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Best Practices for Securing Data in Humanitarian Crisis Situations

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Rakesh Bharania, Director, Humanitarian Impact Data, Salesforce.org and Alex Parker, Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org. The unfolding crisis in Afghanistan is a stark reminder that many Salesforce.org nonprofit customers often work in fragile environments. Director, Humanitarian Impact Data, Salesforce.org.

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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.

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Behind the Scenes of IAVA’s Cutting-edge “The Rucksack”

NTEN

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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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

We’re going to talk about the bigger picture things as it relates to personal branding and making yourself memorable, so you can raise some more money and improve those donor relations. We’re going to start out kind of the big picture. But the big picture is, let’s put that in our heads for a second.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

You get her picture. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Well, I'm looking at the picture of one them, Honorata, who is one of my best teachers in this world and a hero for me. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life. You get her letters.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

Have Fun - Do Good

If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

Have Fun - Do Good

I then went up to the wards to visit with other injured veterans - to take pictures, talk about basketball, and to say thank you. I am not the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of State, or the Director of National Intelligence. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating.

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