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When Fundraising Disaster Strikes, What Should You Do?

Tech Soup

" His nonprofit has an annual budget of under $35,000, almost all of it raised on the Give Local America Big Day of Giving in Sacramento. The nonprofit had raised about $11,000 in donations before the Kimbia website failure. It ended up raising $39,000. Disaster Planning and Recovery. spanhidden.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Annual Support in a year of calamity

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

CommUlinks of Colorado, a Denver-based nonprofit consulting firm, found similar results when it surveyed charities at the beginning of this year following the tsunami in late December 2004. and raises an interesting point: After 9/11, groups I worked with saw an increasing interest in close-to-home programs.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

ASAE / Colorado Springs, CO / Price varies. On Wednesday, March 16th, New York Nonprofit Media will host Nonprofit FundCon bringing together fundraising and development executives from nonprofits across New York to discuss how to create a campaign and raise money. Raise 2016. Raise 2016. General / #SXSW / @sxsw.

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Giving Days and Beyond the Dollars: What Have We Learned?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tech failure that disrupted the national Give Local America Day fundraising campaign in May 2016 raised a big question for community foundations hosting giving days: What can they do differently to ensure smooth sailing in the future? Dana Rinderknect, Director of Online Giving for Colorado Gives has gone through the exercise.