Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The list of partner charities at launch include: US Fund for UNICEF. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. . - GamesThatGive has invited some of the most well-known, innovative, and effective organizations to serve as charitable partners. The Wilderness Society. Ronald McDonald House Charities. Jumpstart for Young Children.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The project is active in Iraq and Kenya. This involves things like how to manage investment funds that include purification processes for dealing with interest payments on loans in places that find common banking practices against Sharia law. Perhaps most impressively they are working in Syrian civil war.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Twelve organizations focused on peace and human security are appealing to their constituents to vote early and often, in a bid to win the grand prize of a $100,000 grant from Ploughshares Fund. Every dollar “voted” is a tax-deductible donation to the group voted for, with nothing taken off the top by Ploughshares Fund.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

She works with executive directors and fundraisers to tell their stories in ways that create healthier, more stable funding for their missions. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. World Wildlife Fund. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. World Wildlife Fund. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr.

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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. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. He still is.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So that leaves about 20% of the funding pool to organizations like you. 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. Steven: Donor is saying I don’t really care where the funds go, you know, you pick.

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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. So, there are lots of tangible results from what we are doing, and that's how we measure our success. That's the story of Women for Women.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

According to UNIFEM's, "Gender Profile-Iraq-Women, War & Peace," : "[M]ore than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. What is CODEPINK?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The fundraising objective is to raise revenue for our Syrian Children’s Relief Fund in order to support our responses to ongoing and urgent needs as a result of the conflict. We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. Another challenge is the delay in receiving the funds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Sponsors give $27/month to fund a survivor's basic needs, as well as seed money to start income generating projects. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

million-member political action committee who works on issues from universal health care to climate change, and energy independence to restoring democracy through getting rid of the torture clause that the Bush administration has written into the government charter, and trying to get public funding for elections. We are a 3.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I would say that funding is often a challenge, but I think we can get beyond that too because there are individuals throughout this country and throughout the world who are really awakening people of wealth who are using that financial energy, if you will, to change things. Look at us, how creative we are. So, that's one of the things.

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