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Three Ways To Help Support Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been ten days since Hurricane Maria has devastated the Island of Puerto Rico. I have my go-to global organizations that do a great job at relief efforts on the ground, set up funds for long-term rebuilding, or do a terrific job of vetting local charities to support. How do you decide which organizations to support?

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Bookshare en Puerto Rico

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I am lucky to be able to contribute this passion to Benetech by providing outreach and membership support in Spanish to the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Why shouldn’t students in Puerto Rico benefit from our technology and services? This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

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Puerto Rico “ earthquake swarm.” Puerto Rico experienced a series of earthquakes beginning in December 2019. We identified $791,176 to date in earthquake funding for Puerto Rico. Support racialized communities. Philanthropy responded to one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history with $1.4

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Visionlink’s Volunteer Registry Deployed for Hurricanes Harvey & Irma

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Allows agency personnel a powerful search feature to locate the types of volunteers that will support your specific mission, contact them, recruit them and identify them as "deployed" to avoid multiple contacts. Virgin Islands: [link] For Texas: [link] Volunteer Florida will also be live on the system in the near future.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

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Philanthropy plays a crucial role in helping communities prepare for and respond to global disasters and supports the long-term recovery that individuals and communities face after disasters. Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle.

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February 11 Is National 2-1-1 Day!

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VisionLink Is Proud To Support 2-1-1s Do you know 2-1-1? Every day, thousands of people across North America turn to 2-1-1 for information and referral support. As of February 2015, 2-1-1 serves over 291 million Americans (93% of the entire population) covering all 50 states plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

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Scott supported more than just nonprofit institutions. For example, several donor collaboratives housed at Borealis Philanthropy were individually supported, including the Black Led Movement Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, and the Spark Justice Fund. and Puerto Rico. This time, however, non-U.S.