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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Putting this best practice into action, in 2019—two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico—the Amgen Foundation awarded $257,500 to the University of Puerto Rico for rebuilding efforts. . Nonprofits need support to engage in activities that influence disaster-related policies. Support local nonprofits and knowledge in the U.S.

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An Interview with Perla Ni, CEO and Founder of Great Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perla Ni, Ceo and Founder of Great Nonprofits 1. Why did you start Great Nonprofits ? When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was the publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review , and we wanted to write a story about how nonprofits were helping the victims. I've known nonprofits personally as a client of their services.

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Why You Need Diversified Fundraising For Your Small Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

To fully fund your nonprofit, you need a diversified fundraising stream. Getting your funds from multiple sources is especially important when fundraising for a new nonprofit. In developing different revenue streams, you’re building a solid foundation that’ll ensure your nonprofit’s growth and success for many years.

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13+ Lovely Valentine’s Day Fundraising Ideas and Strategies for 2022

Whole Whale

Let’s take a second to play a quick association game: Think about a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. What is the first nonprofit to come to mind? But which nonprofit owns #ValentinesDay? Plus, which nonprofit puts a box in the entryway of the corporate entrance? Online training for nonprofits.

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An Inside View of Harnessing Technology to Support Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

Applying technology to disaster relief has evolved by leaps and bounds since I joined 2,000 people, most of whom I'd never met, to tackle the problem of creating a single searchable database of every person displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the days after the disaster. Hurricane Katrina LA4 / News Muse / CC BY-NC-ND.

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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. For many years, I've organized a pre-conference event called the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their expertise or volunteer for a local organization on a specific project.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

I’m with Nonprofit Quarterly , and I direct our Advancing Practice program. Our organization is a nonprofit, and we are on a mission to use technology to better serve the world. But for now, let us go into a poll, and our Nonprofit Quarterly friends are launching that right now. But they’re not really from a nonprofit angle.

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