Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen. One of them was 9-year-old peace activist and author, Bana Alabed, talking about being a child who experienced war in Aleppo, Syria.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

There’s no doubt that technology empowers everyone – are we going to use it for positivity and change, or to close ourselves off?” – Pete Cashmore, Founder & CEO, Mashable. “It’s It won’t be the content creators that change the world in a world where everyone creates content, it will be the content curators.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

A volunteer sharing how investments of time became the fruits of change in their community. A fictionalized composite of many Syrian refugee stories, this sequel short film to Save the Children’s 2014 film by Don’t Panic is a fast moving, visceral, and devastating cry for engagement and change. . #2

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. To read more about these remarkable individuals and the organizations supporting them, visit the Microsoft Philanthropies site and learn how we can all help to change their stories. Why NGOs and Humanitarian Workers Need Technology.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

What drives you and motivates you to create change in your community? Tell us about the change you're making in your community. This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. Share your story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Framework for Producing Transformative Change Two key concepts from the book really stuck with me. The first is their core concept of equilibrium change. The primary goal in the Valley is massive change, because when you’re a for-profit that magnitude usually yields massive profits. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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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. Mideastyouth.com is creating platforms and web applications that amplify diverse voices advocating for change throughout the Middle East and North Africa using digital media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Change your profile photo on your social networks to a photo of you with the message, "Every Human Has Rights," or to the campaign badge above which can be downloaded here. Send the message below to your network of friends and family via text, Twitter and/or email: Today is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' 60th anniversary.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

There were many more, including February’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Or has donor behavior changed as result of the pandemic? (That distinction previously belonged to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, after Hurricane Harvey.) And that’s only for one disaster last year.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Because, if we make software that promises to keep your life or death sensitive information secret to the best of our abilities, we won’t build a back door in for Syria, or China, or the U.S. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say. government or even (heavens!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

This increased ubiquity may result in some changes to the specific demographic bases of individual platforms, but even if people’s habits are changing, it appears that people are moving from one social platform to another, rather than deserting social media in its entirety. UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) January 13, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Because, if we make software that promises to keep your life or death sensitive information secret to the best of our abilities, we won’t build a back door in for Syria, or China, or the U.S. But, when asked if we know whether or not there are “pirated” copyrighted materials, we can’t say. government or even (heavens!)

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 2, 2018

Volunteers interviewed nine Syrian refugees who crossed the Mediterranean to Greece about their lives before they left Syria. Understand who your target demographic is and change your campaigns to fit their needs. Each of their stories was then illustrated on used life jackets, taken from the beaches of Greece where refugees arrive.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

But I don’t see it as a capital "S" solution to what ails us on a planetary basis and I think some of the libertarian enthusiasm for the concept obscures the depth of institutional change that will be needed. Daniel Ben-Horin: The promising change I see is in the changed consciousness of the young.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

They plan to do it through policy and regulatory changes. The organization of course has done recent high profile work in Syria, but is also being recognized for its long-standing efforts to eliminate chemical weapons in the entire world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily grant the Trump administration's request to reinstate portions of its travel ban (blocking people from six countries - Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia - from entering the United States), CARE reignited their #BetterThanTheBan campaign. Get Involved. Twitter | Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

Our world – politically, economically, socially, technologically – is changing before our eyes. From Syria to China to Mexico, mass economic and politically-driven migration and refugee crises are triggering social tension, the rebooting of nationalisms and the emboldening of old prejudices. Mass migration. Future shock.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

She writes for Our Bodies, Our Blog (about women's health and feminism) and manages the web site, Women's Voices for Change. 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.

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