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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. Thankfully, this pandemic will likely inspire a new wave of national service. Now should be no different.

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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. It is part of the design of systems that were built on racism. According to NIFC , in just California alone, 52,113 wildfires burned 8,889,297 acres in 2020. This is approximately 2.3

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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. Before the pandemic, Rhodri Davies, head of policy at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), authored the 2019 white paper, “ Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy, and Artificial Intelligence ,” describing the opportunities.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

National University. Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . National Community Relations and Development Director & National Spokesperson. Leads the engineering product strategy for nonprofits and the United Nations .

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Data centers from big companies like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and so on have redundant backup systems for emergencies, they have teams of people around the world ensuring updates and patches are done, and they're working hard to fight back against any vulnerabilities that hackers may try to exploit. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Jewish Response to New Orleans

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New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. I am on the national Board of Directors of AVODAH and yesterday, in an all-day meeting in New York, we decided to greenlight the expansion to New Orleans. But here we are, two years later. New Orleans is in trouble.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

I talked with Jodie Van Horn, a campaigner for Rainforest Action Network 's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area about the plug-in campaign in the Bay Area as well as the national Freedom from Oil Campaign. Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.