Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Ida is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Alabama/Florida border late Monday or early Tuesday. We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link].

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MAY 2, 2011

The National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster have engaged (and we are standing up a site for their work in Alabama), as are the members of the Coordinated Assistance Network. Friends and family can find one another at Safe and Well , and can check the status of local shelters here.

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The Verge

MARCH 2, 2021

The news comes nearly a year after Glitch workers voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America Local 1101. In Alabama, Amazon has been running a brutal anti-union campaign for months as warehouse workers in Bessemer organize.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2019

The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. Their next launches will be in Massachusetts and Alabama this year.—Julie

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JULY 22, 2021

Some major victories were also won on both the local and federal levels in getting government recognition and support around digital access. Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

As an alternative, voters can always use our 50 state map to find their state’s official poll finder tool or the phone number for their local election office. 45 states have online registration lookup tools, and calling your local election office is always an option (again, use our 50 state map to get links and numbers).

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s designed to help the Teamsters roll out a unified strategy across its 500 local unions. We’ve been working on this for quite some time—well before Bessemer broke out,” he said, referring to the recent union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. Korgan told Motherboard the union has been planning the campaign for years.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Amazon workers claim they weren’t all properly alerted as what they thought was smoke filled the third floor at a Bessemer, Alabama warehouse on Friday, according to a report from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) (via Input ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

Others will be open for walk-in customers and we encourage everyone to check their local store webpage for more information about hours at their preferred location. Those include stores in Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, and South Carolina, which were part of the first wave of Apple Store reopenings that began earlier in May.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

The drivers are instead employees of local delivery companies that are contracted by Amazon through its Delivery Service Partners program. That by itself wouldn’t be remarkable, but it’s worth noting that these policies are applied to drivers that don’t work for Amazon, and so reach much further than the company’s official employee base.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2011

It started in earnest about 4 pm and we watched the local weather broadcast until nearly midnight, with one tornado warning after another. Our local rescue squad mobilized immediately and drove an hour south to help one of the hardest hit areas in Tennessee. Church groups are collecting supplies and driving to Alabama to help.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Arrived acts as the asset manager and partners with property management companies to find renters and manage the local day-to-day rental operations. Those property management companies market the properties locally and Arrived “customizes the leasing criteria.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“This data-driven supply-acquisition strategy, combined with local real estate knowledge on the ground, ensures that the moment Ukio launches in a new city, we are able to quickly and efficiently acquire a pipeline of high-quality apartments.” ” Ukio co-founders Jeremy and Stanley Fourteau.

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DipJar

JUNE 24, 2021

Other local businesses, too, have demonstrated their support for the missions of both Dallas Animal Services and the FODAS. Fortunately, corporate partners play a key role in supporting the shelter during times like these. PetSmart hosted a series of “Pup-up” adoption events in their stores to help shelter animals get exposure and adopted.

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NTEN

MAY 19, 2009

They provide a local network of nonprofit and tech professionals for the purpose of sharing information, resources, recommendations, and locally-relevent announcements for jobs and nptech events, among other things. . Basically, 501 Tech Clubs are a type of Affinity Group defined by geographical region.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. A newer kid on the block, PieLab is a community center and pie shop in rural Alabama, started by a group of designers who believe that design can improve the world one small community at a time.

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Candid

MAY 20, 2024

The need for capacity building In 2020, the Black Women’s Mental Health Institute was a volunteer-led nonprofit in Birmingham, Alabama. For philanthropists looking to invest in locally led authentic solutions that deliver results and measurable change, general operating support grants are that pathway forward.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the height of Amazon’s labor battle in Bessemer, Alabama, there was no way to distinguish between workers who actually represented Amazon, and those who were posting satirically. Twitter hadn’t anticipated the authenticity of rank-and-file workers would ever be up for scrutiny. In April, I wrote about the case of Amazon’s Twitter army.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In addition to organizing NetSquared events on topics such as how to get going with website tools like WordPress and Google Analytics, and creating a Salesforce database, Margaux helped organize Orlando Gives, in which six local nonprofit organizations got together to create a culture of giving in their city. Find your local NetSquared group.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Both of them joining us actually in a room together, which is awesome from beautiful Alabama. And joining him also from Alabama is Brian O’Neil. I’m with Bright Street Solutions, a full-service consulting and placement firm in Birmingham, Alabama. As Steven mentioned, living in Alabama. You doing okay? .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Some are working on reinvention: Huntsville , the Alabama town famous for its history with NASAs rocketry program, has remarketed itself as a music, arts, and cultural destination; while Hilliard , an Ohio city of less than 40,000 in the Columbus area, continues to build out infrastructure to incubate innovative startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A wning customers are paired with advisors to determine their investment strategy, and Awning’s local agents “qualitatively” review every property. Later this year, Awning plans to launch in Florida and Alabama, and then other markets over the next year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

You can also find volunteer opportunities at your local public school by contacting a school district, a school, or a teacher and asking how you can help. If you're a parent, the local PTA may have ways for you to get involved as well. You can find more information about the various chapters and how to volunteer with them at www.826national.org.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Sweet Home Alabama Reese Witherspoon is simply sublime as Melanie, a high-powered fashion designer about to marry the mayor of NYC's son (Patrick Dempsey). And, you know, he's gotten pretty handsome in the years since she left… Sweet Home Alabama is peak 2000s rom-com. How to watch: Sweet Home Alabama is now streaming on Hulu.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The paper investigates the effect of civic engagement indicators on economic indicators to explore if and where civic engagement strengthened local economies. These states are Arizona, California, Alabama, Florida, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Delaware. The paper importantly notes that correlations found in the research are preliminary.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Former employees said the firing of meteorologists who make crucial local forecasts across the U.S. The bull’s-eye for a heightened risk of severe weather was an area stretching from east Texas to Alabama thats home to more than seven million people. could put lives at risk.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2021

And The Wall Street Journal reported that an Alabama police department was also using Clearview to identify faces in images from the riot and sending information to the FBI. According to the Times , the Miami Police Department is using Clearview to identify some of the rioters, sending possible matches to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

” For the two founders, the new funding is the latest step in a long journey that began in the woods of Northern Alabama, where Parisa grew up. If we do that, the total potential for forests is around 4 to 5 gigatons per year (with some estimates as high as 9 gigatons).”

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 27, 2025

Example of This Communication Channel Allegiance Group + Pursuant client Alabama Public Television (APT) launched an outbound text campaign to drive revenue for the organization. For example, they might use TikTok to view funny skits and Facebook to keep up with family members and local events. Focus on the hook.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Marco Rubio (R-FL) made a surprise endorsement of a fledgling union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. In one incident, Amazon managers worked with local county officials to alter the timing on a streetlight near the warehouse , a move union organizers believe was made in order to hamper the union campaign.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Local Motors no longer exists with the exception of one last asset: its domain name. The Indy Autonomous Challenge racecar, which was programmed by team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama, set a new land speed world record of 192.2 miles per hour at the historic Kennedy Space Center.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For example, a 2011 Alabama law called HB-56 directed local police officers to investigate the immigration status of drivers stopped for speeding. That law and its resulting effects prompted some Alabama-based immigrant workers to leave the state following workplace raids. billion to $10.8

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

My wife owns an ice cream shop here in Canada, and she wanted to basically find a bunch of local people that would explore her ice cream shop. There’s a tab now where you can find and discover new local businesses, or you can discover Black-owned businesses, or you can discover women-owned businesses and stuff.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

As Leah Nylen noted in that report: “Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company.”. Here’s a map of more than 400 hyperpartisan sites masquerading as local news. The company also said workers wouldn’t be disciplined for falling short of quotas based on how many tasks they complete each hour. Industry. ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Shes also a 2020 MacArthur Fellow for environmental health advocacy and, in 2011, worked with the United Nations special rapporteur to expose environmental injustices in Lowndes County, Alabama, where she grew up, and across the southern U.S. I think about Alabama. Is there hope for state or local action? Last week, U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.) Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company. All of the individuals spoke on condition of anonymity to talk openly about a confidential probe.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For now, Priesters will have to stick to its famous pecans in Fort Payne, Alabama. Priesters Pecans, an Alabama staple, is one of more than half a dozen sites across the state slated to receive millions of dollars in federal funding to expand access to chargers for electric vehicles. But maybe not for long.

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