Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

It also uses the iPhone's notification system to alert you when you have a new donation. For example, after Hurricane Sandy, New York City residents could associate their check-ins around the city with donating to a cause of their choice, such as the American Red Cross. These mobile tools help you fundraise on-the-go.

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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. 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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. Birgit Cameron, the global director of Patagonia Provisions, is passionate about the integral role that nature — and specifically soil — will play in saving our planet. So everything we make has a very deep reason for being.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

Climate change is a global, systemic crisis and there are many points of entry.”. At the same time, communities are facing acute climate issues in the here and now, such as losing their homes to a hurricane. To solve the global climate crisis, our next opportunity is to work collaboratively to find ways to scale these endeavors.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

David got really involved in nonprofit database work just after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. After the hurricane displaced hundreds of thousands of people, online survivor registries began appearing on multiple websites. He believes that technology is really just an amplifier or enabler for change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

They recognize that citizens are extremely concerned about global warming. Additionally, there has been a lot of rhetoric on the part of the automakers regarding the greenness of their operations, when in fact what we are seeing is a lot of green-washing. They recognize that green is very vogue right now.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. Objective : Implement an emergency notification system for all the University campus community. Emergency Preparedness.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. 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.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Sharing passwords, shadow IT—and for those who don’t know what “shadow IT” is, essentially, it’s staff members, users, basically going out and evaluating and purchasing and implementing IT applications, programs, systems that have not been approved or been reviewed by anyone in either management or the executive level. It’s very important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Here's a systems way to think about the impact that such contests can create.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

Each year they give prizes ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to 15 people over the age of 60 creating new and innovative ways to tackle tough social problems, from reforming education to improving healthcare, curbing global warming to ending poverty. Her idea is now a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

” In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, nonprofits were asking, “ Why is Facebook asking us to pay to reach volunteers? Here’s a guest post from Global Giving that describes how they used experiments and data to under best practices for Facebook Promoted ads. Set up Experiments! How To Resources.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. But the bottom-line: Cracks are showing everywhere in our increasingly unsustainable economic and environmental global order. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane. Poverty has many causes.

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