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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

Have Fun - Do Good

You can listen to the interview on the Arts and Healing Network's website , or on the player (below). After 9/11, she spearheaded an art-based CMCE 9/11 Trauma Relief Project in the New York City schools. She also pioneered art-based healing programs in post-war Bosnia.

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Disaster Can Strike Anywhere. Is Your Organization Prepared?

Connection Cafe

Hurricane season kicked off on June 1 and we’ve already got our first tropical depression in the Atlantic. A disaster can be as big as a hurricane or as small as a water main break that floods your office and surrounding neighborhood. How will television and radio interviews be handled? What’s your plan?

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Stories of Resilience: Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina

Connection Cafe

Samantha Wright, Director of Development Operations and Analytics for the food bank, says that being located in a hurricane zone makes them “no strangers to disaster response.” Experience responding to natural disasters helped them form a crisis blueprint.

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Free Disaster Planning Webinar: What Organizations Need to Know to Protect Their Tech

Tech Soup

What if it's not an actual disaster like a hurricane or flood, but a staff member simply loses or breaks a laptop carrying essential supporter data? We'll also be joined by Michelle Baldwin, Executive Director of Volunteers in Service to Others, which runs the Cooke County emergency food bank. Join me on Thursday, August 20 at 11 a.m.

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. The panel included Stefani Klaskow , Head of Industry/Healthcare at Google; Carrie Martin Munk , Chief Communications & Marketing Office, The ALS Association, and Jackie Fouse, Ph.d,

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Steve Bridger

As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). You’ll recall this interview , and this post , and this one. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. Nudge me again soon.

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