Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

That's why conversations can cut right to the issue that people are debating. There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet).

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

During President Obamas call for corporate America to support returning service members from Iraq and Afghanistan, I felt personally compelled to act. One of my final roles as director of recruiting deeply influenced my career trajectory. Today, were doing that and so much more.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 11, 2021

and NATO forces in Afghanistan. These are very, very challenging issues and they’re getting more challenging and more complex all the time.”. After his promotion to general, General Patraeus rose to become the head of U.S. Central Command for all U.S. military operations in the Middle East and leader of all U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company’s flagship product, Sabi (not to be confused with a B2B e-commerce marketplace with the same name), is a digital bookkeeping app that allows small businesses to monitor and manage their transactions and customers, get insights into their cashflows, issue receipts, and effectively manage customers who owe them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

There are two hot issue right now on Craig's social action radar, the new launch of the All For Good website and next weekend's Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp in Berkeley. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As cybersecurity becomes a bigger and more complex problem for organizations, a startup aiming to increase its accuracy in fighting breaches — by bringing in an ever-wider funnel of data and vantage points to identify issues — is expanding its business.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The issues are far from isolated. The Nicaraguan government has closed down 1,500 nonprofits, including religious organizations, human rights groups and even the American Chamber of Commerce, Rutzen added.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

The project's intent is to educate and inform the public on important issues around the world, and connect individuals to organizations. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan. It uses images to promote social and humanitarian causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. Mastering Today's Technology to Connect With and Keep Your Audience (Wiley 2007), and writes/speaks/works regularly on the issues involving the impact of the internet and technology on politics, society, and the media. The list of partner charities at launch include: US Fund for UNICEF.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The issue with drug companies has been the “validation” reports that Theranos produced about its own technology in those partnerships. They thought that meant the drug companies and the Defense Department had co-signed the technology, using it on clinical trials and in Afghanistan — a lie journalist Roger Parloff heard, too.

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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. They viewed me as the bad guy arriving to rap their knuckles over some security issue.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Investors say Holmes told them the company’s devices were used in Afghanistan and on medevacs.). She had no reason to think there were any issues that she needed to be concerned about, Downey said. (In In fact, Theranos’ scientists repeatedly flagged serious issues to Holmes in emails revealed throughout the trial.).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It has faced a number of issues over the years with censorship around YouTube in Russia, although that, so far, has not had an analogue in Ukraine. This is the same strategy that Facebook used in August to try to protect users in Afghanistan. So far, those two measures haven’t been adopted for accounts in Ukraine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. There are many issues that affect the well-being of women and their communities.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Salesforce platform, in particular, has been helping us address those issues for quite a while. Noble points out that perhaps since so many more people are aware of what’s going on in Ukraine, it can spotlight other countries like Afghanistan and Syria, and compel people to help support their efforts in those countries, too. .

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And the nonprofit is left hanging, ten years later, with a tool that is full of bugs and issues, near unusable. We were astonished when hundreds of technologists used Open Collective to pool funds to help families get out of Afghanistan. Before long, you’ll have the development assistant searching Google for “technology grants.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). My favorite social action was being a sponsor for Jacinta Onoro, a Nigerian woman participating in Women for Women International.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Because it recognizes the root causes of social ills, by definition it describes a long-game issue that extends beyond solving challenges for an individual. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. This encourages sustained donor loyalty over time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They learned about reproductive health issues, such as their anatomy, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and child birth. T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. 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

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? This is not and should not be a partisan issue.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Issues they care about. No, we give the issues we care about. So if they don’t care about our issue, we need to make sure we’re working to convince them to do that, right? They’re the basics, right? I mean, do you give to organizations you don’t care about? Then missions they believe in.

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

In other, more rare occasions – such as the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 – we’ve felt compelled to proactively take action based on changing external circumstances. Organizations may react differently to the same situation, something Candid learned in our response to the situation in Afghanistan.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. 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. Credit: GOLEES.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2010

She is currently writing a memoir about her life as a UN peacekeeper in Afghanistan. As a small child I was profoundly affected by the glimpses I got into the injustices in the world so I became a human rights lawyer and spent a decade working in places like the Gaza Strip, Timor-Leste and Afghanistan.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It often feels like there is little hope for our future and that there’s barely anything we can do to solve any of these big issues. These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen. The Taliban attacked me three times.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Students attending class in Turgani High School in Faizabad, the largest city of Badakhshan, a northern province of Afghanistan. In his role, he oversees written thought leadership content and publications to advance UNICEF’s advocacy priorities and communicate children’s issues to broader audiences. . Photo credit: UNICEF.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

Today they announced that through their advocacy work, " Governor Blagojevich has issued a Proclamation honoring the Founders of La Leche League and declaring July 16-23rd La Leche League International Week!" According to the article, " The fastest-growing population in adult corrections is the female population."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

At first, I thought it might be about this recent issue , but it was the name of event " Hacking Philanthropy " to discuss philanthropy and technology today. Your donated laptop will reach a child in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia or Rwanda in the same early 2008 timeframe.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2016

Raise Awareness About an Issue. SAWA-Australia , a nonprofit that provides women in Afghanistan with health and education services, saw an increase in attendance at its fundraising events after adopting a texting campaign. On the other hand, 90 percent of text messages are opened within three minutes.

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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. It is not a third world issue or a conflict issue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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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.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

And while it’s true that it tells us little about hot-button issues like the spread of COVID-19 misinformation or the rise of vaccine hesitancy, the report arguably reveals something just as damning: almost all of the most-viewed posts on Facebook over the past quarter were effectively plagiarized from elsewhere. Great, thanks.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The report that caught my eye was issued in January 2025 by the Muhammad Ali Center , which the late boxer cofounded 20 years ago in Louisville, Kentucky, to advance social justice. Defining compassion Sociologists define compassion as the human regard for the suffering of others, and the notion of using action to alleviate this pain.

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