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We need to have a serious talk about character limits on grant applications

Nonprofit AF

Hi everyone, with the collapse of the Afghanistan government, the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and the worsening pandemic, you might.

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

Amy Sample Ward

Just before noon, I decided to go online and see what those in my networks were sharing from their own celebrations or reflections, and immediately found the #GoSilent campaign from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). It pulled me in, and then everywhere I looked online I saw it was pulling in others! A simple commitment.

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Tips for Donors on Afghanistan's Complex Humanitarian Emergency

Tech Soup Blog

This post is republished with permission from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. It was originally published on August 20. See CDP's What We're Watching page for news on the status of disasters worldwide, along with relevant disaster-related media coverage.

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New members appointed to the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector

Charity Village

New Co-Chair: Sheherazade Hirji, former Resident Representative, Aga Khan Development Network, Afghanistan, Bruce MacDonald, President & […]. The post New members appointed to the Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Google Wallet Ushers in a New Era in Online and Mobile Fundraising for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, on this #FundraisingFriday when I was searching for a nonprofit to donate to that educates girls in Afghanistan in honor of Malala Yousafzai , I was thrilled to come across Barakat – a nonprofit that runs two schools for girls in Afghanistan and is pioneering the use of Google Wallet for online fundraising: 1.

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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. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan. I was heartbroken by what was happening in Afghanistan. and coalition forces withdrew their troops, Afghan allies that served alongside the U.S. Veterans Called to Duty Digitally. Government.

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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. By: Rakesh Bharania, Director, Humanitarian Impact Data, Salesforce.org and Alex Parker, Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org. Here are some tips for finding and managing that user data and content.

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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

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. .

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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Known for her efforts to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan, Zarifa experienced an untenable career in politics. In July 2018, at the of 26, Zarifa became one of the youngest mayors and as such emerged as a role model to women in Afghanistan. Zarifa Ghafari is an Afghan activist, politician and entrepreneur.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. Autism Speaks :: @ AustismSpeaks. Campaign to End Obesity :: @ ToEndObesity. Change the Equation :: @ ChangeEquation. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence :: @ CSGV. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA.

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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

sgEngage

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. Organizations may react differently to the same situation, something Candid learned in our response to the situation in Afghanistan.

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10,000 Nonprofits On Twitter!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their first project is a secondary school for 1,200 girls in Afghanistan where the female literacy rate is only 12%. I worked for a number of years in international development and it’s true when they say “Empower Women – Change the World.&#. Also known as Project Wonkhai, the school opened it’s doors in March 2009.

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Get 34 Tips For Making A Memorable Nonprofit Video

Global Giving

Featured Photo: Sahar Foundation provides computer education to girls in Afghanistan. The post Get 34 Tips For Making A Memorable Nonprofit Video appeared first on Learn - GlobalGiving.

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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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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Credit: GOLEES.

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UNICEF Shares 4 Ways to Reverse COVID-19’s Impact on Children

Saleforce Nonprofit

Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. . • Invest in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. Photo credit: UNICEF. Take urgent action to protect children from climate change and slow the devastating rise in global temperatures.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide.

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A Day Trip the Hague, Netherlands: International City of Peace and Justice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It was closing time in the Hague and I was too late to the Oxfam Novib office to meet anyone, but a poster in the window reminds us all to remember Afghanistan one of the poorest countries in the world, affected by decades of conflict and disasters. . A photo posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Oct 17, 2016 at 8:13am PDT.

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The Future Today: Empowering youth via social media

Amy Sample Ward

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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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

It combines government data, public information, and other reliable records to give the most comprehensive virtual map of nonprofits from Afghanistan to Venezuela. GlobalGiving Atlas includes everything from government ID numbers, mission statements, and organization financials.

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#mygivingstory: Resources and Best Practices for @GivingTuesday Nonprofit Storytelling

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. I would urge you to take a few minutes to view this video and see what you can learn nonprofit storytelling.

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Fab Lab and Do-It-Yourself Infrastructure Building

Tech Soup Blog

Over the past 18 months or so, the antennas have been appearing around Jalalabad , a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. It wasn't created by a government either, but it could become the new symbol of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan and around the world. These may not be the most sophisticated antennas, but they work.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. As a small child I was profoundly affected by the glimpses I got into the injustices in the world so I became a human rights lawyer and spent a decade working in places like the Gaza Strip, Timor-Leste and Afghanistan.

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SXSW Top Picks

Care2

We'll show you how Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a national non-profit, non-partisan group supporting our nation's newest generation of veterans has established a multi-year partnership with Miller High Life, the San Diego Padres, and celebrities that support their mission. When: Saturday March 12 11:00 AM.

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UN Field Notes Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Clay Aiken in Afghanistan with Unicef, Photo from Flickr. " The most recent set of posts are from Clay Aiken's field work in Afghanistan and also includes flickr photos. I've been following Unicef's Field Notes Blog. The posts are from people working in different countries on child survival work.

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Refugee Response: TechSoup's New Online Technology Resource for NGOs Helping Refugees

Tech Soup Blog

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. According to Pew Research Center , more than 60 million people or nearly 1 in every 100 people on earth have been displaced from their homes. Why NGOs and Humanitarian Workers Need Technology.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Though many of the countries we work in are talked about in the news (DR Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan), some aren’t as well-known (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nigeria) and we often need to explain why operating in these countries is important.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. Another is how funders like the Ford and Sloan Foundations have used our platform to facilitate millions of funding for digital infrastructure research.

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Fab Lab Sets Its Sights on Haiti

Tech Soup Blog

I was excited about Fab-Fi , Fab Lab's name for the simple directional antennas they're using to build a mesh wireless network all over Jalalabad, Afghanistan. I wrote a blog post a few months ago about Fab Lab, a network of community-operated workshops springing up all over the world.

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Update from Jayne Cravens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few months back, colleague Jayne Cravens was off to Afghanistan, to serve as Communication and Reporting Advisor for the United Nation's National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP), part of UNDP. from Jayne Craven's Flickr Photos from Kabul. I wrote a bon voyage post here.

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What Do Good Books Did You Read in 2010?

Have Fun - Do Good

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin Be the Change: How Meditation Can Transform You and Your World by Ed and Deb Shapiro Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad (..)

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Show Your Mama Some Love

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year’s campaign hopes to raise $65,000 to invest in Mama Lucy’s secondary school in Tanzania, Renu & Maggie’s schools in Kathmandu & Surkhet, Nepal, and Suraya’s women’s shelter in Afghanistan. Learn more about the women being honored and create your heartspace for your mom here.

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Courage, Leadership, Grandmothers, Half The Sky and The Mission List

Have Fun - Do Good

She's offering a special deal right now that if you buy her book, Zen Under Fire: A Story of Love and War in Afghanistan , you will receive 30 Days of Courage for free You'll notice when you click on the link for Zen Under Fire , that the book is only available from New Zealand at this time.

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

NTEN

Global Fund for Women GlobalGiving Good360 Goodwill Industries International Goodwill Industries of Akron GRACE Greater Twin Cities United Way Healthy Schools Campaign Healthy Teen Network Helen Keller International Immigration Equality Interfaith Worker Justice Ipas Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America IREX Irving Cares LeadingAge League of Women (..)

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Founding partners include United Nations Foundation, DonorsChoose.org , Mashable, Blackbaud, charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever and VENTURE3Capital.

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