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Mobile Fundraising Campaigns Begin For Chile

AFP Blog

Mobile Fundraising Campaigns Begin For Chile: "Following the earthquake in Haiti, mobile fundraising via texting exploded; with over $40 million raised via text messaging alone. With the massive success of the Haiti campaign, mobile donations are now being used to raise funds for the victims of the 8.8

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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Resources

Tech Soup

Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Update from CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help. The Extraordinaries and Ushahidi Using Technology to Help in Haiti. Post Tornado, the Library Is Open in Joplin.

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How to Help Chilean Earthquake Survivors

Have Fun - Do Good

Last Saturday, February 27th, Chile was hit with an 8.8 If you're looking for ways to help the earthquake's survivors, the sites and blogs below have posted lists of relief organizations working in Chile: Chile's 8.8 Flickr photo credit: Puro Chile, es tu cielo azulado uploaded by Diego Salgado. magnitude earthquake.

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CDI's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs

Tech Soup

In some ways, the impact of the recent earthquake in Chile wasn't as immediately obvious as that of the earthquake in Haiti. After their hugely successful text messaging campaign for Haiti , the Red Cross has set up a similar campaign for Chile: simply text "CHILE" to 90999 to make a ten-dollar donation.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change.

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe.

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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. In the midst of the viral Text HAITI to 90999 message, we saw the emergence of what we're calling emergency social data, or #crisisdata. Melissa Eliott was heavily involved in the Haiti relief effort as a volunteer.