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How You Can Help Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts

Qgiv

Late at night on Sunday August 29th, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The good news is that no matter how far you are from the areas hit by Hurricane Ida, you can still help those impacted by the storm. You can learn more about their work and make a gift here. Find the Helpers.

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Help Hurricane Harvey Victims: Where To Donate #HoustonStrong

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also ask for recommendations for local charities from colleagues. The last one is tricky if you are not local to the area, but I’m grateful to have a great network of people who work in the nonprofit sector and can make recommendations. There are many more local nonprofits, focusing on animals, elderly, children, and more.

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Three Ways To Help Support Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been ten days since Hurricane Maria has devastated the Island of Puerto Rico. And, as blogger Vu Le says, donating to organizations on the ground can be a form of self-care. Then, I look for local charities on the ground, many times there is a local community foundation that is stepping up. Where should be donate?

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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. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. It is now headed towards the gulf coast of the US.

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NNTSP Applies Relief Work for Hurricane Sandy

Tech Soup

Earlier this year, the Network for Nonprofit Technology Solution Providers (NNTSP) organized as part of TechSoup Global, combining their resources to create a national network of local technology capacity-builders serving the nonprofit sector. Several of the NNTSP partners are combining efforts for a response to Hurricane Sandy.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

CDP’s Cari Cullen describes a derecho as a “storm with hurricane-force winds in a place where the infrastructure isn’t built for hurricane-force winds.” This list isn’t exhaustive, and far more could have been written about hurricanes, droughts, and other disasters and humanitarian crises that happened in 2020. Be flexible.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

In this blog post, we highlight a new section of the report, which offers specific, actionable takeaways for how donors can maximize their disaster-related giving. . Enable advocacy and community organizing efforts. Funding community organizing efforts can activate and engage residents to change those systems. .