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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

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It often feels like there is little hope for our future and that there’s barely anything we can do to solve any of these big issues. These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen. The Taliban attacked me three times.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

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The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter. Autism Speaks :: @ AustismSpeaks. Campaign to End Obesity :: @ ToEndObesity. Crisis Group :: @ CrisisGroup.

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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

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In other, more rare occasions – such as the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 – we’ve felt compelled to proactively take action based on changing external circumstances. Organizations may react differently to the same situation, something Candid learned in our response to the situation in Afghanistan.

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

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Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. In his role, he oversees written thought leadership content and publications to advance UNICEF’s advocacy priorities and communicate children’s issues to broader audiences. . Photo credit: UNICEF.

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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

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The Salesforce platform, in particular, has been helping us address those issues for quite a while. Noble points out that perhaps since so many more people are aware of what’s going on in Ukraine, it can spotlight other countries like Afghanistan and Syria, and compel people to help support their efforts in those countries, too. .

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. issued credit cards. [ Shop Concern Gifts ]. It’s fun and you’ll be bringing hope to girls and women around the world. [ Send a CARE Package ]. Although Concern is based in the U.K.,

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

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Because it recognizes the root causes of social ills, by definition it describes a long-game issue that extends beyond solving challenges for an individual. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. This encourages sustained donor loyalty over time.