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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. We believe that technology systems intended to be used in fragile environments must be “protective by design,” and seek from the outset to minimize the risk of harm.

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today is UNICEF’s birthday, marking 75 years of delivering critical services and creating safer and healthier environments for children and families around the world. Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. Photo credit: UNICEF.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"While most of our jobs don''t involve leading a tour of Marines through an ambush, or rushing into a relief zone just decimated by a hurricane, in today''s fast-paced, hyper-competitive business environment, we are ALL on the front lines, says Wood. And we can all benefit from a strategic way to approach problems and decisions," he adds.

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

Bloomerang

Let’s look at the nonprofit environment and why that’s so important. All the work we’re doing, whether it’s the environment, no matter what your mission is, we’re doing this. So here we go. And then we’re going to say, “Hey, why care about your brand? What does it really matter?

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Other times it is collected to record the human rights environment in a given context, perhaps a conflict or post-conflict situation. 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.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe. It's an ecofriendly laptop loaded with open source software and friendly to the environment. More information, see this write up from the Wall Street Journal , not quite a gee whiz fantastic endorsement.

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