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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Veterans Called to Duty Digitally.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

The nonprofit world’s approach to funding does not, and will not, work for the capital intensive, open source driven, risk-laden landscape of technology today. Only technology companies (with some exceptions in the open-source world) do that well. Can radical philanthropy support building tools for the movement?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tactical Philanthropy continues the One Post Challenge with a post titled " Beyond Hacking Philanthropy " from Kevin Jones from Good Capital and who blogs xchangexchange. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe.

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