Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. Foundations, charities report $352 million in 2019 disaster funding. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York City has announced a $50 million gift from Mike and Maria Repole and the Nonna's Garden Foundation to establish a research and patient care initiative.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last weekend, the island of Haiti was hit hard by not one, but two, natural disasters. The good news is that no matter how far you are from Haiti, you can still help those impacted by these disasters. Global Impact acts as an advisor, intermediary, and implementing partner across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Note from Beth: With the hurricanes, gun violence, and fires, I gave generously, including donations to Global Giving funds. I surpassed my giving budget for disaster relief giving. Alison Carlman, Director of Impact and Communications at Global Giving, offers a deep dive into some Global Giving data to find the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We have read the harrowing news reports about a lack of food, electricity, and water and people dying. I usually take a three-prong strategy for disaster relief. As we watch reports of a disaster, we can give directly to people on the ground. For example, Global Giving. Where should be donate?

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

With breaking news, it takes time for the full picture to emerge. We review the flurry of news stories, press releases, and announcements, and we actively search websites to identify and record grantmaking data. While we recognize that a global crisis fuels a global response, as a U.S.-based

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. The New FCC Ruling on Net Neutrality.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This increased generosity is good news for nonprofits! Companies Are Prioritizing Disaster Relief and Crisis Response. In a recent study, corporate giving efforts accounted for $405 million in contributions related to disaster relief. They work year-round to provide disaster relief organizations with donations and resources.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 16, 2024

That brings a glimmer of good news. Another bright spot in the report was the increase in new donors of 2.3%. The big uptick came around October or November and was likely motivated by external factors such as global conflicts, the war in the Middle East, and international disasters.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. And there are all sorts of things you can do with those services, including helping out in disaster recovery. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response. Tools like mobile text/sms, facebook, twitter, and even Wikipedia have permeated the global community and in times of crisis are natural outlets for updates, news, and even cries for help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. People need to hear more good news.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2022

Now, let’s take a minute to pause and consider the global trauma we have all just experienced over the last two years: the COVID-19 pandemic, continued racial injustice, wars, natural disasters, increasing hunger and inequity, a spike in homelessnes, and more. A global trauma. Often anxiety is born from trauma.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

One of TechSoup Global's key endeavors in becoming a global organization for social change, was in establishing a new office in Warsaw, Poland two years ago. The news of this disaster is unbelievable. Tags: International News.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This week, TechSoup Global and Microsoft Community Affairs hosted the TechSoup Global Contributors' Summit, a gathering of TechSoup Global Network partners , TechSoup product donors, foundational partners, NetSquared Local organizers , GuideStar International partners , and other members of TechSoup Global's extended family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2015

On Saturday morning, I got a news alert on my mobile phone that there had been a devastating 7.9 The next thing I noticed in my Facebook feed was a post from Robert Scoble mentioning a new Facebook feature that lets you check on friends in a disaster. Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2012

seminar that TechSoup Global hosted in collaboration with The Guardian. Some key highlights : Marnie Webb, co-CEO and Paul van Haver, director of global services at TechSoup Global, highlighted the need for charities to help transform the way they engage with and. of their communities. help the public. other development issues.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Based on the data we were able to collect from news sources, funder websites, and from funders directly , we issued two reports with our partners at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to help the sector make sense of its collective response. We start with a few caveats.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

and globally, including those who work in development, membership, finance, marketing, executive leadership and more. You will hear how philanthropy performed during past economic downturns and natural disasters, providing necessary context as we shape a prosperous path forward. . You don’t want to miss it! .

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Brings a strategic focus on addressing the policies and systems that perpetuate global poverty . Global CTO, Tech for Social Impact. Global Movement.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

However, drones are also being used for humanitarian purposes, such as delivering aid, tracking environmental conditions, and helping out in disaster relief. Assessing disaster-stricken areas. Drones also show promise for delivering goods to rural or disaster-stricken areas that would otherwise be inaccessible. Gathering Data.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2019. Hosted by: Center for Disaster for Philanthropy and Candid. Every year, disasters and humanitarian crises affect millions of people globally and billions of dollars are distributed in response. ” The good news is, you can! ” The good news is, you can!

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2011

On the blog you can find coverage of their work with global partners on projects that range from using to technology to prepare students for academic and future professional success to helping communities cope with disasters. You can read more about the work done through Microsoft Citizenship on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Given what is going in the news and our country over the past few weeks, it is very hard for us to shut it out and tune out, perhaps because we feel urgency to do something. What is your advice about consuming the news these days and how to be an activist but also balance self-care. I also don’t follow breaking news.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Several of us from TechSoup Global will be there, and we'd love to see you! Here's a rundown of where to find us in sessions presented with TechSoup Global staff: Tuesday, April 3. Delivering Services Through a Global Network. Come share your challenges, learnings, great tips, and plans for global expansion.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Early last year, mobile giving evolved from an emerging technology to mainstream awareness with Haiti earthquake relief, raising approximately $45 million for victims of that natural disaster. Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

Our colleague, Beth Kanter, wonders whether a "downer news cycle" was a factor in its popularity, and argues that "the challenge will be to extract the lessons learned and apply to social media infused fundraising campaigns and be ready to launch during the next negative news cycle."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. The names of organisations have however been anonymized.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

News from Turkey does offer a glimmer of hope. Our last plug is to also take a look at Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s recent report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Measuring one year of giving , which identifies $20.2 billion in global COVID-19 giving by grantmakers and wealthy donors in 2020.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Several of us from TechSoup Global were there to present, participate, and network, and we don't want you to have missed out on a thing! 12 Nonprofit Technology Conference - An Outsider's Perspective from Alicja Peszkowska out of TechSoup Global's Warsaw office, writing on the NetSquared Blog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2011

My organization, Central and Eastern European based Fundacja TechSoup , is part of the TechSoup Global Network that supports the ICT needs of NGOs and public libraries around the world. serves as a safety net when organizations face a major disaster that. further news where business innovation in the cloud meets social.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. blogging job activism

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. This is a facebook page where many organizations across the environment, climate and animal welfare sectors came together to share news, updates, action alerts, and much more after the BP Oil Spill. org before?

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

I thought that would be news to you. We have a global economic meltdown. And we have this thing called the global climate crisis. When disaster strikes and people need water and shelter, they are not usually in a position to pay for that service. We’ve got a lot of problems. It’s kind of daunting. First, charity.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Dozens of crowdfunding platforms make it increasingly easier for people to raise money for any cause, from cancer research to disaster relief, often quite independent of direction from any charity. Both types of efforts, local and global, are strong symbols of a changing world.

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