Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine? Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Realizing that you yourself can effect such change will lead you to clarify your vision and identify the skills you need to prepare the ground and plant the seeds of change." I've already given this book as a gift to several people because her persistence, and her focus on solutions are skills we can all cultivate to create positive change.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. Community members will also need to have the skills to collaborate and the authority to make decisions over the tools that underpin their sustainability.

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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 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. The websites are text only and building them requires no previous technical skills. They also connect well with Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right? 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. Plus, it’s super competitive.

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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. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. It's a one-year program. That's the story of Women for Women.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Over the past 18 months or so, the antennas have been appearing around Jalalabad , a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. It wasn't created by a government either, but it could become the new symbol of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan and around the world. I've been aware of Fab Lab for a few months now and I'm enamored.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills. 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.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

He was sewing as a means of regaining his small motor skills, and as his wife looked on, they talked about their efforts to piece their lives back together. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. What do we want to accomplish now that we are in Iraq, and what is possible to accomplish?

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