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Crisis Mapping in Haiti from Ushahidi, Donate by Texting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleagues at Ushahidi have already swung into action and are mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who arenot familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. 3 million has already been donated.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Clean data allows you to reach the right audience at the right time with a higher probability of getting their attention and sealing the deal, whether that is a donation, a new student enrollment, or simply getting current parents at your school to sign a permission form. Data gives us context. Data Can Sustain and Support.

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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Give money or pass this donation link around: [link] love, Luke. Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. Their goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.

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Maximizing Nonprofit Fundraising with Google Analytics 4

Allegiance Group

Your donation platform can help you distinguish one donation from another. This granular-level data uncovers the precise path a donor took on your website that led to a donation. Predictive Metrics: This feature can help you predict points like the number of donations you can expect in a certain period.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research. Real-time data also tends to reflect the largest contributions, primarily from institutions and high-net-worth individuals, as these are the types of donations that make headlines.

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Are corporations making good on their racial equity pledges?

Candid

This data is available on our racial equity map.[ These initiatives may be focused on company operations (such as hiring practices, implicit bias trainings, supply chain diversification) or they may be more externally-focused philanthropic commitments, most commonly in the form of donations to nonprofit organizations.[ billion dollars.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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