Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2023

You can register a disaster food drop-off on their website or sign up to be a disaster response volunteer if you’re in Maui and want to contribute. Give People a Place to Stay The Maui wildfire has destroyed nearly every structure in Lahaina, a town of 13,000 people.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. The leading issue category is health, followed by “public safety,” which includes funding focused on disasters. These grants represent about $2.4

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Blog – Navigating Regulatory Requirements for Disaster and Hardship Relief Funds: A Guide for CSR Leaders. Also, working with HR is key as they often know who has been impacted by a disaster or personal hardship and can remind them to apply or even help them complete the application and get any required back-up documentation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

In the face of humanitarian crises or natural disasters, the generosity of individuals often shines through, leading to a significant influx of donations. Do you have a well-structured monthly giving program to transition donors to recurring donations? How are you segmenting and communicating with donors through personalized journeys?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

A longtime venture capitalist with his DEFTA Partners firm , he wants to help solve social problems using hybrid capital structures that meld nonprofit and for-profit partners. It was a pleasure for me to make the connection with a cool technology play, and see that it was also a cool hybrid financial structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Ushahidi member Patrick Meier interpreted the JRC results as suggesting that "unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2015

In times of episodic giving—whether it is from a recent natural disaster, large in-person fundraising event, viral social media campaign, or your CEO was featured on the TODAY Show—your organization can see an influx of giving 2, 3, or even 100 times your normal volume. Advocacy organizations can see spikes during political battles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

underlying systems and structures that?generate A grant to a university, school, or hospital in a geographic area where people of color might happen to be among the beneficiaries would not be included in this data set. . generate and?reinforce reinforce racial inequality.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money – but we were the age of Aquarius! It’s been met with fear and excitement.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The organization provides relief to those affected by disasters and helps individuals in the community to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. These volunteers provide training in first aid, CPR, and disaster preparedness and give support to those who have lost their homes to disaster.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

Adding a capital fundraising campaign to the already challenging annual goal without increasing staffing capacity is a recipe for disaster. Investing in not only the right system for data management but also in the staffing structure to use it to its highest potential will translate into better communication with and care for your donors.

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Givinga

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The idea is simple: instead of reactively donating to a natural disaster, business leaders should work to solve underlying issues through longer term commitments. These tools will also become tied into a company’s commitment to solve longer range and systemic “cause areas” through designated programs and calls to action.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured. Is this decision based on previous relationships or new issues caused by the disaster? Just like everything else, our metrics and goals are adapting.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

What has been your biggest technology disaster this year? Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! This post was originally published on The Ross Collective ; it is being shared here with the author’s permission. I’m sure we each have stories like this.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Jacob Wood and William McNulty, Team Rubicon – Team Rubicon improves disaster response and helps veterans to reintegrate into civilian life. Embrace’s incubators combine the best of design, business savvy, and science and costs a tiny fraction of the cost for traditional incubators.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

We know from past disasters that the year after a crisis hits can be even harder for nonprofits. The “how” – program models, operational processes, staffing structures – can shift. As a result, this year’s annual strategic planning looks different. Look to skilled volunteerism as a powerful resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is one of the first reports using “Personal Health Data” in aggregate, using data points around sleep tracking to look at a natural disaster. As Jacob Harold mused on Twitter, “In such a moment of something so powerful and scary as an earthquake, technology can only observe.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. It’s a mix of serious and fun content. When not in a disaster, you might see LOLcats doing CPR. A lot of practice on how to move quickly when a disaster strikes. They had social content.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

No matter what happens in the economy or world, be it war, recession or natural disaster, people who can help DO. Look at the following: (1) Does it have an intuitive navigation structure? (2) Giving in the U.S. has hovered around 2% of GDP ever since it began being measured post W.W.II. Some say humans are wired this way.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

TCJA, which took effect on January 1, 2018, ushered in the first comprehensive overhaul of the United States tax structure since 1986. Harking back to December 2017, the House and Senate passed, and the President signed into law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, also known as TCJA or Tax Reform 2017.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Ushahidi ( [link] ) allows people to pool information into online crowdmaps with diverse uses—for example, allowing aid workers to see where resources are most needed after a natural disaster. Not only do they very carefully select who will be in the room, so as to maximize the chances of creative chemistry.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Organizations continue to advocate for long-term commitments to strengthening nonprofits’ financial resiliency while also showing dedication to addressing structural change and racial equity. All in all, these findings do not differ radically from those revealed last summer.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

In Made to Stick , Chip and Dan Heath mention that there are three types of plot structures that you can use to develop or craft your own story. For SXSWCares , a crowdfunding campaign for disaster relief, we worked with the press to get featured in CNN, NYTimes, Forbes, AdAge, and more. This is your typical hero plot.

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Sierra Leone Tips Press Storytelling 68

Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Design Process. Think about your intended audience first when creating a social impact game. (MB).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

We have to respect Mother Nature – and whether we live by the Ocean where Hurricanes can hit or along a fault line where earthquakes can shake down our homes. Do we take natural disaster seriously ? Are we prepared?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

The end game is not a one-size-fits-all solution; it is more about facing the reality that without this flexibility, your business and team are vulnerable to disasters like yesterday morning's commute on the Bay Bridge. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework. Workplace Evolution. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

We might even take for granted and forget about the complex electronic security that protects us from what could be costly and time-consuming disasters. The network application integrates with Active Directory to leverage the organization's existing Windows domain structure and group policies. Awards and Praise. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our session used the following structure. Here, the combination of crisis management and improvisation skills are important, not unlike disaster relief fundraisers. You can read a summary of the viral campaign here and here. Each presenter gave a summary of their campaign as follows: The Genesis: How did it get started?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

We expect the federal, state, and local governments to play a role in educating our children, helping communities rebuild after natural disasters, and improving our collective quality of life. consistent, structural challenges. In the United States, we rely on government to provide key economic supports.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed - for example with text-to-give after disasters. Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money - but we were the age of Aquarius! It's been met with fear and excitement.

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Discussion Generation Donor Structure 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. ” And while she used the term “crisis communications,” she said it was a good crisis.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Applying technology to disaster relief has evolved by leaps and bounds since I joined 2,000 people, most of whom I'd never met, to tackle the problem of creating a single searchable database of every person displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the days after the disaster. Technology Challenges in Katrina Disaster Relief.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Compared to other nonprofit marketing agencies, Meyer Partners has a particularly wide range of expertise, as they support digital and analog communications (and they even do disaster response appeals!). Why They Stand Out.

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