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Helping Haiti: Places to Donate, Creative Fundraising Ideas, and Being a Smart Donor

Have Fun - Do Good

When I posted about How to Help Haitian Earthquake Survivor s on Tuesday evening, there wasn't much information out yet about how to help, but now there are lots of posts and articles with lists of organizations you can donate to like: Helping Haiti. avoid newly-formed charities and give to an established charity that has worked in Haiti, 2.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. For others it was not so clear.

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Give a Little Bit at the Day of Service

NTEN

There are more than a few things to do at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. How did the Red Cross system work for Haiti? Group #035 - Green Chamber of the South. for engaging college students, faculty, and nonprofits, to involve them in helping develop, implement, and evaluate Research Matchmaker. Consult Details: 1.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

partner, InterConnection, a nonprofit computer refurbisher in Seattle. InterConnection is a nonprofit refurbisher that has figured out how to do two things very, very well. InterConnection now supplies RCI with warrantied laptops and desktop computers that go to nonprofits and libraries in the United States.

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How Online Work Can Save America

Tech Soup

In February of 2011, TechSoup Global board member and founder of the nonprofit Samasource , Leila Chirayath Janah published a piece in TechCrunch that explores an unusual aspect of telework. Over the past two years, Samasource has employed over 900 people in Asia, Africa, and post-earthquake Haiti.

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Nonprofit Technology News for August 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Google Gmail.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

Hey, I’m Brian O’Neal executive director of Third Lens Ministries a nonprofit based in Atlanta. And we provide program management services to other nonprofits. And that’s a group of organizations, nonprofits who are relatively new in their fundraising and really new to the capital campaign landscape.