TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The attack began with cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government departments with floods of internet traffic and data-wiping malware, followed by a ground, sea and air incursion. Zhadanov noted that Readdle has grown into an international company, with people employed in 11 countries.

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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. Government. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Hamid Karzai International Airport. I was heartbroken by what was happening in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, back in the U.S.,

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Combining a tech platform with fiscal sponsorship, Open Collective can take on the compliance side—like dealing with the Internal Revenue Service—so that groups can focus on their work. We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

One of the ones I am continuing to support is Women for Women International. I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Our conversation began with Zainab describing how Women for Women International serves women survivors of war.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I think that in an age where what we're facing often seems very vast and faceless - huge institutions, corporations, or undemocratic governments - I think that the real answers don't so much lie in, they can, but not always, big ticket solutions. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

That means that 70% of almost all the money given in this country other than government money is coming from people sitting down and asking face-to-face, or on Zoom calls in some kind of face-to-face setting. It’s an international organization that does some work on chromosomes and stuff. So that means it’s personal.

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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. Credit: GOLEES.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

Marianne is a writer, human rights advocate, and international yoga instructor. Her memoir Zen Under Fire , tells the story of her work and life in Afghanistan. Marianne writes and teaches on creating, developing and sustaining real change in personal life, work and the world.

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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. Because we are all stronger when we work together.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Over the past 18 months or so, the antennas have been appearing around Jalalabad , a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. It wasn't created by a government either, but it could become the new symbol of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan and around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. Reunited, she began to rebuild their life."

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Aschaffenburg attack followed knife attacks in Mannheim and Solingen last year in which the suspects were immigrants from Afghanistan and Syria, respectively in the latter case, also a rejected asylum-seeker who was supposed to have left the country. Migration turnaround now! Scholz described the latest incident as a terrible attack.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

government for Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on international conflict resolution, I have learned that compassion is a key ingredient of peacemaking. Agency for International Development , which has long spent billions of dollars a year helping the worlds poorest people, compassion seems lacking among U.S.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The US government has now successfully appealed this decision by offering a number of assurances to British judges. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison, though the US government claims the actual sentence will be between four and six years.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Elon Musk called on Thursday for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government as part of his push under President Donald Trump to radically cut spending and restructure its priorities. has fought wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. Agency for International Development.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. In the past five years, 72 countries have introduced 270 measures restricting civil society,” Douglas Rutzen, president and CEO of the International Center for Nonprofit Law testified.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. What are the costs and benefits of our actions moving forward?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows. Dozens of other canceled contracts are expected to yield little if any savings.

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