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Three Ways To Help Support Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been ten days since Hurricane Maria has devastated the Island of Puerto Rico. We have read the harrowing news reports about a lack of food, electricity, and water and people dying. Then, I look for local charities on the ground, many times there is a local community foundation that is stepping up.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. Puerto Rico “ earthquake swarm.” Syrian refugee crisis. million in aid.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . Enable advocacy and community organizing efforts.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: With the hurricanes, gun violence, and fires, I gave generously, including donations to Global Giving funds. But that doesn’t mean the important, ongoing charitable work in communities suddenly becomes less urgent. Donors have given about equal amounts to Hurricane Harvey ($4.0M since Aug.) since Sept.).

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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

Achieve

Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. 2017 Millennial Impact Report. They even reported voting is a form of activism. To download this year’s Millennial Impact Report or previous years’ reports, please visit. If Achieve’s.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. And it worked really well in Puerto Rico - we’ve served over 3.6 We're currently active in 10 different countries. million meals!

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Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

Saleforce Nonprofit

And, because HandsOn Connect is built on Salesforce, it can be configured and extended to meet the specific needs of the nonprofit, including the all important reporting for stakeholders, grants, and federal programs. It meant that 775,644 meals were handed out; 359 tonnes of surplus food was saved; and 1.2M minutes were spent nattering.

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