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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

His unit, the 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Michael Linnington Former Chief Executive Officer Wounded Warrior Project Linnington has more than 35 years of military experience and was the first permanent director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP.

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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

This is why the PeaceTalks platform was created 10 years ago with the first ever Geneva PeaceTalks being held in 2013 at the United Nations. When we talk about peace, many people think it’s only the job of politicians or high level United Nations officials and they don’t think or know how they can make a difference.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

In France, eight types of foundations are registered across multiple national registries. GlobalGiving Atlas is an effort to simplify all these projects that would require innumerable hours of research, outreach, and data transformation. A CSR team might also need outside consultants or software developers to gather the same results.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

Qgiv

Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. Consider lived experience and amplify community voice. Recognize that in the traditional Organization-Donor-Constituent triad there is now a 4 th component: Community.

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3 Essential Social Media Fundraising Metrics for Nonprofits

Achieve

The concept for GoodUnited came through Nick's work co-founding and leading Stop Soldier Suicide, a 501c3 that grew from startup to national leader in reducing veteran suicide to the national average in ten years. Nick has been an innovator and leader at the intersection of business and social impact for over ten years.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.