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Earth Day 2021: Climate Impacts Everything

Media Cause

Although COVID halted travel and slowed down our manufacturing, climate change continued to fuel raging wildfires and an endless hurricane season. As we celebrate Earth Day 2021, we are recognizing all the ways climate change impacts everything around us—highlighting a new issue each day. This is approximately 2.3

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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

Achieve

Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. is any indication, it is the millennial generation who is standing up and using their voice – and in many different octaves – to combat the hate we are currently witnessing. Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. The horror of Charlottesville. If Achieve’s.

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session included an update of Celgene’s work in patient advocacy and an announcement of their Innovation Impact Awards Program , focused on incorporating the patient voice into pharmaceutical and biotech research and development. Carrie quoted Churchill, “A lie gets half-way around the world before the truth gets its pants on.”

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. Examples from Haiti.

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3 Ways to Engage Community to Drive Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

By elevating the voices of community leaders and shining a light on the importance of climate justice, we can help bridge the connection between policy-level decisions and tangible impacts on local communities. Organizers and leaders should use equity frameworks and seek out local voices to authentically vet new solutions. says Jones.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

We had all these amazing volunteers and food trucks and chefs who had managed their own businesses but lost so much after the hurricane and decided that they wanted to offer their time and resources to WCK. We had over 20,000 volunteers in Puerto Rico alone, most of whom were Puerto Ricans who had been impacted by the hurricane themselves.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

Have Fun - Do Good

With that history we recognized that plug-in hybrid vehicles are an immediate and viable solution to the issues that we have been trying to pressure automakers to acknowledge over the course of this campaign here at RAN.