Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. I started watching a lot of CNN before the election. Her nonprofit St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. A few days later Hurricane Ike slammed into Texas and the remainder of the HAM-up events had to be postponed. Tell me about you. I'm a wordaholic.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In TechSoup's disaster planning and recovery guide , we recommend a 2x2x2 strategy for your mission-critical data, whether you're preparing for a hurricane or for a hacker. If the office gets flooded because the sprinklers went off when a colleague burned popcorn in the office microwave, then you're out of luck.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Then, as now, drawing comics for a living was a stressful, physically taxing, creatively exhausting job. And work — as in, they get the job done and keep the creative process moving forward. And we are bracing for yet another intense, potentially deadly hurricane season. These 22 panels are designed to “always work.”

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Using the expertise of its Chef Network, WCK works to empower people to be a part of the solution with a focus on health, education, jobs, and disaster relief. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Let’s take a second to play a quick association game: Think about a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. UNICEF has done an incredible job dominating this holiday with their trick-or-treat donation boxes. Toys for Tots does an amazing job of capitalizing on the toy purchasing to give deserving kids gifts.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And again, you know, Steven did a fantastic and overly generous job of introducing us. And like Jackie said, we met because we were both hired to work on an account that the agency was losing, and our job was to turn it around or they were going to lose us and the client. This is Jackie. Jackie: All right. Was it an Easter campaign?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Harnessing Databases for Disaster Relief. David got really involved in nonprofit database work just after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. After the hurricane displaced hundreds of thousands of people, online survivor registries began appearing on multiple websites. CRM for Nonprofits: CiviCRM and NetSuite. project.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

– that they need to do their jobs. #4 Make sure that you can always get your hands on backup copies of the data from all of your business systems in the event of a disaster. This covers everything from finding the right software to run your business to finding the right people to maintain your software. Reliability. The Internet?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy relief efforts continue, I'm reminded of the significant negative impact that poor weather can have on a fundraising event. our job as event fundraisers is to plan in advance for the potential. Catastrophe immediately before event – hurricane. closing your doors. closing your doors. organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. CharityWater's BrandedFundraising Network: Has done an impressive job raising money - over $200,000 to date. The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video. Good Reads: Online.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

The prize is the only program in the country focused on promoting and encouraging the work of social innovators over 60, like: Wilma Melville , a 74-year-old, retired physical education teacher, who won $100,000 for creating The National Disaster Search Foundation. Her idea is now a reality.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? Remote work.

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