Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Why Social Media?

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As the east coast continues cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy, those of us who have been in the industry a while can't help but reflect on what this means for the fundraising sector and think back to the lessons of Katrina. What portion of it may be attributed to the disaster-based fundraising?

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Disaster Lesson Fundraising Files 44

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

The traditional method for nonprofits to obtain tax-exempt status is by filing as a 501(c)(3). Our platform helps nonprofits and individuals save time, money, and effort by providing banking, accounting, fundraising, and collaboration tools all centered around the fiscal sponsorship model. What is fiscal sponsorship?

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Alternative Sponsor Student Nonprofit 246

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

You may think your data isn't desirable, but if you hold fundraising events and have donor data in your files, provide direct services to your community and have client health records or domestic violence shelter rosters, and so on, then your data is desirable by someone. Why It Should Matter to Organizations.

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Celebrate Phone Internet Mobile 59

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The other reason that sometimes when you think you’re communicating with someone but you’re not is because people move, and sometimes your mail file or your contact file might not be super up to date. And so if you have postal addresses, you know, the post office recommends that you NCOA your file quarterly.

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Donor Disaster Gift Puerto Rico 63

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And there’s some specific things here about, like, using technology for virtual fundraising, moving all the finance functions to be remote, teletherapy, other aspects of program and service delivery that are remote. In terms of deleting [organizational] files, it’s important to roll out a mobile device management tool. Remote work.

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Policy Team Virtual Tech 102