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The power of social media for Hurricane Sandy

ASU Lodestar Center

Any donations that were dropped off at A Family Storage would then be moved in a Cool Box container up to Hurricane Sandy relief centers. After deciding to use social media, we set up a campaign with a relatively small budget to test what kind of interaction we would receive from our ad.

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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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Nonprofits Are Adding Bots to their Social Media Teams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

person social media team could not keep up with requests for aid during Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Visit Direct Relief’s Facebook Page and interact with the bot , and you will discover that the bot also provides assistance to people who want to volunteer or fundraise.

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Technology's Impact on Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. Google's Hurricane Sandy map currently shows areas with power outages.

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5 Text Best Practices to Boost Your Fundraising Success

Get Fully Funded

Give your nonprofit more chances to interact with donors by asking every existing donor to opt in to receive texts from your organization. Campaign update: Thank you again for your donation to our hurricane relief campaign! Thank-you text: Thank you for your $20 donation to the Puppies for Peace campaign, Ella!

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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some recent examples: The Nonprofit Aid Visualizer—NAVi—powered by Vanguard Charitable integrates several large data sets on an interactive platform, making it easy to find charities solving the problems that donors care about and want to support. NAVi seeks to fill these gaps.

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Prioritizing an Inclusive Customer Experience in Government

Forum One

The IRS can’t launch new platforms in early April, any more than FEMA can roll out new processes in the middle of hurricane season). The Executive Order pinpoints “customer life experience” as the important points in a person’s life that prompt interaction with one or more entities of Government—think retirement, or birth.