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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North Carolina Story Blackbaud Disaster 27

NTEN

MARCH 11, 2011

Flickr photo: Logan was his name-o It's been just a few hours since one of the largest recorded earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit off the coast of Japan. The photos and video coming out of the region are awe inspiring and scary. Just a few short years ago, technology in disaster response was a different animal all together.

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Japan Nptech Disaster Hurricane 64

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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Disaster Philanthropy Hurricane Turkey 103

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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Facebook Haiti Chile Disaster 105

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. 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.

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Celebrate Phone Internet Mobile 59

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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Raise Ideas Online Help 98

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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email Work Sound Hurricane 110

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2014

During my 4 years at both the local and national level, I worked on several disaster operations— from the house fire in the middle of the night to some of the most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the US. What does disaster fundraising have to do with ALS? Photo Cred. Create mission moments for donors.

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Donor Disaster Challenge Hurricane 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar. Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. Flickr photo credit: Milica Sekulic by CC Attribution 2.0 Cool Factor : Assists during times of emergency.

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Mobile Hurricane Cancer Myanmar 90