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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

Every two or three weeks the halls would fill with piercing sounds and flashing lights, and we’d all shuffle sleepily outside. When the alarms went off in my building and the fire trucks arrived, the first thing residents did was call the building manager’s office where their call was received by corporate sounding voicemail.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. Its eight major islands (in terms of landmass) are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), and Irian Jaya (the western half of Papua New Guinea).

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. They sound scary, because who wants to talk to someone?

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