices is to provide educational and informational content to villages with limited resources: the player is loud enough to play for 20-40 people at one time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2014

I''ve found that often times a small change in perspective can make a huge change in what is possible for so many people, myself included. I think without a doubt one of the most common challenges leaders face is rising expectations with a limited amount of resources - especially time. Never just one thing at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

In deck above, you will see a graph that shows that the Ice Bucket Challenge had more search volume than other news such as Ferguson and Iraq during the last few weeks. This shows the importance of timing and playing off current events. Ice Bucket Challenge in winter time would not have worked. (6)

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

The Rucksack" -- a cutting-edge project that I led recently for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) -- is an especially powerful example of an organization using technology in a strategic and transformative way. That takes an ongoing commitment of time, energy, and resources in order to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Anyone and everyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, networks — in any amount to create a better world can be philanthropist. My annual charity:water September Campaign celebrates my anniversary, but it is part of a larger movement of people who care about providing clean water for the world.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 12, 2010

She told us about her husband’s injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq. As Fundraisers, we can spend a LOT of time worrying about upcoming grant deadlines or the newsletter we need to write or the major donor calls we need to make. So I suggest this: MAKE SURE to spend as much time as you can, each day, in the NOW. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money. But it was an exhilarating time. Citizen journalism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Positions are part-time, paid and start in June. Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Positions are part-time and paid. Hey all you do-good bloggers! To apply, go to [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause. By changing the presentation of Fanta’s story each time they shared it on their website and Facebook profile, PIH made the content feel fresh and engaging each time.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

That’s the day Iraq invaded Kuwait, an event that would start a domino effect that has lasted more than 20 years. I was just 19 at the time and not really sure what I wanted to do with my life. Take time today to say “thank you” to a veteran. Author: Kent Gilliam. I remember it like it was yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. The fundraising objective is to raise revenue for our Syrian Children’s Relief Fund in order to support our responses to ongoing and urgent needs as a result of the conflict. Even small donations can make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I'm not sure if that was the first game that gave and there are probably others since that time. GamesThatGive is going to have a huge influence on the charitable giving space for a few reasons: 1) People are already playing casual games, in big numbers, and for long periods of time. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The same study showed that among older Internet users who are members of online communities, 58 percent log in to their communities one or more times daily, compared to 47 percent of community members under 20. One obvious reason for the generational digital divide is timing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. Dara described him as a very provocative guy, pushing philanthropists to be comfortable with trying new things and possibly failing at times. These involve detection and interruption, identifying individuals involved in transmission, and changing social norms of the communities where it occurs.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2011

As you gear up to BBQ hop today, spend some time thinking about the brave folks who lost their lives protecting our country. Author: Emily Goodstein. Yes, I am feeling patriotic at the moment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Carry at least one cloth shopping bag with me at all times. What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

This fall, POGO partnered with the Government Accountability Project (GAP) to launch an online campaign in support of Gayl after he lost his security clearance for exposing the need for some lifesaving equipment needed in Iraq. We urged our constituents to contact the Secretary of Defense and voice their concerns.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Once upon a time, a fundraiser was super busy. In fact, she was so busy that when it came time to put together her year-end donation letter she was stumped. Time was short, so she settled on writing a factual summary of her nonprofit’s achievements. But developing a complete story that moves donors to give takes time.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

As a public foundation, we wanted to celebrate our tradition of entrepreneurial, high-impact grantmaking, and at the same time take advantage of the election year to elevate peace issues to the top of the list of priorities addressed by the presidential and congressional candidates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." In particular, it is important to think about what young women need to be thinking about in this moment of time.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If spanhidden'

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." Both times, the central square in which it was situated was well-trafficked with people enjoying art, hanging out with friends, and working.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. So whenever I can get time I try to do my artwork, so that keeps me really balanced. He still is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. She learned of the Zeynep Tufekci from a tweet by Ruby Sinreich who she has only met in person a handful of times, but follows her on Twitter. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And we’re going to try to save some time at the end for Q&A so don’t be shy. Even ran into each other a couple of times in Idaho, which was cool. You know, with some fundraising coming up, end of year fundraising, as you probably know, 30% of all the money given comes at this time of year. So here we go.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He shared his experience of posting to the blog twenty times per day, five days per week with a gazillion people following his moves. I followed the blog around the time of my travel to Venezuela in 2007 during which time the blog reported on the controversy surrounding the license of privately-held RCTV.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

FiftyCrows Foundation eschews these media politics and prioritizes social awareness by using arrestingly real, timely photographic images as a catalyst for education, cultural understanding and social action." Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. You get her picture.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Habbo’s InfoBus re: curbing violence against gay teens; developing understanding via the Matthew Shepard Foundation visiting ‘in-world’ or the War Child Int’l foundation partnership to focus in-world on kids impacted by violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda etc.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. Two years after MECA started sanctions were imposed on Iraq, which were ultimately were responsible for the deaths of half a million children under the age of 5.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. Science is political, and science museums have a hard time grappling with that fact. And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Other times it is collected to record the human rights environment in a given context, perhaps a conflict or post-conflict situation. Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul.

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