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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Examples from Haiti. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total fundraising revenue.

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Online Engagement and Giving: Making the Most of Real Numbers

NTEN

With the tight economy, we see more and more organizations moving annual reports and other key data online to provide transparency while reducing costs and being more environmentally sensitive in their use of paper for materials. 39% of consumers reported making an online donation after visiting a charity website.

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Improve Online Fundraising Results and Wow Donors with These 7 Obvious Secrets

Tech Soup

According to Blackbaud 's 2011 Online Giving Report , online earnings dropped by 55 percent; but that was likely due to the increase in donations due to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. First Download the 2011 Online Giving Report , then implement these seven tips that will help you improve your online fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. That’s why the Red Cross was so successful with their text message donation campaign during the Haiti crisis. All are captured here ).

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What's Different One Year After Haiti? | Nonprofit Trends with.

sgEngage

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? The earthquake occurred at 4:53pm EST and the epicenter was 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Do you have offline and well as online channels ready to go?

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Disaster Giving and The Blackbaud Index

sgEngage

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Some important trends will be explored later to show analysis of post-Haiti giving.