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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

.orgSource

Pairing people of different backgrounds and experience, or “bridge mentoring,” requires more intentionality and effort than casual arrangements. To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. Appreciation for the value that our differences bring to the table.

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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

The truth is that fundraisers must sort out when and how to message their constituents using positive, negative, or a blend of both. These images are especially useful for timely situations such as natural disasters, protests against racism, or economic turbulence. The truth is relative So, what’s a fundraiser to do?

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Safe & Well in Troubled Times

VisionLink

National Public Radio broadcast one of those riveting stories they do so well, in part from a disaster shelter where the Safe and Well system was being used to reconnect friends and family. It is a good blend of easy to use, useful, and respectfully private. It''s a short 4 minute story, listen here.

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The Many Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You have interactive workshops and role playing with 40 other CEOs, digging into issues from completely different vantage points. You can learn more about the environment, about human rights, about development aid, about the digital divide, about microfinance, about healthy food and about disaster response.

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We all know the limitations of the different traditional approaches to solving problems. When disaster strikes and people need water and shelter, they are not usually in a position to pay for that service. The relationship that we have with the communities that we serve is fundamentally different than traditional charity.

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What Natural Gas and Email Have in Common

Connection Cafe

Under the right circumstances (disaster fundraising for example) there is money to be made, and the technologies are evolving, but for most organizations they still constitute a very small percentage of the revenue mix and are mainly a constituent engagement tool for now.

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What Nonprofits Can Learn from New Orleans

ASU Lodestar Center

They’ve seen poverty and tragedy in their city, experienced natural disasters and man-made neglect. Everything is a blend of people, flavors, sights and sounds; all are welcome. Differences are not feared, not judged, but embraced. You might have been there and experienced something quite different.