Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Even before Facebook helped raise $10 million dollars for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy for Hurricane Harvey relief, Facebook “Donate” buttons and fundraisers created by Facebook users were popping up in the feed with increased frequency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Note from Beth: With the hurricanes, gun violence, and fires, I gave generously, including donations to Global Giving funds. I surpassed my giving budget for disaster relief giving. The Surprising Truth About Disaster Donor Fatigue – guest post by Alson Carlman, Global Giving. in 2017) and disaster projects ($1.7M

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

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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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

8 Corporate Giving Trends to Pay Attention To Companies constantly change and expand their corporate giving initiatives. The corporate giving trend of partnerships between companies and nonprofits represents a shift in how both sectors approach social and environmental changes. Companies And Nonprofits Are Developing Partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

The “story” of your longevity is apt to be less engaging than the many specific unique-to-you beneficiary stories you have to share about real change. The same holds true if you survived a natural disaster such as a fire, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or tsunami. You should already have a robust donor engagement strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

What about Hurricane Sandy? Are people giving less because of possible changes to charitable tax deductions? The potential for tax code changes are more likely to encourage these donors to give now instead of waiting. Are people going to give less because they donated to Hurricane Sandy relief? Is it the economy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. We are seeing it to help donors make decision about COVID funding and other disaster related donation decisions. Davies predicts that once these systems are fully enabled, they will change the way people invest in social change. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The nonprofit sector is at the heart of helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change and is working across sectors to innovate new ways to address it. The nonprofit sector is at the heart of helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change and is working across sectors to innovate new ways to address it.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

SXSWcares , co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community to raise awareness and harness support for disaster relief. That morning, I saw the jaw-dropping photos and videos from the Japan tsunami disaster. What you will change the next time? In the end, it raised over $120,000 from 1500+ donors.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As the east coast continues cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy, those of us who have been in the industry a while can't help but reflect on what this means for the fundraising sector and think back to the lessons of Katrina. What portion of it may be attributed to the disaster-based fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

To get perspective on how to handle the changes to Facebook, I consulted with some of the non-profits who use Animoto, asking them how they’re adapting to the new Facebook landscape and how it’ll inform their 2018 social video marketing strategy. ShelterBox USA: Sharing real-time updates on Facebook with video.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It was after Hurricane Laura, and I wanted to give to an organization that directly supports our community. My giving habits are limited to my budget; if that changed I would love to contribute more money. I began donating to the Community Foundation of SWLA in May of 2021. What would inspire you to increase your donation amount?

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

Team Rubicon mobilizes veterans to offer their services, skills, and expertise to people preparing for, responding to, or recovering from disasters. . With six earthquakes, 132 floods, 56 hurricanes, and 96 tornadoes under their belt, the organization is actively planning their relief efforts in Haiti. Team Rubicon.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. When we can look at numbers immediately after a disaster, it gives us a unique perspective.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Imagine a hurricane bearing down on an isolated village. As disaster relief organizations scramble to understand the situation on the ground, desperate needs for emergency food, shelter, and medical care go unmet. Instead, what if technology could prevent some of the destruction and improve aid delivery after a disaster?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. Volunteers help change the lives of those in their community as a social responsibility rather than receiving a financial reward. Anyone with an internet connection can be a virtual volunteer.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2018

In our work to advance corporate social change leadership at Points of Light, we have the opportunity to listen to the ambitions and challenges of engagement leaders inside of companies. We started talking about how the field of corporate engagement has changed , and what trends are shaping the future of corporate social engagement.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 18, 2021

But then COVID came – and suddenly, food bank fundraising was changed (quite possibly, forever). In short, we were caught in a hurricane of uncertainty. It’s simple, non-invasive, and COVID/disaster response-friendly! Unprecedented challenges appeared. Events were cancelled. Initiatives were drastically altered or put on hold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

Social media has radically changed how people communicate, including their calls for help. As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Just a few short years ago, technology in disaster response was a different animal all together. In 2005, that changed: when Hurricane Katrina hit, technology for disaster response made the leap from field workers to those affected. Data emerged as the most important asset to any disaster response.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

In this series, the Blackbaud Institute shares stories of organizations that are focusing on resilience, weathering these many changes while still positioning themselves for future growth. Experience responding to natural disasters helped them form a crisis blueprint.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Disaster relief. When most people think of text-to-give technology, they think of disaster relief efforts. Since its inception, mobile fundraising has been used to bring aid to those in need in the wake of natural disasters, from hurricanes to earthquakes to wildfires and everything in between. Environmental awareness.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Leads World Central Kitchen’s emergency and disaster relief efforts and long-term impact projects . Coaches executives on how to lead through change.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. E-commerce has forever changed the way people shop, and your organization can use that to your advantage with wish list drives. The rising popularity of online fundraising is changing the way organizations plan and create fundraisers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. These are all sobering reminders that climate change isn’t just a distant threat anymore — it’s happening now. The Nature Conservancy Focuses on Local Solutions to Drive Change. © Steven David Johnson; July 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The technology itself, especially devices trackers like fitbit and the apps that are being developing for health care from tracking your calories, stress level as well as apps that help with keeping your medication on track. She mentioned that 50% of Americans say they have changed their health behavior based on using a tracking device or app.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

As noted in an USA Today article , online "donations for the first five days after the January 12 disaster totaled 19% more than during the same time frame after the 2004 Asian tsunami and 109% higher than the equivalent following Hurricane Katrina in 2005." That is typically the heaviest period of the entire year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. And then, on December 6, 2007, everything changed when my friend Susan Reynolds was diagnosed with breast cancer. Tell me about you. I'm a wordaholic.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This wasn’t Tacker’s first go at responding to a disaster. Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. The amount of money we can give isn’t life-changing for them, but it can help out in a tight situation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

As noted in an USA Today article , online "donations for the first five days after the January 12 disaster totaled 19% more than during the same time frame after the 2004 Asian tsunami and 109% higher than the equivalent following Hurricane Katrina in 2005." That is typically the heaviest period of the entire year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Changing the Present Facebook application offers nearly 1,000 meaningful $1 gifts from hundreds of leading nonprofits, so you're sure to find something that moves you or your sweetheart. Give a copy of Love Letters from the South , a beautiful photography book that pays tribute to all those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And it should serve as a stern wake-up call to all nonprofits and social change makers to shake the complacency off our security standards. In TechSoup's disaster planning and recovery guide , we recommend a 2x2x2 strategy for your mission-critical data, whether you're preparing for a hurricane or for a hacker.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

Like other areas of disaster relief , wildfires, particularly in California, have becomes an increasingly common occurrence. But, when you examine disaster-related funding in the last five years, funding directed at wildfires is $13.1 million, while hurricane-related funding totals $480.6 Perhaps length of time. Perhaps not.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

In order to ground things a bit, we’re going to include an example of each type of lede from a hypothetical environmental organization sending a fundraising appeal on the topic of climate change. Here in the Everglades, the signs of climate change are unmistakable — and tragic. 22 EMAIL LEDES THAT ALWAYS WORK!! Water levels are rising.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Since last Christmas, our planet has suffered through the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, this week's devastating earthquake in Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the recent horrific mudslides in Central America. What a year.

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