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Why the Most Advanced Disaster Relief Software Saves You Time & Money

VisionLink

Visionlink announces new disaster relief and disaster operations modules, and now all listed on one page to share with your staff and stakeholders. We can refine every solution in hours — not weeks, to match state or local regulations, mandates, and business processes. No custom engineering. Or keep them on cost-saving standby.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Join us in St. Louis for the National VOAD Conference!

VisionLink

We look forward to another engaging conference with the National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD) , in St. Visionlink offers the only disaster solutions that are both pre-built and completely configurable--and designed for collaboration and data exchange from the ground up. Louis, Missouri , from May 8-11, 2023.

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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Centers: $200 million in New Capacity Building Funding Available

VisionLink

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), today announced more than $200 million in new funding for states, territories, and tribes to build local capacity for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and related crisis services."

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The Countdown is On: Celebrating National 211 Day!

VisionLink

211 is the most comprehensive source of information about local resources and services in the country. It's powered by people: thousands of caring, local experts are available to help, 24/7. Not to mention the most advanced disaster relief systems available. Calls to 211 are confidential and can be anonymous.

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

The disaster also displaced over 1.9 Multilateral support for disaster relief and humanitarian aid began soon after the earthquakes with the World Bank releasing $1.78 of the total dollar value captured in the first 14 days of data collection. million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Citizen-Powered Response.

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