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

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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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. This contest is for donors to share their story – so why not encourage your nonprofit’s board or donors to enter? Good stories are authentic, emotional, and use dramatic structures. Momsrising.

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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. To get a sense of the complexity involved in connecting these groups to make an impact, take three countries’ unique nonprofit data stories: Organizations have a variety of registration types.

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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. He got the job.

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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 24, 2022

Based out of the southern city of Odessa, the company’s main spokesperson and managing director, Denys Zhadanov, canceled a phone interview for this story, saying that there were too many emergencies that needed to be handled at the moment. This is the same strategy that Facebook used in August to try to protect users in Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film. Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. Check out the Chasing the Flame blog for more details.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Dreams is his personal story, while Audacity is more of a reflection on American politics and culture. We got to talking, and she told me about a book she wrote about the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan , an underground organization working for women's rights in Afghanistan. Unbowed by Wangari Maathai.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video? As charities, we tell stories all the time—it’s how we show our donors their money is making a difference! Find your story. Like all good stories, your final script should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Of course you do!

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Her personal story is chronicled in the memoir, Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. Literally, the safe haven for women is the only space where they can go, and learn, and share their stories. That's the story of Women for Women. Every single one of them has a story.

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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. That can happen all over the country.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Habbo’s InfoBus re: curbing violence against gay teens; developing understanding via the Matthew Shepard Foundation visiting ‘in-world’ or the War Child Int’l foundation partnership to focus in-world on kids impacted by violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda etc. What do you think?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Berlin-based startup wants to be a layer on top of prominent paywalled news services, connecting readers with curated “playlists” of news and opinion stories called Read Lists and augmented with an original summary. What’s interesting here is the team.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Listening to the stories of these young men and women, most of them in their early twenties, I had to ask myself how I would be feeling if it were my son, my nephew, or my sister lying there. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. What are the costs and benefits of our actions moving forward?

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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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