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Tips for Donors on Afghanistan's Complex Humanitarian Emergency

Tech Soup

This post is republished with permission from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. See CDP's What We're Watching page for news on the status of disasters worldwide, along with relevant disaster-related media coverage. It was originally published on August 20.

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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. By: Rakesh Bharania, Director, Humanitarian Impact Data, Salesforce.org and Alex Parker, Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org. Here are some tips for finding and managing that user data and content.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

It has more than 125,000 volunteers, has responded to disasters in 700-plus communities, and raised nearly $250 million. His unit, the 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Following four years in the U.S. He’s been there and done that.

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UNICEF Shares 4 Ways to Reverse COVID-19’s Impact on Children

Saleforce Nonprofit

Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. Reimagine disaster spending. Reimagine disaster spending. Photo credit: UNICEF. Take urgent action to protect children from climate change and slow the devastating rise in global temperatures.

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A Day Trip the Hague, Netherlands: International City of Peace and Justice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It was closing time in the Hague and I was too late to the Oxfam Novib office to meet anyone, but a poster in the window reminds us all to remember Afghanistan one of the poorest countries in the world, affected by decades of conflict and disasters. . Office already closed, but a poster in the window at @OxfamNovib. HagueDayTrip.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Jake Wood , author of, Take Command , weaves together hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from his experiences in college football , as a former Marine sniper and as cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon -- a disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders deployed to areas hit by natural disasters.

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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. I was heartbroken by what was happening in Afghanistan. and coalition forces withdrew their troops, Afghan allies that served alongside the U.S. Veterans Called to Duty Digitally. Government.

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