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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

His unit, the 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being.

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Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal

The Verge

Social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are coming under new scrutiny for the way they treat Taliban accounts, as the militant Islamist group emerges as the dominant power in Afghanistan in the wake of the US withdrawal. Facebook does not make decisions about the recognized government in any particular country”.

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Best Practices for Securing Data in Humanitarian Crisis Situations

Saleforce Nonprofit

The unfolding crisis in Afghanistan is a stark reminder that many Salesforce.org nonprofit customers often work in fragile environments. About the Author. Rakesh has also engaged across the board with policy-makers, senior government officials, academia, first responders, NGOs/IGOs, volunteer organizations, and industry leaders.

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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan. Government. I was heartbroken by what was happening in Afghanistan. About the Author. and coalition forces withdrew their troops, Afghan allies that served alongside the U.S.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. Now, we want to engage you to co-create an ownership and governance structure for the commons, which can fund itself for the future, and which integrates its purpose and values into its legal DNA.

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

In his books, he tells the story of founding his nonprofit and recounts tales of the struggles they faced while fulfilling their mission of providing education to girls in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. These books have given him a large and intense fan base. He received his Ph.D. Like this article? Get another!

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Elizabeth Holmes smiles on the stand as her trial nears an end

The Verge

I don’t know why the government chose to send an assassin who didn’t know when to twist the knife. Several investors — Lisa Peterson, Brian Grossman, and Bryan Tolbert — told the court that Holmes said the Theranos devices were used by the military, either on medevacs or in theater in places such as Afghanistan. Today was scattered.

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