Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

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? Download the report. What if it didn't have to be that way?

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South Africa Disaster Hurricane Pakistan 50

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). Can’t wait!

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Does your disaster relief team have the private space to plan and the public tools to get out important bulletins? Thanks to some serious development effort, we will be able to launch Community Operating System Portals with a click. This is not a small thing. Need to focus on Elder Care?

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Community Organization Literacy Module 100

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Photo by Trav Williams. Here’s what we did: 1.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Joan sent us a note tonight thanking us, but also letting us know of a terrible natural disaster in her country: Hey Harry and Beth, I just celebrated my 26th birthday today! The Daily Green reported on its initial impact, when 11 were reported dead.) Reports suggest 15,000 are homeless because of the storm, and 22 dead.

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Madagascar Disaster Green Help 50

Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Today is a milestone: Candid and Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) are launching our 10 th annual Advancing Human Rights report. Building on a decade of collaborative research , the latest report contributes to our collective understanding of where and how funding supports human rights action around the world.

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Collaboration Report Impact North America 98

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. There was one database of projects, one set of guidelines for project management and shared progress-tracking system across boundaries, time zones, and domains of expertise.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. There was one database of projects, one set of guidelines for project management and shared progress-tracking system across boundaries, time zones, and domains of expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Success means using metrics to learn how to improve practice effectively, both to identify obstacles and track progress. The action learning project will be designed to help grantees build a habit of measurement, reflection, and organizational learning.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. Quite the opposite. What does it look like? Obviously, we can all picture a car.

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Build Community Technology Action 220

.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

Are reports easy to produce and access? It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners. Digging into the data can help you identify whether the statistics you currently track are advancing your goals or if you need to begin gathering different numbers.

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Technology Evaluation System Associations 170

Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

This software features built-in wizards to help structure your presentation’s narrative and build libraries of standard graphics and slide elements (like logos and maps). This service lets anyone with web access print mailing labels or stamps with a bar code for tracking. Read how nonprofits and libraries are using the software.

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Program Donation Library Product 47

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It Ensures Continuity in a Worst-Case Scenario A content plan serves as insurance against disaster. Report The Nonprofit Email Report Learn More What Counts as Content? It can be an email, a Tweet, a TikTok video, a report, a slideshow, a speech by an executive, or a donor thank-you note. So first, plan your strategy.

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Calendar Content Strategy Cancer 52

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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Puerto Rico Haiti Guatemala Hawaii 75

NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Many of them track us automatically: Nike Plus tracks my run, Mint.com tracks my finances and spending patterns, and TripIt neatly organizes my travel plans. Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. Our Stories. What data is meaningful?

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Storytelling Story Mobile North Korea 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. But the fact was I kept tracking, never loafing, never slacking. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters.

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ROI Social Media Slides Media 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What do you track? Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Start mapping out the key steps for making the most of your database several months in advance to ensure that you can enter the holiday giving season with a strong foundation. Some characteristics to consider tracking include cross-program donors, disaster/news event responsive donors, and demographics—like gender, education, and income.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. I anticipate that amount to increase when we get the reports of 2021, and I’ll tell you exactly why. You’re going to see a big map of the U.S. Big map of the U.S. Now, some of you are probably like, “Oh, that sounds like a disaster.”

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 97

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Though it should have been rush hour, there was no traffic, no helicopters reporting on stalled cars or construction. I still hadn’t been able to talk to my husband, but my mother-in-law had gotten word to him that we were headed East on I-10, and he was able to track my progress via our online, real-time credit card statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike.

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Pakistan Help Kenya Giving 94

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Celebrate News Technology Nonprofit 90

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. Nothing about the tasks in and of themselves reveals their purpose.

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