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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

The site was hosted on [link] , which used a URL and design that supported a strong sense of community around the campaign. This included SXSW organizers, the Red Cross, Hurricane Party, the Hanson Brothers, and many more to promote the campaign. Many of them were really driven by the community. What you will change the next time?

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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Digital Strategy

Bloomerang

Did you host virtual events ? . Very soon technology will improve donor participation and retention by making it ridiculously easy to give…Technology will allow donors to do what they want to do anyway…We’re two decades into the internet era; why is it still easier to buy a book about hurricanes than help a storm’s victims?

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. The work included daily updates to the press and web site about how much was raised, addressing questions, and correcting false perceptions about slacktivists.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Katrina – Two Years Later

See3

For everything that this administration will be remembered for, and we don’t have to go down the list, the response to Hurricane Katrina will surely be near the top of the list. Can you imagine that debris hasn’t even been cleared, two years after the hurricane? Well… about that. It is hard to imagine.

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3 Ways to Engage Community to Drive Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

To build trust, consider questions like these when seeking community validation: Are you inviting an inclusive, diverse group of people to take part in consultations and planning? If you’re hosting community meetings online, do potential participants have internet access? If meeting in person, do they have access to transportation?

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Radical Collaboration is Our Best Chance to Fight Climate Change

Saleforce Nonprofit

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. It’s no longer a question of whether the impacts on the environment of our collective human actions over decades will continue to result in more extreme weather, natural disasters, and economic instability.

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Changing Civic Engagement In New Orleans One Video Blog Post at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have just returned from a week in New Orleans where I participated in the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The video bloggers have learned that the school is actually located on top of the Agriculture Street Landfill, an infamous Superfund site in New Orleans what was used as a dump and incinerator site after Hurricane Betsy.

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