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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. I've already started updating the feeds on the homepage to aggregate Ida-related information, but there are still some tasks to be done.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” What about Hurricane Sandy? Are people going to give less because they donated to Hurricane Sandy relief? Hurricane Sandy is unlikely to have a significant impact on this trend.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director. San Francisco Ballet. World Central Kitchen. Michael Thatcher. President and CEO. Charity Navigator.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009. Inspiration.

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