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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

This spam is both lame (no graphic, no attempt to make the senders address look legit, mangled English) and odious -- preying on disaster victims (one can hope they're just preying on greedy idiots who will pretend to be disaster victims). Sender: Ban ki Moon (Info@cast.net). Subject: United Nations Headquarters. THE UNITED NATIONS.

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TechSoup's Disaster Planning and Recovery Guide

Tech Soup

Most organizations don't think about disaster planning until it's too late. Since Hurricane Katrina struck the US in 2005, TechSoup has created and maintained content specific to nonprofits, libraries, and charities on disaster planning and recovery. Do you have any experience dealing with disaster recovery?

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Inspired by Corporations’ Investment in Purpose and Social Responsibility Throughout the Crisis and Hardships of 2020

sgEngage

We also saw this trend in our industry report as CSR professionals stepped up with disaster relief campaigns that specifically supported social justice. million in funding, which was 31% of the disaster relief donation amount in 2020. Disaster relief saw a significant increase in donation amount reaching over $9 million.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I surpassed my giving budget for disaster relief giving. The Surprising Truth About Disaster Donor Fatigue – guest post by Alson Carlman, Global Giving. Disaster relief organizations have been working around the clock to respond to seven catastrophic disasters in the past two months. It will surprise you.

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George Hara: Public Interest Venture Capitalist

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

George is a financial mastermind with one foot in Asia and the other in California. He uses the Alliance Forum Foundation as one of his vehicles for making deals along these lines in Asia and Africa. They were going to bring Bangladesh better wireless internet than exists in California, and they’ve done it.

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

Byte Technology

Because they can detect nuances in plantings that can’t be viewed effectively from the ground—healthy densities for example—they can help farmers plan ahead to avoid disasters arising from droughts, infections that can wipe out entire yields and even whether or not certain sections of plantings are maturing at a faster rate than others.

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Asia/Pacific Partners Meeting: Disaster Recovery, Knowledge Sharing, Cloud Computing, and More

Tech Soup

It was the perfect storm: we knew it was time to host a meeting of TechSoup Global's partners in the Asia/Pacific region. By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference.

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