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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Blackbaud Index for April 2011

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billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second round of the contest opened on January 15th and the pre-contest promotion on January 14th on the contest fan page was met with a chorus of "Vote for Haiti." Chase had, in face, already donated to the relief efforts, although the link to the corporate press release was not posted on the Fan Page all until two days later.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s why the Red Cross was so successful with their text message donation campaign during the Haiti crisis. Dutch native Marc van Bree is a public relations practitioner with more than 5 years of experience communicating—on and offline—in the nonprofit and cultural environment. Technology and ease of process is very important.

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Disaster Giving and The Blackbaud Index

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This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Some important trends will be explored later to show analysis of post-Haiti giving.

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Blackbaud Index for March 2011 | Nonprofit Trends with Steve.

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billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors.