Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Any donations that were dropped off at A Family Storage would then be moved in a Cool Box container up to Hurricane Sandy relief centers. We chose to target users who had liked “Charity”, “Charity Events”, “Non-Profit”, “Hurricane Sandy Relief” and many similar variations. Our ad showed up on over 15,000 profiles. Like this article?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. federal agencies, donor-advised funds, and giving platforms.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? Dr. Ruesga began by acknowledging the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Developing: 48%. Strategic/Integrated: 11%.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Just as importantly, we built an environment where people could take risks, change roles, and advance their careers. We made our share of mistakes along the way, but we took measures to correct them as soon as humanly possible. I travelled the country speaking at every nonprofit conference that would have me.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. At this point, social media is changing and growing as much as our environment both physically and politically – the options are so numerous they can be a real cost. What’s Next?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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