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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Weather Channel Alerts 2009 was looking like a very uneventful hurricane season. That is until Hurricane Ida slammed into El Salvador killing 91 people as of this writing. We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

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Exploring Disaster Philanthropy: Part 2

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Corporations, independent and family foundations, and public charities may identify different areas of partnership, but it is apparent from past and current disaster giving that it is essential to work with others to distribute the immediate help that is needed as well as providing long-term relief. Do foundations do the same?

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

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Double-certified neurologist and preventive medicine specialist with a background in public health, working toward the transition to replace the use of animal experimentation with superior human-based testing methods. General counsel and head of CSR at several public and private venture-backed companies, including AOL and Yahoo.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page.

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Conference Site Selection Tips

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As you review proposals, you may be able to convince a venue to hold catering prices at current rates for a meeting a few years in the future, which can represent real savings. When selecting your venue, it’s important to consider the ease of travel by air, train, car, public transportation, etc.

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6 Trends Shaping Corporate Engagement Today

Connection Cafe

As the city of Houston responded to hurricane Harvey, even small collaboratives like Sketch City , jumped in to help, using their skills to develop a custom app to coordinate volunteers, nonprofits and resources. Just last month, a Harvard Business Review article by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The local nonprofit in that case was unknown to the larger world and received little public attention or funding. Why did you start Great Nonprofits ?