Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2014

I''ve found that often times a small change in perspective can make a huge change in what is possible for so many people, myself included. I was a part of the 418th Civil Affairs Battalion in Belton and deployed to Iraq in 2008. What aspect of leadership do you like writing, coaching and speaking about most?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

The Rucksack" -- a cutting-edge project that I led recently for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) -- is an especially powerful example of an organization using technology in a strategic and transformative way. That pretty much says it all.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Next I zipped over to the Global Changemakers event, where six teenagers from around the world presented their projects to change the world, using the PechaKucha format (20 slides timed over five minutes). Prince Haakon of Norway kicked off the session, along with our moderator, Angel Cabrera, the dean of the Thunderbird Business School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." It develops and supports the profession of social entrepreneurship by acting as a venture capital firm for visionary change-makers around the world. Here's how it works.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

Things are changing in our country with a new civic engagement. 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. Q: Do you have a strategy or roadmap for these social actions that you’re following for Craigslist or yourself personally?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Note from Beth: I've been tracking the games for change space for a few years, although not very deeply. My goal with this post is pretty simple: I want to convince you that GamesThatGive has the potential to change the way charities use the internet to engage audiences and raise money. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time. Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action? Positions are part-time and paid.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

By changing the presentation of Fanta’s story each time they shared it on their website and Facebook profile, PIH made the content feel fresh and engaging each time. Included is an image of Dustin on tour in Iraq, wearing an ambiguous expression and surrounded by a dusty landscape.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The Iraq War was raging. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

These involve detection and interruption, identifying individuals involved in transmission, and changing social norms of the communities where it occurs. The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. They do work to reverse the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

The Bay Area based Agape Foundation's Fund for Nonviolent Social Change is accepting nominations until May 31st for its 3rd Annual Peace Prize for local peacemakers. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq. Photo Credit: Peace Log by Alan Levine. Mother's Day peace

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Personal computers, cell phones, digital assistants, and the Internet have fundamentally changed how we communicate. Generations X and Y -- born between 1965 and the mid ‘90s -- grew up absorbing these tools early in life, while boomers and older generations have had to adapt and orient to a changing world of 24/7 communication.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Convio makes it pretty easy to whip up campaigns that empower constituents, expand our network of supporters, and most importantly, catalyze change. EG for CC: Of Convio’s array of online resources, what have you found most useful? BR for POGO: Action alerts! EG for CC: Please share a few facts about yourself.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

She points out why this was such a groundbreaking event and suggests a compelling new metaphor for philanthropy: Imagine if philanthropy sought to be an "empowering platform for individuals (and organizations) to make change." " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

This year’s conference, to be held on March 4 and 5 in DC, promises to be a serious change (dare I say upgrade?) Julie Germany, the Deputy Director, thoroughly understands the web, is constantly digging behind the trends, and has made some interesting changes in planning POLC08. has gone through many evolutions. from years past.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Currently in the lead as of Wednesday afternoon are: True Majority American Friends Service Committee Union of Concerned Scientists Refugees International But like all elections, everything can change in the final week.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Show what changed. During her career, she’s produced for CNN International, served as a humanitarian spokesperson in Iraq, and led award-winning nonprofit and corporate communications teams. The best stories contain multiple news values. This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. Top Down Command and Control Organizations Are The Only Way Social Change Happens (WRONG!).

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. How did it change your life? Reem: I had a car accident when I was 20 that really changed my life. My brother had teahouses in Europe, so he was really the tea, sort of, aficionado.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He noted that when he turned against the Iraq War he lost two-thirds of his readers, especially after admitting mistakes about his position on the war. If everyone can comment immediately, then errors, in fact, will be called out quickly. He discussed several topics as a way to highlight certain qualities of blogging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Here are some examples of ways people have used the arts to create social impact: 50 Crows Social Change Photography "Images inspire people to act. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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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. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. Also, in the social change field I think we often - the sector has a sense of self-righteousness and heroism.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. Two years after MECA started sanctions were imposed on Iraq, which were ultimately were responsible for the deaths of half a million children under the age of 5.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

If humans have become so much more intelligent in the last 100,000 years, why can’t we evolve out of wars? and displayed in the museum. and displayed in the museum. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem.

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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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

One handy example is the mapping and visualization of the Iraq War Logs and most recently AV referendum results in the UK. how open data will change your organisation and what you can do about it,” and the presentations have been made available online. CNN used Twitter data to report on the 2010 World Cup Fever in South Africa.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 19, 2007

Yesterday, in Iraq, Andrea Parhamovich and our security personnel were enshrined on that list. They were not the enemies of anyone in Iraq; they were there to help. She was so obstinate in her efforts to create change. They did not see themselves as heroes, only people doing a job on behalf of a cause they believed in.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2009

However, things rapidly changed from Q4 2008 to Q1 in 2009. Prior to this study, the Index of the National Fundraising Performance had only been showing a gradual decline in donor numbers since the US Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. The decline in donors accelerated even faster due to the recession and a 13% decrease in new donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. Though the tools may have changed, the basic human rights and need of children have not. Save the Children is the leading, independent organization that creates lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. Strategy'

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

However, things rapidly changed from Q4 in 2008 to Q1 in 2009. Furthermore, this is the first time in eight years that we have a Democrat in the White House who is very supportive of major progressive causes such as health care reform, ending the war in Iraq, etc. Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.

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See3

DECEMBER 17, 2007

750 “Turning the Page in Iraq&# mail pieces in Davenport $1,100.00 Your stories, words of encouragement, and passion for change connected with the folks here on the ground and moved them more than I can tell you. Here’s what you can buy from (for) the Obama campaign: $28.75 Now you can make your support even more concrete.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" That's kind of what I have found, is as I've progressed writing and doing my podcast, it kind of changes. You can listen to it here , and I have included the transcript below.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book? com , Inc.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book? com , Inc.

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