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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Challenges of Establishing an Employee Relief Fund (ERF) and Recommended Solutions

sgEngage

Blog – Navigating Regulatory Requirements for Disaster and Hardship Relief Funds: A Guide for CSR Leaders. Also, working with HR is key as they often know who has been impacted by a disaster or personal hardship and can remind them to apply or even help them complete the application and get any required back-up documentation.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

Alternatively, 23 percent of nonprofit leaders anticipate they’ll need to lay off or furlough staff, according to the Nonprofit Leadership Center. Organizations continue to advocate for long-term commitments to strengthening nonprofits’ financial resiliency while also showing dedication to addressing structural change and racial equity.

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21 Strategic Lessons for Creating Great Nonprofit Games

Tech Soup

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Macon Money is one example of a game that creates an alternative currency for real world exchanges in the physical world, similar to economic stimulus. (BS).

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework. Workplace Evolution. More Resources.

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

Gyrus

Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. What is the disaster recovery plan? To start, the technology which we are appreciating now is far vaster than anything we could have imagined a mere 10 years ago.

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