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How You Can Help Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts

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Late at night on Sunday August 29th, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. All of New Orleans is without power and an estimated one million people across Louisiana and Missouri are without power. UNICEF USA is collecting donations to aid their partners on the ground in Louisiana.

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Why I Donated: Why I Give $100 To My Local Community Foundation Every Year

Bloomerang

In this post, we talk to Lydia, a n instructor in Louisiana, about why she makes a yearly donation of $100 to the Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana (SWLA). Wondering how you can build better relationships with your donors? I began donating to the Community Foundation of SWLA in May of 2021.

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Exploring Disaster Philanthropy: Part 2

Connection Cafe

The largest theme that is constant in disaster philanthropy is partnership. Historically, and initial numbers from recent disasters reflect the same trend, corporations focus on the use of intermediaries to ensure their large donations are distributed to the correct organizations. Click here to read part 1 of this series.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

finds that charities aren’t effectively engaging younger donors via mobile friendly channels like social media and mobile optimized websites. It is TechSoup donor partner, Cisco’s ‘planetary skin’ that monitors trillions of sensors on, above, and below the earth to plot environmental changes. MyDigitalBridge.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. We’re a donor database. But a couple of Decembers ago, they had a donor call and asked, “What’s our funding gap? Steven: All right.

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What Nonprofits Can Learn from New Orleans

ASU Lodestar Center

I’d never experienced New Orleans, Louisiana (or NOLA as the locals call it), but I thought I knew it well. They’ve seen poverty and tragedy in their city, experienced natural disasters and man-made neglect. The best way to engage with every single stakeholder.from donors to board members to community partners.is Be relatable.