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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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Apps for Disaster Planning

Tech Soup

TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane.

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A Guide to bbcon 2021 Virtual for Nonprofits

sgEngage

There will be opportunities to collaborate with your nonprofit peers from across the U.S. While we encourage you to choose from the plethora of sessions available, we wanted to highlight some of the ones we’ve specifically designed for nonprofits and what you can expect to learn. . Highlighted bbcon Sessions for Nonprofits.

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Microsoft's Windows Azure and Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Since it is a cloud-based platform it helps users save on physical resource costs, allows greater flexibility for online work and collaboration and the ability to get applications off the ground quickly. How, You Ask? Second Harvest in Japan.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research. Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support? What to know about real-time data .

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Candid and COVID-19: Getting information to a world in crisis

Candid

Candid responded by publishing a website that provided information on funding for coronavirus relief, resources for nonprofits and individuals, news on the pandemic, and more. In this article from our 2020 annual report , Laia Griñó shares how people across Candid collaborated to create the website in record time.

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