Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 17, 2011
Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises. The text message stream doesn't help the decision process.
Care2
AUGUST 27, 2018
The design students turned entrepreneurs invented the solar-powered, waterproof lantern with a mission: to help people through power outages after major disasters, like the Haiti earthquake. After being featured on the program?—?and and scoring an investment from billionaire investor and businessman Mark Cuban?—?their their revenue tripled.
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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.”
Get Fully Funded
MAY 29, 2023
A compelling statistic. Adding a powerful statistic can go a long way in making donors feel like their gift was worthwhile. But when choosing a statistic, make sure the figure makes sense and doesn’t require too much explanation. Make sure the stat truly makes the case that your donor’s gift made a difference.
sgEngage
JUNE 16, 2011
The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.
NetWits
APRIL 4, 2012
Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2010
If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. Maybe that first step is research. A simple audience survey to learn: How is your target audience using their mobile phones?
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