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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

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To support this refugee population, CARE (an international humanitarian nonprofit) leverages and mobilizes its network of donors through Salesforce to support programs that restabilize communities and provide food, shelter, financial access, and jobs.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A lot of my to-do’s for next year regard sharing more of the amazing media assets we receive from HQ staffers who travel to the field, engaging our supporters by encouraging them to share their stories of sponsoring a woman through our programs and improving the way we share information about policy issues and current events. Book Tour ?. ?

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Guest post by Brian Reich: GamesThatGive - You Play. We Donate. Charities Win.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. GamesThatGive charges sponsors to advertise in the games, and 70% of that advertising revenue goes directly to the charity that you’re playing for. - Feeding America.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women. 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.

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What is Your Favorite Social Action of 2008?

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My favorite social action was being a sponsor for Jacinta Onoro, a Nigerian woman participating in Women for Women International. 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).

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. Women for Women is a nonprofit that pairs women survivors of war with women sponsors all over the world. women war nonprofit survivor

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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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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