Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. Q: What’s your advice to them on going local vs. national vs. global? A: Think globally, act locally is the cliche, but there's a lot to it. I also want to mention Consumer Reports.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Featured Photo: Sahar Foundation provides computer education to girls in Afghanistan. The post Get 34 Tips For Making A Memorable Nonprofit Video appeared first on Learn - GlobalGiving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin Be the Change: How Meditation Can Transform You and Your World by Ed and Deb Shapiro Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad (..)

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Rutzen also requested that the Global Magnitsky Act of 2016, which authorizes the U.S. The issues are far from isolated. Rutzen proposed a series of initiatives, including calling for the U.S. based anti-authoritarianism nonprofit. and the EU all against the will of the majority of citizens.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

He also says it is similar to how a global positioning system works: “ the more satellites [a GPS] triangulates off, the more accurate it is.” SenseOn is poised to become a global cybersecurity leader,” said Alston Zecha of Eight Roads Ventures in a statement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). According to their site, "RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977."

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As corporations become more global, their employees and customers are asking them to engage more with nonprofits in their communities. It combines government data, public information, and other reliable records to give the most comprehensive virtual map of nonprofits from Afghanistan to Venezuela. LEARN MORE.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

. * One of GlobalGiving's "Mom Knows Best" projects like Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso or Fast Tracking Education for Women and Older Girls in Afghanistan. * A Kiva.org gift certificate so your mom can choose a woman entrepreneur to give a loan to. *

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

While he wasn’t expecting his service to end four years later in Afghanistan – he was wounded and sent home – Gwak again didn’t waste much time deliberating about his next moves. Autonomous drone swarms do have the ability to shift the global superpower balance, whoever gets that right and can release a drone swarm of thousands.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This ex-Marine had faced daunting challenges, such as planning communications operations in Afghanistan and helping evacuate hundreds of people from an area in Japan contaminated by a nuclear spill. What they didn’t know was that in my earlier interview with Roland Palmer, I concluded within a half-hour that the job was his. There are now 3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A few other points to note for now: Google, by the looks of it , has around 200 people working in the country, covering both R&D for global services and localized operations. This is the same strategy that Facebook used in August to try to protect users in Afghanistan. When reached, Microsoft declined to comment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I imagined women or girls who received cards might keep them in a place in her home, in a drawer, or on a shelf that would always remind her that she is cared for, and that she is a part of a much larger global community. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We also partner with a decentralized global network of over 600 fiscal sponsors to support more than more than 7,000 groups that collectively raise over $35 million a year. We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. Global Giving: Syrian Refugee Crisis. Winners receive gift cards that they can use to donate to a project of their choice on GlobalGiving , the first and largest global crowdfunding platform for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). The examples are there, too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Whether you are starting your own nonprofit, or simply interested in how a person can take a seed of an idea for positive change and make it into reality, you'll find some nuggets of wisdom in this book from the founder of the Global Fund for Women who wrote, "Believing that social change is possible is the beginning. It was Anne Brodsky.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

The Elders is, "a group of eminent global leaders, convened by Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel to bring their experience and independent voices to the resolution of conflict and to innovative, cooperative efforts to address the great global challenges of our time." One of the projects he is involved with these days is The Elders.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Smart Watches. Another post-PC device to buy and pay attention to.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning. Because Instagram has a limit on the length of the video (60 seconds), consider creating an abridged or teaser version of your video. You just learned how to make a video for your nonprofit with your smartphone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I think the real answers lie in the small, diverse, creative solutions we come up with ourselves in our communities, by ourselves, or with our friends, or with a global group. India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

What kind of actions can we take to ensure not only a safe and stable Iraq, but that will also preserve our capacity to rebuild Afghanistan, isolate and apprehend terrorist cells, preserve our long-term military readiness, and devote the resources needed to shore up our homeland security?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. and globally.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The big hook of Invasion is that it’s a global story. Over the first few episodes, you’re introduced to a sheriff in Oklahoma, a housewife in Long Island, a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan, a teen in London, and an expert in Tokyo working with the International Space Station.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From the existential threat of human extinction to wars ravaging around the world, deadly forest fires and flooding, the ongoing threat to women’s rights globally — the list goes on and on. Gail Gallie , co-founder of Project Everyone , works towards making the Global Goals or Sustainable Development Goals famous around the world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2021

By: Eric Zuehlke, Head of Editorial, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy, UNICEF and Martha Mackenzie, Global Humanitarian Advocacy Lead, UNICEF. Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. Global Humanitarian Advocacy Lead, UNICEF.

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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. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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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. Saving ourselves is part of saving humanity and saving the world, I feel, especially with the discussion of women because it is such a global issue. That's the story of Women for Women. It is not a third world issue or a conflict issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Amnesty International. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Amnesty International. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

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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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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

At the bottom of the list: Afghanistan, once again the last-place holder; Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. The report is the result of a partnership between Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the U.N.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 16, 2025

I consider crunch a texture, not a flavor, and it gives you an experience, says Sally Lyons Wyatt, global executive vice president and chief industry adviser for market research firm Circana. Its this idea of taking global flavors or fusion of foods and bringing it into the snacking category.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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