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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Nancy Schwartz has an fantastic blog post offering expert advice on how nonprofits should communicate during a crisis, using the situation in Baltimore and the Nepal Earthquake as hooks to offer some recommendations. The CDP Nepal Earthquake Recovery Fund focuses on medium- and long-term rebuilding and recovery.

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How Investing In Ongoing Nonprofit Professional Development Keeps Fundraisers On The Ball And Ahead Of The Game

Kindful

When it was over, they used their newfound knowledge about proper donor stewardship in a campaign that raised more than five times its original fundraising goal. But Dhakal went above and beyond: He used his newfound knowledge and his scholarship promise to start Nepal’s first-ever fundraising conference. .

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Flying High: Some Truly Creative Ways that Drone Technology is Being Utilized

Byte Technology

From the earthquake in Nepal to the numerous tsunamis that have devastated Japan and Southeast Asia, drones are being used to pinpoint remote regions that would typically be underserved by emergency crews, in the end saving more lives.

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The Impact of Your Donation: Udaya Sharma, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

Based in Kathmandu, Nepal, RDIC''s mission is to empower rural women with education and skills, and to engage them in micro-enterprises so they supplement their family income and live with dignity and pride. Most small nonprofits have the enthusiasm but lack the knowledge and capability to bring about social change.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Nick Simons was keenly aware of the medical needs in high altitude low income countries such as Nepal. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments (part 2)

ASU Lodestar Center

The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Nick Simons was keenly aware of the medical needs in high altitude low income countries such as Nepal. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. CH: I was a foreign correspondent in Nepal from 2003 to 2004 and had a really amazing experience in Nepal. I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco. Well, they are all of the above.