Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I am a member of the staff (though my day job continues to be running my own communications strategy shop, little m media) and I ‘own’ a (very small) part of the company. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. Before I go any further, I want to be really clear: I have a personal interest in seeing the company succeed. Mercy Corps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. In the era of big data, data-mining and data management skills will be in high job demand. Data is indeed becoming the new oil.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. Current structures of suburbia, distant homes, moving for jobs, smaller families, etc. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one. The aforementioned Greater Greater Washington.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And here’s Anthony, he was in one of my wounded veteran programs that these young men and women who’ve lost their legs and arms in Iraq and Afghanistan. did they do a good job? And they did such a good job, 5,000 people show up to their graduation when these kids are graduating with the sweatshirts of the organizations.

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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. At the end of the year, upon their graduation, the goal becomes, how can we help them get a job? It's a one-year program. That's the story of Women for Women.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. Survivors can also participate in rights awareness and leadership education training, job skills training, and business development support. In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

What kind of actions can we take to ensure not only a safe and stable Iraq, but that will also preserve our capacity to rebuild Afghanistan, isolate and apprehend terrorist cells, preserve our long-term military readiness, and devote the resources needed to shore up our homeland security?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." "I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership.

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