AFP Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Google launches crisis map anticipating hurricane Isaac | Fox News : To do its part, Google has launched the new website aggregating info on tropical storm Isaac as part of its Crisis Response project.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is especially true for mass marketing messages and broad fundraising appeals for monumental events like hurricanes or earthquakes. Or, like Feeding America, you can build donor preferences into your website , a smart fix. But the data doesn’t always support that view. Customized appeals always raise more revenue.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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. . disaster philanthropy website. . But recovery can take years, and strategic disaster philanthropy requires taking the long view. .

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

Photo featured on the Hope for Haiti website. With six earthquakes, 132 floods, 56 hurricanes, and 96 tornadoes under their belt, the organization is actively planning their relief efforts in Haiti. Photo featured on the Team Rubicon website. Get real-time updates on social media: Instagram: @hopeforhaiti . Team Rubicon.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. Google's Hurricane Sandy map currently shows areas with power outages.

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DipJar

APRIL 20, 2021

During this time, the eggs can be eaten by predators, damaged by tropical storms and hurricanes, exposed by beach goers digging on the beach, and more. If you want to learn more about LMC or support its mission, please visit the Center’s website. Once the eggs have been laid, they incubate for 60-90 days.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

“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? Is your website mobile responsive? .

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Every year we face natural disasters from fires to hurricanes to earthquakes to tornadoes and flooding. These include troubleshooting IT issues and knowing who to call; the ability to log in to all major software systems weather hosted internally or online; the ability to update the website, social media channels and send emails.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2014

Hurricane season kicked off on June 1 and we’ve already got our first tropical depression in the Atlantic. A disaster can be as big as a hurricane or as small as a water main break that floods your office and surrounding neighborhood. Who will be in charge of making updates to social media and the website? Assign duties.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The PRC accepts donations via PayPal or through UShare on its website. After Hurricane Sandy, we compiled a list of general IT safety tips to help you recover hardware and IT equipment after a disaster. Donate to Organizations Providing Relief. The Philippine Red Cross is on the ground providing relief to those in affected areas.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

For example, the San Francisco Public Library's website has a page that curates local services and resources on preparing for and dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake. A "disaster" doesn't necessarily have to mean a fire, earthquake, hurricane, or other natural occurrence.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2013

The idea of being a finalist seemed within reach, because it’s so easy to go the website and simply click ‘vote’ right? Isaac Kiehl is the communications coordinator at ICAN: Positive Programs for Youth, an East Valley-based nonprofit youth program, and manages the ICAN website and social media. If you realize. Like this article?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We're all familiar with it, a message saying "Help the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. You can use Connect2Give to: Create a mobile website for collecting donations and sharing information about your organization without having to deal with app development. Mobile websites are specifically designed for small screens.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

When Hurricane Sandy hit, they launched a successful text-to-give campaign and realized that social media is the perfect companion to texting. Text messaging is a low-cost way of maintaining contact with donors by sending updates and links to websites and progress reports.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I have to admit that the venerable Association of Fundraising Professionals website was one of the last places I looked to find fresh interesting coverage of fundraising technology, but I have mended my ways. His " Hot Tops " section of the AFP website aggregates information based on those conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " The year was 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

can be customized to meet your organization's needs and run on either a new or existing website. For example, after Hurricane Sandy, New York City residents could associate their check-ins around the city with donating to a cause of their choice, such as the American Red Cross. The Shopify service (available through TechSoup!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Bernard that is providing hurricane survivors with the recovery resources they need in a safe and all-inclusive setting. On the right sidebar of every page of our website there's a link to "Shop Online" which takes you to a page that explains how Maatiam works and has links to our Maatiam page. Meet Sharon S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

I learned a new word: “ Cybercondria ” or the unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one’s health brought on by visiting health and medical websites. Stefani gave an overview of health care technology trends and some projects that Google is working on.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

With social media platforms and a dynamic website, you can spread the word about your mission easily and attract new potential donors quickly. Instead, with online fundraising, you can be sure that most of the money you raise will go directly towards your mission. With virtual fundraising, it’s also much easier to expand your reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2007

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. Using our website, they can - for free - turn all that goodwill into stories of impact. Perla Ni, Ceo and Founder of Great Nonprofits 1.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

Freecycle Network is a website, Freecycle.org, but may be better said, it's a web community. So we have probably eight different teams of people, either approving new groups or helping existing groups, or handling tech issues on the website. We're redesigning the website with two things in mind. They really know Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

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. spanhidden.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Maybe your organization helped over one hundred hurricane survivors find temporary housing. Donors should be able to go directly to a link where they can give, not to the home page of your website where they’ll have to dig to find the donation page. Your letter must address what your donor wants to know and what warms her heart.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

David got really involved in nonprofit database work just after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. After the hurricane displaced hundreds of thousands of people, online survivor registries began appearing on multiple websites. Harnessing Databases for Disaster Relief.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

surviving Mother Nature’s wrath: tornado, hurricane, flood, fire. Find out if your web hosting provider regularly backs up your website, and how recovery is handled if needed. We don’t mean the power-surge-ate-my-blog-post kind of disaster, though. frequent backups can help there. inaccessible?

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

For more detail, read How Cloud Storage Works on the howstuffworks website. It doesn’t matter if “disaster” means a hurricane that wipes out a data center, or an idiot technician that erases the memory on the servers on which your software resides. Make sense? It is a little dated, but still very good.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So if you’re shopping for software or maybe you’re in the market or just curious about us, visit our website. You can find out more in our website, so we’ll just breeze over that. you know, when Puerto Rico had that hurricane, you know, that was huge here. That’s what Bloomerang is. It was huge.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2014

During my 4 years at both the local and national level, I worked on several disaster operations— from the house fire in the middle of the night to some of the most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the US. On the anniversary of the challenge, implement an appreciation campaign using email, social media, website, video and thank-a-thons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. Due to the increasing amount of dangerous hurricane like Katrina, Gustav and Ike, the CDC recently created a mobile Web site to further assist during times of emergency. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. 7 Reasons Why SMEs Say They Don’t Need a Good Website – and 7 Reasons Why They’re Wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. will have the opportunity to earn a spot on the GlobalGiving website if they mobilize supporters to raise $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I see that there is a major tipping point happening in the global climate change movement and consciousness of global warming, thanks in part to Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth , and simply the manifestations that we have seen from hurricanes to melting icecaps, and that it's a time that I could not be working on anything else but this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

or another entity working to rescue and reunite hurricane-affected pets with their families. Or, you can just dedicate blog space to listing websites where people can donate money (maybe even challenge people to match your donation), or share a story of a hurricane survivor.

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