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Hackathons Aim to Improve Aid Distribution and Coordination in Haiti

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Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. When the east coast camps took an evening rest, the west coast, and international camps took over. After the 7.0-magnitude

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10NTC: Are Nonprofits the New International Correspondents?

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TechSoup's Carlos Bergfeld was there too, as well as TechSoup forum host Robert Weiner. We chatted about the sad decline in international newspaper correspondents , but Roger suggested that this downturn could open new possibilities for nonprofits. The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. So, you’ve decided to host a peer-to-peer campaign for your faith-based organization—now it’s time to start planning.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. For others it was not so clear.

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The New Culture of Storytelling

Forum One

Since we received such great feedback from last year's session , Roger Burks and I have hosted a series of webinars since the last NTC, focusing on how organizations can leverage online storytelling and maximize social media in the process. Some groups that sent staff writers to document the Haiti Crisis include: International Medical Corps.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 9 2010

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over 40 organizations have and are doing in Haiti. Britt Bravo is hosting the Nonprofit Blog Carnival this month , and she. " Finally, NTEN members are invited to participate in the "Share it Forward" initiative that IdeaEncore is hosting via their nonprofit resource sharing platform. project Haitiaidmap.org.

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

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That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? Now, another way to approach it is with a, like a partner myLIFEpeaks in Haiti, which I’ll be down there on Sunday to close this project out. Sometimes that can be done internally, but sometimes it has to be externally. . That’s one way to approach it. .