Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? Though many of the countries we work in are talked about in the news (DR Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan), some aren’t as well-known (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Nigeria) and we often need to explain why operating in these countries is important.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And the nonprofit is left hanging, ten years later, with a tool that is full of bugs and issues, near unusable. We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. Before long, you’ll have the development assistant searching Google for “technology grants.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? Issues they care about. No, we give the issues we care about. So if they don’t care about our issue, we need to make sure we’re working to convince them to do that, right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

She also goes through a vocational skills and business skills training track, where it ends up giving her tangible skills, so she can get a job. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. It is not a third world issue or a conflict issue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). Each woman is paired with a sponsor whose donation helps to cover some of their basic necessities (food, water, medicine).

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Congo Action Sudan Herzegovina 40

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They learned about reproductive health issues, such as their anatomy, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and child birth. In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community.

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