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10 Nonprofits to Support on World Humanitarian Day

EveryAction

Providing tools for sustainable change to populations most vulnerable to hunger, violence, and disease, CARE has earned its place in the hall of fame of nonprofits continuing to make the world a better place. Take for instance its work in helping reduce the incidence of Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5 Oxfam America.

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What You Need to Know About the Largest Vaccine Operation in History

Saleforce Nonprofit

These long-standing partnerships mean that we are best placed to negotiate and manage vaccine procurement with suppliers. Twenty-six percent of Australians are hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and that number is over 50% in our neighboring country of Papua New Guinea.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

Organizations that joined Facebook early on endured the “price of early adoption”—they were the guinea pigs for a platform that was still figuring out just what to do with this form of user. If they’re not, it’s OK to wait—especially if time and energy are scarce. The Price of Early Adoption.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

However, she laments that issues of inclusivity, representation and participation across society remain largely ignored in spite of the rapid growth of the Open Data movement even though they should be placed at the front and centre.

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

You need a backup plan in place for those times when your work is interrupted. If they are one of my neighbors, they’ll be standing outside trying to console a very stressed, worried, and freaked out guinea pig.) How are you putting backup plans in place at your organization? Here’s what I’m thinking about: 1.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

As such, we have more supply than we had demand, and the work places used this as a chance to employe cheap labor.It's brought us to this point where we have a culture of underpaying, or not paying people at, to do professional work. Yet, the market couldn't support the many, many museum studies graduates that came out.

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How to Predict What You’ll Raise by Year-End

NonProfit Hub

For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? For a food bank, you may find new donors through a promotion at your local grocery store (it’s a natural place to donate food), or maybe in a women’s group at a local church (these ladies tend to care about others in need). 3 Main Goals of Year-End Fundraising.

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