Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

One of the most amazing nonprofit storytellers I ever heard in my life is Alberto Cairo (International Committee of the Red Cross) who delivered a truly inspirational speech during the International Fundraising Congress closing plenary. Has your nonprofit mastered the art of storytelling? Why not enter #mygivingstory today!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Marianne Elliot has created a new online course, 30 Days of Courage , "for people who want to step out of their comfort zone, through the small acts of daily bravery that add up to a courageous life."

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I've listed some of the books I'm considering below (I haven't read them yet). Please let me know if you'd recommend any of them for my book club.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. The organization works to educate.

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MAY 1, 2009

. * One of GlobalGiving's "Mom Knows Best" projects like Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso or Fast Tracking Education for Women and Older Girls in Afghanistan. * A Kiva.org gift certificate so your mom can choose a woman entrepreneur to give a loan to. *

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In a football game, as in life, there are always going to be circumstances and events beyond your control. It took place about three weeks after my sniper partner, Clay Hunt, took his own life. Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. It certainly did for me.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded. We must raise $1,000 to keep our classes going for another year.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

We tend to block out these everyday noises in our normal life, but you will be surprised how loud and obvious they can be on film. Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning. Film in a quiet space if you need to capture a conversation or monologue. How loud are passersby?

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DECEMBER 19, 2006

I was so inspired by how you can warm up someone's life with knitting, in more way than one, that I've signed up to be notified the next time my local knitting store offers a beginner's knitting workshop. Last week I wrote about my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. This one definitely tops my list, and I don't even knit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because our veterans have earned their benefits and the right to a better life after the battlefield.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan. When we do open, and we let that pain through, things can start to move and shift in a way that is very healthy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because our veterans have earned their benefits and the right to a better life off the battlefield.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. All I’ve ever wanted from my life was to do good. Vegetable gardens also have positive environmental impacts, especially if they are planted using biodynamic principles to promote, for example, regeneration of healthy insect life.

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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. A lot of research shows that if you record ordinary people’s conversations with their close friends and family and you will find that this is exactly what they do – talk about the mundane rhythms of life.

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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. that’s just life. Because I’ve spent the last four years talking with Jenny and she knows my whole life story. This is what. did they do a good job?

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MAY 13, 2009

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. Our country director in Rwanda was a refugee all her life.

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Care2

MARCH 7, 2011

We'll show you how Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a national non-profit, non-partisan group supporting our nation's newest generation of veterans has established a multi-year partnership with Miller High Life, the San Diego Padres, and celebrities that support their mission. When: Saturday March 12 11:00 AM.

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2007

Here is a small excerpt from Honorata's story from the Women for Women International site : "It was in 2002 that the world turned upside down and Honorata lost the signs of a "true and nice life" that she and her husband had built. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life." She was captured and tortured by the armed militias.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe.

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JULY 18, 2007

Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student. She writes for Our Bodies, Our Blog (about women's health and feminism) and manages the web site, Women's Voices for Change.

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DECEMBER 3, 2005

I will leave my family and my friends and the life I knew and I will fight." Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. Well over two years after the start of the Iraq war, these threats to our way of life remain every bit as serious. And they went. And they're fighting still.

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