Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

In working with most nonprofits, I’ve found that they have a difficult time swallowing the fact that they have to lay out a big fat licensing fee, spend valuable cash on a vertical app or custom development and THEN have to hire highly priced experts or be at the mercy of volunteer DBAs… stuff fraught with disaster and frustration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

In working with most nonprofits, I’ve found that they have a difficult time swallowing the fact that they have to lay out a big fat licensing fee, spend valuable cash on a vertical app or custom development and THEN have to hire highly priced experts or be at the mercy of volunteer DBAs… stuff fraught with disaster and frustration.

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Open Source Database Open Language 100

M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts. Rip from the headlines The news is urgent, tangible, and real. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods That’s the headline on today’s New York Times front page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters. general disaster-interested public. .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Kari: But the good news is, if you are using Bloomerang, you will have a lot of these, or if you’re not, you can start tagging things so that you can. Was it a disaster, an natural disaster that happened that brought them on and they always give to that particular topic or in that particular month when we talk about that topic?

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

For example, say someone wanted to find information on how to donate blood following a natural disaster. That’s an organization that has been active for almost 150 years, and in that time they have become one of the world’s foremost authorities on natural disaster response and blood donations.

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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. To create a new comment, use the form below. Her idea is now a reality.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

This personal info helps ensure that you’re communicating with the donor in a way that shows familiarity and respect. We didn’t practice, and all of that equaled disaster. If a major donor, someone, you reading in the news but they don’t know you from Adam. However, we had not done our research.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

That’s good news! That means making info visually pleasing and easily shareable. We’ve all read news stories about national charities that mismanage funds. We see this a lot after natural disasters when hundreds of thousands of people need aid. Make sure they can tell others about what you do and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

It gives you info on in-season foods, those coming in-season, farmer’s markets, and links to recipes. Tracking Environmental Disasters : The size and scope of environmental disasters appears to be growing. More recently, the BP oil spill set daily records for “ largest environmental disaster in the U.S.

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