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

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

Qgiv

Ideally, that balance can only be determined by testing the degree of need expressed to different donor segments (direct mail responsive donors, digital donors, recurring donors, etc.). Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. Finding the balance in your organization.

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4 Tips for Using Facebook Fundraising for Year-End Giving

Achieve

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re surely aware that Facebook fundraising is quite different from the digital efforts you conduct on other platforms. Additionally, we can’t forget the digital marketing benefits. is to use social media as part of your digital marketing strategy. Being inconsistent is.

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

Tech Soup

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. According to Reem Talhouk , a doctoral trainee in digital civics at Open Lab in Newcastle University in the UK, " Technology is already playing a big role in making the work of NGOs and humanitarian workers easier.

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Fab Lab Sets Its Sights on Haiti

Tech Soup

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. Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Running Your Organization Spotlight. Of course, to get the full effect of what's cool about Fab Lab, it's useful to take a step back.

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Case Study: Building Community Online (with Appropriate Technologies)

NTEN

With "The Rucksack", Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) have actually managed to build an online community that works. Here's what Daniel Atwood, Director of Digital Engagement at IAVA, has to say about the project: Big picture, this has opened up a whole bunch of opportunities that we hadn't been able to imagine in the past.