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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

Amy Sample Ward

Just before noon, I decided to go online and see what those in my networks were sharing from their own celebrations or reflections, and immediately found the #GoSilent campaign from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). It pulled me in, and then everywhere I looked online I saw it was pulling in others! A simple commitment.

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How to Maximize Success Stories Across Your Nonprofit’s Digital Channels

Nonprofit Tech for Good

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. WFP USA also shared Rani’s story on Instagram.

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Today is World Refugee Day: Give Refugees a Hand

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Yesterday's Huffington Post article, 500,000 Iraqis Refugees in 2007 , reported that, "A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality." The Dispatch also reports that the reason for the increase is the war in Iraq.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The Iraq War was raging. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Mother's Day for Peace

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Friday, May 11th will be the 3rd annual Mother's Day "Peace of the Pie" National Action Day as part of The Peace Alliance's campaign for a U.S. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq. You can see which Congresswomen voted for and against the Iraq War here.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

And in this folder, we have the names of everyone and we collect the photos. 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. And so I got a photo of them. And they just go, “Oh, my god, this is so amazing.

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Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

Tech Soup

One handy example is the mapping and visualization of the Iraq War Logs and most recently AV referendum results in the UK. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in London recently hosted the workshop “ Civil Society 2.0: CNN used Twitter data to report on the 2010 World Cup Fever in South Africa.

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