Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2023

“Disasters and crises are inevitable, but businesses do not have to face them unprepared,” explains James Burstall , author of the new book, The Flexible Method: Prepare To Prosper In The Next Global Crisis. Among the advice Burstall offers is that when a disaster strikes, he recommends you look beyond your organization for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

“ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. For its part, Kimbia’s technology team tried to fix the problem. In advance of the event, leaders had outlined what it would do in case of unexpected problems like blackouts, inclement weather, and technology failures.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2013

In times of disaster, social media can provide an on-the-ground view of what's happening, who needs help, and where they're located. More on Technology and Disaster Relief. For more resources and products around disaster planning, check out TechSoup's Disaster Planning and Recovery page. Image: aboyandhisbike.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

As the weeks pass, the disaster recovery is increasingly shifting out of the hands of professional first-responder organizations into the hands of the local NGO community. Unfortunately, many of the nonprofits that will help communities recover have themselves been affected by the disaster. About TechSoup Japan. Photo by Jon Downs.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

problem, here is an awesome list of potential tasks that might be perfect for your interns. Business challenge Challenge interns to create a 10 page presentation that researches an existing problem in the company and pitch practical solutions. In order to really avoid the ‘what do I do next?’

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

— Opportunity about to be missed Dear Opportunity about to be missed, You’ve actually named the problem in the way you’ve framed your question. That’s your problem, and it appears you’ve already solved it. Try asking yourself a series of “why” questions to get to the root of what your real problem is. What should I do?

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A global biological disaster was unique in our current experience. Yes, it involves assessing the situation and addressing problems. Now that “disruption” is a business catchphrase, is “resilience” an equally common term in your professional vocabulary? It’s a word that deserves a prominent place in every management team’s playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

don’t know about you, but with everything that is going on in the world today – from natural disasters and political issues – I’m frequently being asked to donate to different causes.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In a nutshell, you need three things: The problem you’re addressing – make it seem real and relevant to the prospective donor. The solution you’re proposing to address the problem – with your donor’s help. Key Appeal Elements Luckily, it’s not at all difficult to provide the information donors need. Too many letters meander.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

And there are all sorts of things you can do with those services, including helping out in disaster recovery. While there are some clear logistical problems in doing this with people, it works a lot better with computers (for starters, they don't need a salary, training, or job security). Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 7, 2014

Investments, changes in work flow, and a host of potential problems when implementing the tech are all daunting challenges to face. Technology is always changing, and if you and your team is not ready to support your tech, problems will manifest themselves in your process. Image courtesy of Column 5. Reluctance to fund big projects.

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Candid

JULY 14, 2022

We believe those living in Tribal communities are best equipped to find solutions to the problems they face; they simply lack the resources to implement. PWNA provided $8,000 in disaster relief funding to heat the center so that Crow Creek tribal schoolteachers could tutor students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We are seeing it to help donors make decision about COVID funding and other disaster related donation decisions. The future plan is to use this tool with other aid organizations and types of natural disasters such as wildfires. The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2021

As an industry, we have typically thought of disasters in the natural sense, however after 2020, we have had to take a completely new stance on what disasters can look like. It is not ideal to wait for disaster to strike to establish your employee relief fund (but it can be done). Looking to start your own Employee Relief Fund?

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TechImpact

AUGUST 7, 2014

The problem is, nonprofits are not giving it a chance to. in 2013 and you have a recipe for disaster. We’ve all heard about the $30 million dollars the Red Cross raised through mobile in just a few hours in the wake of the Haiti natural disaster. Mobile giving wants to trend up. Real world example.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Foundations are discovering that they cannot address immediate disasters or address long-term systems change without finding creative ways to combine their resources and build true partnerships with government, business, donors, and nonprofits. New Collaboration Models Emerge.

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, especially for 2019 and 2020 data. This is the data set we, and others, use to derive information about trends in grantmaking, such as on racial justice in education or funding for disasters. Having comprehensive data is what allows us to answer these types of questions with confidence.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Social media, crisis mapping and the new frontier in disaster response | Global Development Professionals Network | Guardian Professional : Social media, crisis mapping and the new frontier in disaster response During a crisis the large amounts of data produced can be overwhelming to analyse.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

And ignoring it can lead to innumerable headaches, stress and even disaster down the road. Indeed, far too many people choose an inadequate or downright shady host in order save a few dollars, and doing so can create a plethora of ongoing problems. Have they had problems with any of their plugins in the past?

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

What was a source of information, are quickly becoming the trusted and necessary managers of community-wide information used to support inquiries from the public, state and county governments, nonprofits, and more--and able to do so every day, during disasters and emergencies, and for broad and specialized sectors.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 23, 2024

The real problem comes when you don’t tell the donor what you did with their gift, particularly before you ask for another donation, or you fail to even thank them for their donation. Donors may start to feel taken for granted and that definitely won’t motivate them to give. Otherwise, your donor base starts to shrink away to nothing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

The best way to do that would be to make the problem disappear, right? Moral of the story: ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away and can even make it worse. I imagine he reacted like the majority of people would, probably even you. You want to defend your friends and coworkers (or, you know, at least the ones you like.).

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A big problem for nonprofits is the cost of hardware. Disaster recovery. You can customize the experience. User accounts are stored on the server with the OS, allowing individual employees to access their version of the virtual desktop. Decrease hardware wear-n-tear.

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Philanthropy has realized collaboration can take us forward.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Even though inflation made dollars not stretch as far, world events and climate disasters increased need across many communities. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. If you are not prepared for the requirements, a government grant can create more problems than they solve.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. 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. We can’t only invest in a product.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Many people all over the world face different challenges and problems. These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Ushahidi member Patrick Meier interpreted the JRC results as suggesting that "unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake."

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes. Climate justice is an overlooked problem within the climate sector.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

A story that compels includes a protagonist your audience cares about, important problems that must be overcome, a solution that overcomes the problem (something to root for), and (4) an ending—hopefully a happy one. . How to Protect Your Pets in a Natural Disaster. What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. Arts and culture.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2020

It was only few minutes after the 10:30 launch time that lenders began to experience problems accessing the SBA’s E-Tran loan processing system. All of the reports I have around the country is that it’s been a disaster,” said Paul Merski of the Independent Community Bankers of America. Bankers have been locked out most of the day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

A longtime venture capitalist with his DEFTA Partners firm , he wants to help solve social problems using hybrid capital structures that meld nonprofit and for-profit partners. George is a financial mastermind with one foot in Asia and the other in California. Public Interest Capitalism is his personal brand of social change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Perhaps my favorite, the partnership between Sweetgreen (a popular organic restaurant) and World Central Kitchen (an organization that provides meals in the wake of natural disasters) fed frontline medical personnel and vulnerable communities through COVID-19.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2013

You can get rid of viruses, malware, or other problems. Save time and increase productivity by allowing staff to revert a malfunctioning computer to a previously saved snapshot with RollBack Rx PC. The software takes snapshots of an entire hard disk, not just system files, making a rollback quick and easy.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

But here’s the big exception: open rates are better than ever at helping identify deliverability problems if you are looking at Apple opens or combined open rates. On the flip side, the wait-and-see groups haven’t seen any deliverability problems and are continuing much as they have before, just with much higher open rates.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

As we emerge from the depths of the pandemic, we must remember that never in the history of the United States have we experienced an equitable recovery to a disaster or recession. No problem. It has been quite a year. Instead, such events have intensified race, health, and wealth disparities. Working in a small shop?

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