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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course! Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Examples from Haiti.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

In TechSoup's disaster planning and recovery guide , we recommend a 2x2x2 strategy for your mission-critical data, whether you're preparing for a hurricane or for a hacker. And these things do it automatically and never sleep. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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6 Reasons Why People Won’t Give to Your Fundraising Appeal Letter (and what to do about it!)

Get Fully Funded

Maybe your organization helped over one hundred hurricane survivors find temporary housing. You can also use this information to tweak layout, content, and donation processes. They may still be much more comfortable with sending a check rather than giving out credit card information online. That’s great!

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. But that would be a lot of content!

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