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10 Tips for Managing Crisis Volunteers in Natural Disasters

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In natural disasters, the training and quick action of first responders and emergency services save lives and livelihoods. But there is another crucial force operating in the background of any natural disaster: crisis volunteers. Spontaneous volunteers—selfless individuals who step up in a crisis—also converge on disaster sites.

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Why the Most Advanced Disaster Relief Software Saves You Time & Money

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Visionlink announces new disaster relief and disaster operations modules, and now all listed on one page to share with your staff and stakeholders. We can refine every solution in hours — not weeks, to match state or local regulations, mandates, and business processes. No custom engineering. Or keep them on cost-saving standby.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. Applied an equity lens: We aim to grant funds with an equity lens, focusing on the needs of historically or currently marginalized and at-risk populations along with more local, on-the-ground organizations.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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How To Help After Hurricane Helene

Bloomerang

Coast Guard, provides disaster assistance and emergency financial support for Coast Guard members. As they have in countless disasters before, the U.S. This fund provides prompt and effective grants to empower local nonprofits and agencies to rescue and recover their own communities amid devastating impacts from Hurricane Helene.

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Join us in St. Louis for the National VOAD Conference!

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We look forward to another engaging conference with the National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD) , in St. Visionlink offers the only disaster solutions that are both pre-built and completely configurable--and designed for collaboration and data exchange from the ground up. Louis, Missouri , from May 8-11, 2023.

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Marshall Fire: Boulder County

VisionLink

We are of course reaching out to local authorities to offer support. Today, as with the first day after any other disaster, people are in shock. Good people always step forward when disasters strike. Update: Boulder County OEM has activated the ColoradoResponds Site with various Visionlink tools.

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