Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Change the Equation :: @ ChangeEquation. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. Amnesty International USA :: @ Amnesty. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka. Autism Speaks :: @ AustismSpeaks. Campaign to End Obesity :: @ ToEndObesity. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence :: @ CSGV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Just received word that Jayne is off to Afghanistan at the end of February 2007, to serve as Communication and Reporting Advisor for the United Nation's National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP), part of UNDP. I'll be in Afghanistan through part of August." You can follow her adventures in Afghanistan on her blog.

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JULY 10, 2023

Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. There is, frankly, revenue risk with any sudden change in messaging. But that changed when he met Molly, a service dog your support helped train.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

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

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

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. Kiva Cards: Starting a $25, Kiva Cards change lives. It’s fun and you’ll be bringing hope to girls and women around the world. [ Send a CARE Package ].

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. To read more about these remarkable individuals and the organizations supporting them, visit the Microsoft Philanthropies site and learn how we can all help to change their stories. Why NGOs and Humanitarian Workers Need Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change , says forget spending money on stuff to celebrate your mom on Mother’s Day. Nonprofit tech and social change bloggers are supporting the campaign with these inspiring posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? That would be me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What is the change that will result? This is when I first observed the rise of “ Free Agents ,” highly connected individuals who could launch social movements in the palms of their hands by mixing their skills with online networking and their passion for social change. What is the definition of success?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I've listed some of the books I'm considering below (I haven't read them yet). Please let me know if you'd recommend any of them for my book club.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

With "The Rucksack", Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) have actually managed to build an online community that works. Now that's transforming technology into social change. We all want it. We know we need it. Making it happen?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Before this point I had not been able to affect the kind of change I was seeking by being a fine art photographer only. I know that I can make a difference for positive change, and am learning that Traveling Postcards might be the vehicle for making that change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The Art of Leadership is a, "retreat workshop for social change leaders from the nonprofit, philanthropic, labor and socially responsible business sectors." You can get a taste of Tara's wisdom by watching this clip from her recent appearance on the Today Show where she talks about common ways women undermine themselves with their own words.

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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 pretty much says it all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." It develops and supports the profession of social entrepreneurship by acting as a venture capital firm for visionary change-makers around the world. Here's how it works.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

Most of our board placements love nothing better than joining a board where they can be a voice of change. SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services. Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. The post Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women appeared first on Salesforce.org. Credit: GOLEES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Note from Beth: I've been tracking the games for change space for a few years, although not very deeply. My goal with this post is pretty simple: I want to convince you that GamesThatGive has the potential to change the way charities use the internet to engage audiences and raise money. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

Things are changing in our country with a new civic engagement. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. Q: Do you have a strategy or roadmap for these social actions that you’re following for Craigslist or yourself personally?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). According to their site, "RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World by Isabel Losada. A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World describes Losada's journey from navel gazer to activist. Realizing that you yourself can effect such change will lead you to clarify your vision and identify the skills you need to prepare the ground and plant the seeds of change."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

tools can, and are changing our world. Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist by Mike Farrell Farrell's keynote at the Writing for Change Conference this year floored me, and everyone else in the room. tools, it was about how Web 2.0 Check out Billy Matheson's review of Here Comes Everybody on WorldChanging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It felt to me like coming out of the closet when I began talking about spiritual practice with my activist friends"--Marisa Handler The more I write about organizations and individuals who are creating social change, the more I realize that to create true change, we need to change our inner world and our outer world.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

So, you can imagine my delight in discovering this fabulous photography site called Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan. It uses images to promote social and humanitarian causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. Top Down Command and Control Organizations Are The Only Way Social Change Happens (WRONG!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Marianne is a change-maker, a human rights advocate, a yoga teacher and a writer. She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. The first guest post is by Marianne Elliott. You can follow her on Twitter at @zenpeacekeeper.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. I think the best recent piece I’ve seen on the topic is the Guardian’s “ How crowdsourcing and open innovation could change the world.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. There are folks who are very focused on changing their outer world and don't realize that they need to work on some stuff inside so that they can do better work out in the world. That's the story of Women for Women.

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MARCH 7, 2011

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

The annual international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is taking place in Bali and in Second Life from December 3-8th. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe. Can't afford to visit Bali?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

She writes for Our Bodies, Our Blog (about women's health and feminism) and manages the web site, Women's Voices for Change. Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

What kind of actions can we take to ensure not only a safe and stable Iraq, but that will also preserve our capacity to rebuild Afghanistan, isolate and apprehend terrorist cells, preserve our long-term military readiness, and devote the resources needed to shore up our homeland security?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. KR: Well, I think people like yourself who work in the media, and who are journalists and who blog, can do a great job of telling the story of why investing in women is such a remarkable way of making change in the world. It's something worth thinking about.

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