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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Nancy Schwartz has an fantastic blog post offering expert advice on how nonprofits should communicate during a crisis, using the situation in Baltimore and the Nepal Earthquake as hooks to offer some recommendations. The CDP Nepal Earthquake Recovery Fund focuses on medium- and long-term rebuilding and recovery.

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Please Donate to Help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The devastating earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 2,400 people and injured about 5,900, residents so far (as reported in the NY Times on Sunday). Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now. earthquake in Nepal. Robert has been working the last year or so from Nepal.

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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. They can also get the reports right from the survey. Cori O’Brien (CO): Trish, you brought Grassroots Mobile Survey to The Commons. What inspired you to share what you had built?

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day.

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Is Your Organization Prepared to Dodge Donor Data Disasters?

Connection Cafe

Giving during episodic events, such as to the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal, is truly extraordinary. You also most likely have some experience with accepting and tracking financial gifts from donors to a charitable organization. A fundamental part of tracking financial gifts is through the use of accounting codes.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

I always like to get the weather report. In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report. And it represents the highest year of giving on record since the Giving Institute began tracking this data more than 60 years ago.