VisionLink

MAY 8, 2023

We look forward to another engaging conference with the National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD) , in St. Visionlink offers the only disaster solutions that are both pre-built and completely configurable--and designed for collaboration and data exchange from the ground up. Louis, Missouri , from May 8-11, 2023.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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VisionLink

MAY 3, 2022

With last year's conference 100% virtual, this year will be extra-exciting for us as we connect with longtime friends and collaborate as an association of organizations that mitigate and alleviate the impact of disasters. We are proud to provide the DART Disaster Agency Response Technology platform to NVOAD. We are Ready!

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Introducing a toxic personality into your team is a recipe for disaster. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a tool that helps develop self-awareness and insight into how individuals prefer to interact and communicate. The IT wiz will not be effective if no one wants to listen to him. One person can poison an entire organization.

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VisionLink

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Today, as with the first day after any other disaster, people are in shock. Good people always step forward when disasters strike. Update: Boulder County OEM has activated the ColoradoResponds Site with various Visionlink tools. We are of course reaching out to local authorities to offer support. You can visit it here: [link]

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Denver Disaster Local Course 130

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While you may never find yourself in a crisis of this magnitude at your nonprofit, you can learn from Southwest’s mistakes and use those lessons to prepare for a potential disaster. Infrastructure includes more than just the tools you use. So, you’ve got your tools in place. Keep reading to learn more. What happened?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more.

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VisionLink

APRIL 26, 2022

Meet our senior customer advocate, Eric Jones, who will be available to discuss Visionlink tools and features, provide demos, and help you learn about the most advanced, comprehensive platform for community success. We do coordinated care for real, with multi-program, multi-agency collaborative tools that go way beyond closed loop referrals.

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Conference Disaster Fun Collaboration 130

Forum One

JUNE 6, 2013

Social media has become an important tool in helping to plan for, assess, and recover from disasters. Here are some examples of how social media has improved disaster relief. Social media has become an important tool in helping to plan for, assess, and recover from disasters. Influence Social Media'

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Disaster Social Media Media Social 72

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I have a guest post up on the NTEN blog discussing some of the ways social media was put into action as soon as the earthquakes struck in Haiti: When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing.

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Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 114

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As we enter the beginning of disaster season, it can’t help but feel like we have already been in disaster season all year long. And while no one can predict when or where a disaster will occur, data continues to back being prepared over-responding after the fact. Educate Your People on Disaster Preparedness.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

project has a slew of resources for both responders and those affected by disasters. Tweak the Tweet is a layered map that shows the locations of disaster-related Twitter hashtags. Recovers.org is a simple tool that helps affected communities create websites to organize disaster recovery efforts. More Resources.

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VisionLink

MAY 18, 2023

VIEW THE FULL PRESS RELEASE Visionlink is pleased to support 988 systems with advanced technology and tremendously flexible, easy-to-use tools and assessments available as part of our advanced Crisis Care Management module on Visionlink 's Community Operating System® or, CommunityOS™.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Comprehensive website security includes an entire suite of tools to shield against data breaches, service disruption, and malware infections. We recommend that you create a disaster recovery plan to put into effect in the event your company is caught up in a DDoS Attack. It shields the email system, network, and server.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2011

What few are aware of, however, is that the Windows Azure platform also has the capability of serving communities that have been affected by disasters. The portal would allow emergency response teams, municipal actors, and other community agencies to use mapping, social media, translation, and other tools for online communications.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 5, 2015

Disaster preparedness is something every nonprofit and public library needs to be on top of — whether you deal with disaster relief directly or not. Sometimes the communities you serve are affected by disaster, and there's also the chance that your own organization could face some sort of disaster. 3D printing.

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VisionLink

MARCH 23, 2020

The COVID-19 Frontline Guide is intended to provide these leaders and public officials with a web-based decision support tool and progress indicators to assist in informed decision-making on how to combat COVID-19 in their jurisdictions. You can access the guide here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This edition of the App It Up project "Cool App Roundup" highlights different ways apps can be used in disaster, crisis, and emergency situations. Preparing for Disaster. The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps. How About You?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 6, 2023

Text-to-Donate , also sometimes called Text-to-Give or text fundraising , is a tool that allows your nonprofit to receive donations by contacting individuals in your organization’s donor list via text message. In conclusion Use tools like Text-to-Donate to cultivate relationships with the community you serve.

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Donation Donor Mobile Disaster 119

Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Then the key disaster preparedness concern becomes communication, not system and data preservation. Here's what they said.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . social tools + people = lives saved. . Now they have the tools.

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Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

VisionLink

AUGUST 28, 2019

Visionlink is proud to support the work of National VOAD's Project Comeback in Texas with our multi-agency Disaster Case Management solution, helping more than 700 case managers from 14 nonprofit partners assist more than 12,000 households.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

63% are worried about the security risks posed by AI 58% are worried about this really steep learning curve that their entire team has to go through to understand how to use generative AI The last point highlights a perceived challenge that, in practice, becomes less daunting once users engage with tools like Copilot.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Integrate a matching gift search tool directly into the donation process. Donors can use the tool to research their employers’ match programs and determine their eligibility. Companies Are Prioritizing Disaster Relief and Crisis Response. Ensure staff can answer donors’ questions about matching gifts.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2014

After working at the Red Cross for nearly 4 years, I learned a long time ago that real disasters aren’t always the ones you see coming. Does your organization need a disaster fundraising plan? A disaster can be as big as a hurricane or as small as a water main break that floods your office and surrounding neighborhood.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While it will have astounding impacts in the richest countries, it also has the potential to help poorer countries leapfrog technologies and jump straight to some of the most advanced tools available. Disaster Response – Using satellite and weather data, countries will be able to better predict disasters.

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International Develop Help Disaster 71

.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A global biological disaster was unique in our current experience. But scenarios are also a tool that can be used to evaluate longer-term initiatives. Scenario planning and other decision-making frameworks are tools for managing uncertainty. It’s a word that deserves a prominent place in every management team’s playbook.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Learn more Measure program outcomes in real time Built-in reporting Bonterra’s native reporting tool empowers grants administrators to measure program outcomes, not just outputs. Integrate our analytics tool directly into workflows to drive real-time automation, decision-making, and consistency across your entire grants management process.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. How can we do that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

One talked about species extinction, and the other talked about the prevalence of natural disasters. The one talking about natural disasters was responsible for 80% of your donors, and 10% of those donors went on to become regular givers when you asked them 2 weeks later. You’d want to know that right?

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TechImpact

JANUARY 17, 2014

In recent years, nonprofits have begun to utilize this powerful tool to connect with their target audiences and increase thier overall reach. It has shaped the way we interact with others, plan events, and at no monetary value instantly connects us to millions of people. Image courtesy of RAD Campaign and Craig Connects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. We are seeing it to help donors make decision about COVID funding and other disaster related donation decisions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Have you checked out TechSoup's new Disaster Planning and Recovery Toolkit ? We've updated and expanded our downloadable book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery , and hosted two webinars on disaster planning.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 20, 2023

With more than three decades of experience in disasters and humanitarian assistance with data management solutions, we would suggest that efficient and effective relief operations need to organize around a central registry or clearinghouse. Mental health is an acute need after a disaster like this. The main lesson?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

Qgiv

JUNE 28, 2022

No nonprofit is immune to disasters. Whether it be a fire, a natural disaster, a supply shortage, or another unforeseen circumstance, it’s important that nonprofits be able to respond quickly to continue providing the services they offer. Link text fundraising tools to the emergency donation page.

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