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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

This brand recognition is what makes The Red Cross the go-to organization in times of disaster. Before graduating he was accepted to Teach for America and has been placed at a nonprofit preschool that provides early childhood education to low income families in Los Angeles. 4] Keller, E. Dato-on, M. & Shaw, D. Get another!

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How Much Money is Raised through Online Giving?

sgEngage

In 2010, online fundraising in the United States surpassed $22 billion. The 2010 Online Giving Report revealed that the size of the nonprofit makes very little difference in what percentage of total fundraising comes from online giving. It is also worth noting that online giving spikes during disasters or extraordinary circumstances.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. Misery and Debt’, Endnotes , April 2010.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.). Tracking Environmental Disasters : The size and scope of environmental disasters appears to be growing. In 2008, we had the Tennessee coal ash spill , which was billed as “the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States.&#

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