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A Transitioning Veteran’s Biggest Challenge
While transitioning out of the military, the greatest challenge I faced is one that many Veteran organizations don’t attempt to solve. I wasn’t wounded and I don’t suffer from psychological burdens...
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Tips to Drown out the Twitter Noise
Folks, this has become a big issue on Twitter – how do you get to the real good stuff on your Twitter feed? Where are the tweets from your community? And how do you make an effort to use Twitter most...
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Just a few more days to help out America's heroes
Hey, there are just a few days left in Veterans Charity Challenge 2 and we're raising money to help out folks who are risking their lives for us, and their families. We need your help. I figure, the...
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Big News: Over $345K Raised for America's Heroes
Hey, big news just in time for Independence Day! We just raised $346,438 for America's Heroes during the Veterans Charity Challenge 2. The organizations raised $296,438 online. Another $5,265 was...
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Hey, I was involved in the virtual roundtable on Reinventing How Veterans Transition into Society in the Reinvent America series with a few really smart people, who are doing good work with vets...
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5 Things You Should Know About the Military Consumer Campaign
Folks, "today's service members and their families must be extra vigilant in guarding against scams and predatory lending practices. With separation from family and friends, frequent relocations, the...
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5 Reasons We Need Social Change
Folks, I started this craigconnects thing because I really want to use tech to give a real voice to the voiceless, and real power to the powerless. Ever since starting craigconnects, I've created a...
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Why I Support Vets
Photo Credit: U.S. Dept of Veteran Affairs Bottom line: if someone volunteers to risk taking a bullet to protect me, I should stand up and help out. This might date back to my mid-teens, towards the...
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New, Free App Aids Military Families
Military families shouldn’t have to struggle to find information they need. MyMilitaryLife, an app by the National Military Family Association, eliminates the stressful search by connecting families...
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When You Practice What You Preach…
I'm hearing, anecdotally, that cultural transformation at VA and elsewhere might have been nudged into motion by relentlessly handing out my business card and practicing what I preach. The big thing...
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When I Got My Philanthropic Act Together
4 years of craigconnects Hey folks, I started doing a lot of philanthropic stuff around 2000 or so, after getting a good sense of my personal mission. This was around the same time people helped my...
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Why We Need to Raise Money for Women Veterans
[Starlyn's Reenlistment]As many of you know, I believe that if someone volunteers to risk taking a bullet to protect me, I should stand up and help out. To help out, I've launched an Indiegogo Life...
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Giving Back to Vets: When Their Service Ends, Ours Begins
Folks, you might remember that I started an Indiegogo Life fundraiser to support Swords to Plowshares, veteran and Bay Area hero Starlyn Lara, and women veterans. Our goal was to raise $2,000 to pay...
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5 Nonprofits That Are Igniting Change
Folks, lots of nonprofits really have their boots on the ground doing good work, but my team and I wanted to highlight a few that have been on our radar lately. These nonprofits have been disruptors...
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6 Veterans Groups You Need to Know
Maybe seven years ago, I was at a lunch, sitting next to a guy from the Iraq & Afghanistan Vets of America (IAVA). Finally, it clicked. We really need to support regular people who gave up a lot to...
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How to Help Vets Get Jobs in Tech
We should do what we can to helps vets get jobs. It's also good business, since about 12% of all unfilled US jobs are in IT, and Vets in Tech (ViT) helps get the job done. ViT works with industry...
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How You Can Give Back to America's Heroes
I like to honor and support veterans and military families all year long, but with Memorial Day, I like to do some extra support to help out. This is the third year that I've supported the Veterans...
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#20yrscraigslist: respecting boundaries while helping out
During the last ten years it’s sunk in that I should do more and more to help people out. Doing customer service, somehow, helps me understand that such help should be done respectfully and...
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When I Got My Philanthropic Act Together
4 years of craigconnects Hey folks, I started doing a lot of philanthropic stuff around 2000 or so, after getting a good sense of my personal mission. This was around the same time people helped my...
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Why We Need to Raise Money for Women Veterans
[Starlyn's Reenlistment]As many of you know, I believe that if someone volunteers to risk taking a bullet to protect me, I should stand up and help out. To help out, I've launched an Indiegogo Life...
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