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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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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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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your gift will be used where it’s most needed to help families turn crises of poverty, conflict or disaster into opportunity to build better lives. Natural Resources Defense Council :: Green Gifts. Your donation will be matched to a project that includes the item that you selected. Nonviolent Peace Force :: Peace Bonds.

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Helping Haiti: Places to Donate, Creative Fundraising Ideas, and Being a Smart Donor

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When I posted about How to Help Haitian Earthquake Survivor s on Tuesday evening, there wasn't much information out yet about how to help, but now there are lots of posts and articles with lists of organizations you can donate to like: Helping Haiti. donate safely; 3. Her advice is: 1. give money, not things; 2.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A call to action can be an urgent donation pitch, a request to sign an online petition, or a call for volunteers. Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content.

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TechSoup Global Cloud Survey Results and Cloud Donations for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Find a recent TechSoup webinar on backup and disaster recovery presented by Sam Chenkin of npCloud. Sam explains a bit about cloud computing and disaster recovery basics, and outlines the different types of cloud storage and products designed to help NGOs prepare for disaster recovery.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A call to action can be an urgent donation pitch, a request to sign an online petition, or a call for volunteers. Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content.

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Profile of ESRI Founder Jack Dangermond

Tech Soup

We have dozens of donated and discounted green products on TechSoup and from time to time, we like to have a deeper look at our green product donor companies. ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) is a California-based company and is the fifth largest privately owned technology company in the world.

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