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DECEMBER 1, 2013

The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES!

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nick co-founded Stop Soldier Suicide stemming from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Rianne Haaijema, Project Coordinator for IFAW’s Blijf van mijn Dier , shared how the organization finds temporary homes for the pets of domestic abuse victims. They didn’t know I was coming, but were a pleasure to briefly work with and learn from. HagueDayTrip. Office already closed, but a poster in the window at @OxfamNovib.

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MARCH 18, 2011

By Sam Dorman I've had the good fortune to be involved in some great technology projects over the years, for some great causes. It describes the project from more of a strategic perspective than a technical one. To help share the story, I've put together a behind-the-scenes video tour of the Rucksack.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan. Build your own heartspace, share the campaign, and share your love!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. I created a heartspace using a photo of my mom and are dancing. I created [.]

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

With "The Rucksack", Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) have actually managed to build an online community that works. Here's what Daniel Atwood, Director of Digital Engagement at IAVA, has to say about the project: Big picture, this has opened up a whole bunch of opportunities that we hadn't been able to imagine in the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. Winners receive gift cards that they can use to donate to a project of their choice on GlobalGiving , the first and largest global crowdfunding platform for nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

She's offering a special deal right now that if you buy her book, Zen Under Fire: A Story of Love and War in Afghanistan , you will receive 30 Days of Courage for free You'll notice when you click on the link for Zen Under Fire , that the book is only available from New Zealand at this time. I'm completely biased!

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

I've also donated to personal fundraisers, where my friends are raising money for a pet project or trying to pay off a large medical bill. You have to keep your donors regularly updated on the progress of your campaign or project. Share pictures, updates, quotes from people involved in the project or benefitting from it, etc.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The concept for GoodUnited came through Nick’s work co-founding and leading Stop Soldier Suicide, which stemmed from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan. About the Author.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Nick is the Founder and CEO of GoodUnited, a venture backed Software as a Service (SaaS) startup that helps nonprofits like Wounded Warrior Project, American Cancer Society, World Wildlife Fund create 1:1 relationships with their donors through the combination of data science and human judgement delivered in conversational messaging platforms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. We have come a long way!

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. * . * Oxfam America Unwrapped and fund virtual gifts like a pair of school uniforms for $20 , or planting 50 trees for $30. *

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

A growing network of more than a half million volunteers and nearly 50,000 projects a year, with volunteer opportunities that range from building wheelchair ramps in. San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: These aren't Craigslist projects: they are me acting as an individual, and/or the Craigslist Foundation. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. Things are changing in our country with a new civic engagement.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Be sure to include time for staff discussion and consultation in your overall video project plan. Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning. This two-column approach will ensure you don’t miss any shots and you’re efficient with your time. STEP THREE.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The concept for GoodUnited came through Nick’s work co-founding and leading Stop Soldier Suicide, which stemmed from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I wouldn’t have signed on to this project if I didn’t think GamesThatGive was something special. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. I have seen millions of dollars and countless hours wasted by organizations looking for a magic bullet solution to how to thrive in today’s connected society. The Wilderness Society. Do Something.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

In addition to stories about how each project was created, Christiansen includes knitting patterns related to the organizations' work like the ChemoCaps Eyelet Hat, Peace for Fleece Classic Wool Socks and Afghan for Afghans Child's Vest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

You can learn more about Jeffrey Sachs' work with the UN Millenium Project here. We got to talking, and she told me about a book she wrote about the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan , an underground organization working for women's rights in Afghanistan. Paradigm Found by Anne Firth Murray.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

One of the projects he is involved with these days is The Elders. It's the do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Check out his website at www.mikefarrell.org.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit landscape is littered with abandoned grant-funded and poorly maintained tech projects. Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

GlobalGiving Atlas is an effort to simplify all these projects that would require innumerable hours of research, outreach, and data transformation. It combines government data, public information, and other reliable records to give the most comprehensive virtual map of nonprofits from Afghanistan to Venezuela.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. She has been working with Women Win in various capacities since 2011 on a range of projects and programs both in the U.S. Credit: GOLEES. GRLS Initiative Director at Women Win. . and globally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It Gets Better Project. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. National Priorities Project. Polaris Project. Because freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right under the First Amendment. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. National Organization of Women (NOW).

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan. It is a memoir; it's non-fiction, but with a project like that, you choose what you put in, and I had my whole life and the many experiences I've had on many different continents to select from.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

It Gets Better Project. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. National Priorities Project. Polaris Project. Because freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right under the First Amendment. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. National Organization of Women (NOW).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The project is controversial in that it definitely has digital inclusion aims, but also is in the critical path of Facebook’s business objectives to grow its user base. Finally, I think one of the more interesting international crowdfunding projects is Watsi, a Global Crowdfunding Platform for Healthcare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

The project's intent is to educate and inform the public on important issues around the world, and connect individuals to organizations. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan. It uses images to promote social and humanitarian causes.

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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. Don just asked a donor, what type of projects they would be interested in. And so it’s a really powerful card to write thank-yous on that. Steven: Love it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

This type of documentation is often a critical step in the large-scale data analysis projects conducted by Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) in partnership with human rights organizations. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. What advice do you have for people who have the idea, "I want to start an organization, or project, or social enterprise to make the world a better place"? That's the story of Women for Women. laughs] One is A.)

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