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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

The MatrixFiles

The post What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022 appeared first on The MatriX Files. I hope you find comfort and strength in The Stockdale Paradox. We are living in a Stockdale moment and we all need to become Admiral Stockdale.

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22 courageous things you can do during the Year of the Tiger

Nonprofit AF

In Vietnam, where I was born, T?t Hi everyone. This week, February 1st, we usher in the Lunar New Year.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup Blog

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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TechSoup Global and Microsoft at NGO Connection Day Vietnam

Tech Soup Blog

This year, Microsoft Community Affairs hosted its first ever Vietnam event in Hanoi on Tuesday, with the theme of "Unleashing Technology to Improve Economic and Social Development.". As with other NGOs around the world, the challenges faced by the ones in Vietnam are very similar.

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3 Veterans Nonprofits You Can Support this Veterans Day

Neon CRM

New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation. The NJVVMF is dedicated to providing meaningful and engaging experiences centered around the sacrifices and valor of Vietnam veterans. Their mission began with the goal of constructing a memorial to honor the 1,563 New Jerseyans who were lost in combat during the Vietnam war.

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Givinga Selected as Finalist of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards

Givinga

The 2021 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Brazil to Denmark to Vietnam. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists for the World Changing Ideas Awards from a pool of more than 4,000 entries. There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit Animals Asia work to end bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 3) Animals Asia Shop :: shop.animalsasia.org.

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48 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit Animals Asia work to end bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 3) Animals Asia Shop :: shop.animalsasia.org.

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New Huawei Y7 Pro 2019, Features, Photos, Price, Availability

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Huawei does not rest on the last day of the year and has presented in Vietnam its latest mobile of 2018. The Huawei Y7 is a mobile with all the ingredients to be a successful mobile in the low range, and with great potential to be a best seller. New Huawei Y7 2019.

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Daily DoGooder: Make Agent Orange History

See3

Change the world, one video at a time.Make Agent Orange History| 2:19 Make Agent Orange History Some 12 million gallons of Agent Orange, a highly toxic herbicide linked to cancers, diabetes, birth defects and other disabilities, were sprayed over South Vietnam by the U.S. military during the war at up to [.].

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Embracing Change: A Post-Pandemic Nonprofit Sector

sgEngage

The 1969 Tax Reform Act, developed in response to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, created the 501(c)3 tax status, establishing the framework for nonprofits as we understand them today.

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News - Local News: Portsmouth News and Information (Portsmouth)

AFP Blog

News - Local News: Portsmouth News and Information (Portsmouth) : "Joshua Shaw, from Portsmouth, Ed Adams, from Pebworth in Warwickshire, both 20, and Qui Mai, 28, from Vietnam will spend six weeks working for the charity Balloon Kenya this summer." ''via Blog this'''

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10 Nonprofits to Support on World Humanitarian Day

EveryAction

Their work spans the globe, including promoting the work of a vegetable and chicken farmer in Vietnam , providing financial support to nearly 2,000 families participating in soil conservation projects in Guatemala , and building sanitation facilities in Somalia. Take Action | Twitter | Facebook.

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What I Learned About Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Social Impact at IFCAsia in Bangkok

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation.

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Embracing Change: A Post-Pandemic Nonprofit Sector

Connection Cafe

The 1969 Tax Reform Act, developed in response to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, created the 501(c)3 tax status, establishing the framework for nonprofits as we understand them today.

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48 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit Animals Asia work to end bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam. Proceeds benefit Amnesty International, a nonprofit that works for the human rights of all people – no matter who they are or where they are. 3) Animals Asia Shop :: shop.animalsasia.org.

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Behind the Scenes: America Supporting Americas

Connection Cafe

Linda has been hard at work since the Vietnam War to connect active military servicepeople with supportive organizations back home. She first got involved in this important work while visiting troops in Vietnam in 1968 (where she met and married her husband who was serving as her military escort)!

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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NGO Connection Day: Singapore

Tech Soup Blog

Even though Singapore is far more developed in terms of economic measures than our last location, Hanoi, Vietnam and it has a government that is very hands-on in addressing social issues, the NGOs are still very active and in need of resources in both funds and IT capacity.

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup Blog

She studied the German, Czech, and Spanish languages and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Dress snazzy if you like, to be red-carpet ready.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been following Christian Kreutz 's blog, CrissCrossed Blog , which explores social changes through communication and focuses on the impact, potential and challenges of using Web2.0 tools in different cultures around the world. He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He

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Everything You Know About Generational Giving is Wrong

Neon CRM

The Matures grew up during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. This recap will cover the ways nonprofits can structure retention and acquisition campaigns to excite donors of all ages , regardless of their thoughts on avocado toast. What are the generations? The Matures (1927 – 1945). Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964).

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What are Effective Strategies Nonprofit Organizations Use to Improve Diversity and Inclusion?

ASU Lodestar Center

This study was conducted with workers in Vietnam, and it shows that even in other cultures, inclusion is a healthy practice for organizations. However, what does inclusion look like?

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Top 5 Nonprofit Youtube Channels

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

This powerful video on the exploitation of garment workers in Vietnam is a great example of Oxfam’s incredible videos. Oxfam also posts videos explaining the issues they face and the work they do in simple terms, making them easy to watch and super shareable.

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Meet Chip Bell, Summit Keynote Speaker

Connection Cafe

He was a highly decorated infantry unit commander in Vietnam with the elite 82nd Airborne Division. Chip Bell holds graduate degrees in organizational psychology and human resource development from Vanderbilt University and George Washington University. This month's connection cafe interview includes the highlights from our conversation.

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Good Luck Wanna on Your Thesis and Thank You for Supporting the Sharing Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wanna Kahn is a Cambodian college student studying engineering in Vietnam. Meet Wanna. Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. I've know Wanna virtually for over three years. Here's our first voice conversation back in 2005.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

and the cultural resistance to entering Vietnam in 1965, we saw how Americans began to organize and work together to tackle specific issues with a narrow focus. Don’t count out other players when you’re thinking about your next fundraising effort. Following the massive paradigm shift brought on by the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.

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Support Freedom of Expression in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

between Cambodia and Vietnam. These newly detained activists were thrown into Prey Sar prison with journalist Mam Sonando and teacher's union leader Rong Chhun, who were both arrested 3 months ago for offering critical views on government's actions related to sensitive border issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

She served at Carlisle Barracks and the Pentagon in the Women’s Army Corps during the Vietnam War. My mother served her country by joining the Army at the age of 18. As a child I remember sneaking into her bureau to pin her Army medals on my chest and parade around like a soldier. Her service didn’t end with the Army.

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A Veteran's Day Reflection on Temporal Community

ASU Lodestar Center

I’d been watching the parade for an hour or so when a unit of Vietnam War era soldiers marched past. To honor the occasion I wore a patriotic ball cap, a t-shirt that said, “Marine Dad,” and I hung my old Army garrison cap over my belt.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

Have Fun - Do Good

The creators of Global Girlfriend's merchandise come from all over the world: Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Africa, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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Seven Favorite Books of 2005

Have Fun - Do Good

You can receive more articles written by Paul Loeb by email through his web site [link] #6 Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew Pham. This was the first book I read in 2005.

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Why do we keep working in museums?

Museum 2.0

The very existence of sites like the Vietnam Memorial, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Holocaust Museum, and many others around this country is a testament to the continued dream of a better world.

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Gen Next on the Board

BoardAssist

They in turn were perplexed by those formed by the Vietnam War and “drugs, sex and rock and roll,” etc. The generation that experienced the great depression worried about those born into the post WW II boom years and the “Red Scare.”

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While Allan has been in Vietnam celebrating the lunar New Year and eating exotic foods, he has still managed to get online, play with Pipes, and IM me about it. Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit.

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How to Respond to a Racist Joke by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Have Fun - Do Good

You can then question the veracity of this stereotype, thus pointing out the racism of the joke, without being confrontational and without humiliating your co-worker. ** Co-worker: Did you hear that Angelina Jolie adopted another kid, this time from Vietnam? You: Oh really? Co-worker: Yeah. Or that he’s going to be amazing at doing nails.

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Memorial Day 2012

VisionLink

On Memorial Day, 1970 while some mourned the fallen warrior, others grieved for the students at Kent State, murdered by National Guardsman, our own countrymen, as they were protesting the war in Vietnam. That was 1970. It is now 2012, more than forty years later.

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America's Giving Challenge Official Results: We Came In First! Thank You Everyone!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wanna Finishes His Thesis, He Supports The Sharing Foundation from Vietnam with Love. Round Up of Social Birthday Greetings. Social Fundraising. In honor of Lux Mean's Promotion. Why are these Cambodian Orphans Wearing Creative Commons T-Shirts? Flow of Donations from Networked Fundraising. Mon Channy's Story.

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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

Beneficiary participation in non-governmental development organizations: A case study in Vietnam. World Development , 31(5), 813-829. doi:10.1016/S0305-750X(03)00014-7. Mercelis, F., Wellens, L., & & Jegers, M. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(10), 1446-1462. doi:10.1080/00220388.2016.1166209. Twersky, F., Buchanan, P., &

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup Blog

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French. The organization has nine full-time staff.