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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent,” according to the UN Environment Programme , exacerbated by climate change and land-use changes. CDP’s Cari Cullen describes a derecho as a “storm with hurricane-force winds in a place where the infrastructure isn’t built for hurricane-force winds.”

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

Saleforce Nonprofit

In the past, the climate crisis was mainly the concern of environment and conservation organisations. Apply Pressure to Limit Global Warming to 1.5 Collaboration is key to solving the climate crisis, and cross-sector partnerships are unlocking innovation and systems change. Learner juggling caretaking with school work.

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How Technology Helped Zero to Three + Harold Grinspoon Foundation Through A Crisis

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This in-depth roundtable discussion focused on how these organizations have navigated the tectonic technological terrain created by the global pandemic, and what life will, or should, look like for nonprofits post-pandemic. The Impact on Nonprofits Post-Pandemic.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. But when that system failed too, I realized I had not bothered to get the street address of where they would be. None of the bridges on or off Long Island were open.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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Radical Collaboration is Our Best Chance to Fight Climate Change

Saleforce Nonprofit

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. It’s no longer a question of whether the impacts on the environment of our collective human actions over decades will continue to result in more extreme weather, natural disasters, and economic instability.

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3 Ways to Engage Community to Drive Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Climate change is a global, systemic crisis and there are many points of entry.”. Rather than having experts present on why energy efficiency would be good for the community and the environment, they held a series of open houses to allow neighbors to talk to each other. says Jones. Principle 3: Design for Reuse.