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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once. That is no longer the case.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo. Mission: To fund social entrepreneurs in the developing world through crowdfunding. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo. Fundação Roberto Marinho ● frm.ong. Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil.

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Saving the World One Tech Innovation at a Time

Tech Soup

As disaster relief organizations scramble to understand the situation on the ground, desperate needs for emergency food, shelter, and medical care go unmet. Instead, what if technology could prevent some of the destruction and improve aid delivery after a disaster? What if it didn't have to be that way? Download the report.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. Crowdsourcing 101.

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Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report | Nonprofit.

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The coalition includes the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , GuideStar USA , the Foundation Center , the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics , the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Blackbaud. Reasons cited for the decline in foundation funding include lower grant amounts and non?renewed