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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. This could be identified through the roles of individuals, contact addresses, names of provinces, language, or currency, as examples.

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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. Hooper reached out directly to me after he was contacted by AA21. I was heartbroken by what was happening in Afghanistan. and others had an extremely short window to flee their country.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. What Twitter lacks in corporeal contact, I think it makes up in longevity. Is face-to-face contact the only way to build strong ties? The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one.

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