Fast Company Tech

APRIL 23, 2025

We were told sometimes in some hurricanes in America that some schools, we couldn’t use the kitchens, and the school kitchen was the best kitchen in many kilometers around and was complicated to navigate through roads and destruction, and even we were told we couldn’t use that kitchen. I’m on their board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The Mobile Active post provides some additional context about how the campaign was funded and mentions other Text-to-Give campaigns in America. Previous mobile fundraising campaigns have included Text-to-Give campaigns to raise money during Hurricane Katrina and the Southern California fires this past October.

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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. . We understand the instinct to donate in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, and it’s essential to address urgent needs. and internationally.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Will Ross and William Steenbergen were AI researchers at Stanford working on climate and atmospheric modeling and reinforcement learning, respectively, when they began to collaborate on wildfire modeling and hurricane modeling initiatives for the insurance industry.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

As noted in an USA Today article , online "donations for the first five days after the January 12 disaster totaled 19% more than during the same time frame after the 2004 Asian tsunami and 109% higher than the equivalent following Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. Our broader goal is to invigorate Jewish life in America with the values of service and we hope that this effort can help energize a new generation of Jewish leaders to step up and act. But here we are, two years later.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 18, 2021

In short, we were caught in a hurricane of uncertainty. In the past 18 months, it’s been reported that wills are being filled out in record number and mortality rates haven’t been this low in North America since the Second World War. Initiatives were drastically altered or put on hold. But even storms can bring prosperity.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. I’d like to see this opened for all nonprofits to add themselves as beneficiaries.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

And numerous YMCAs all over the country have announced that all of their facilities are free to people displaced by the hurricane. YMCAs seem to have several built-in ways to help out. But what can other organizations do? Look within your domain of your organization's special expertise and you may find a very organic role.

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

Learn more about the evolving situation from a recent Good Morning America ABC News segment below, as well as how you can help Haiti earthquake victims below. With six earthquakes, 132 floods, 56 hurricanes, and 96 tornadoes under their belt, the organization is actively planning their relief efforts in Haiti.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

As noted in an USA Today article , online "donations for the first five days after the January 12 disaster totaled 19% more than during the same time frame after the 2004 Asian tsunami and 109% higher than the equivalent following Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

This is a natural fit for the organization and they have plans for future apps focused on earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and flood preparedness. Charities like Habitat for Humanity, Feeding America, and the Nature Conservancy are already on board. I’d like to see this opened for all nonprofits to add themselves as beneficiaries.

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M+R

JUNE 15, 2021

We began to unpack the challenges and obligations of developing ethical creative in a roundtable discussion with our friends Amirio Freeman of Feeding America and Rosa Del Angel of Oxfam America. When a hurricane makes landfall, it doesn’t take much work to create a sense of urgency. We just need to tap into that emotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

The US projects are an interesting mix - several in the gulf coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Global Giving recently partnered with the Case Foundation for the America's Giving Challenge and you've done other competitions before -- any lessons learned you want to share with people who might want to champion a cause in future contests?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Since last Christmas, our planet has suffered through the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, this week's devastating earthquake in Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the recent horrific mudslides in Central America. What a year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 2, 2006

I don't know if it is that we're halfway through the 00's , or that it is over 4 years since 9/11, or that Hurricane Katrina put extreme poverty on the evening news, but it feels like America is waking up from a long sleep and somehow becoming more conscious of the country that it needs to become.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Oxfam America. Feeding America. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Teach For America. First woman selected to be President & CEO of Veterans Village of San Diego, and is a 2019 George W. Nonprofit Leaders. Abby Maxman. President and CEO.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Among the highs I count, helping the American Red Cross raise funds for Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami; supporting the Howard Dean campaign on the first large scale Internet political campaign; working with the ASPCA to conclude that tailoring messages/images to dog versus cat people drove demonstrably different results; our first viral email (..)

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 1, 2024

” America’s Charities’ workplace giving statistics estimate that $5 billion is donated through workplace giving every year. Hurricane Ian: In response to Hurricane Ian, Target partnered with the American Red Cross, Team Rubicon, and local nonprofits to provide $5 million in disaster response efforts.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

” America’s Charities’ workplace giving statistics estimate that $5 billion is donated through workplace giving every year. Hurricane Ian: In response to Hurricane Ian, Target partnered with the American Red Cross, Team Rubicon, and local nonprofits to provide $5 million in disaster response efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2018

One option is to direct all funding to a large nonprofit organization like the American Red Cross, Feeding America, Salvation Army, or others that have a broad reach.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. And the reason why it’s so important is you can plan on the money being there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

JVH: So Freedom from Oil is a campaign that looks at the behaviors of automakers and tries to pressure them and negotiate with them in order to have them change their behavior and really be the leaders in weaning America off of oil.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2012

Yes, they chose to stay in their incredibly vulnerable housing during a hurricane (theoretically Katrina, or something a lot like it,) and they choose to leave the evacuation center to go back home. Blog Category: America Tweet' Count me imaginatively stunted.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Across much of the Global South, temperatures will become too hot for malaria to spread, but conditions for this disease would become more favorable in other parts of the world , including Europe, North America, and Central Asia. East Coast, Japan, and the west coast of South America. Attempts to enter the U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2012

Yes, they chose to stay in their incredibly vulnerable housing during a hurricane (theoretically Katrina, or something a lot like it,) and they choose to leave the evacuation center to go back home. Blog Category: America. Count me imaginatively stunted.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r= Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies. It’s a project that startups like BlocPower are already deeply involved in supporting.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go. By losing key staff members like Reames, who had decades of experience working with NOAAs weather models, Americas weather predicting abilities will likely suffer. In Alaska, a member of the 24/7 National Tsunami Warning Center lost her job.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. posted by Jaime Ernesto Uzeta, CEO, Public Allies. First published on Ozy.com. Now should be no different.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

I post these kinds of things because it gives me hope that there are a few lone voices in powerful positions advocating for the future of all Americans, not just rich white ones, and for our environment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. This last fall we produce a CD called Eye of the Storm which has been an amazing project, just the creativity and the generosity of the artists who participated on this CD still blows my mind.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

The water crisis stems from a wide range of issues, ranging from extreme weather events like hurricanes and flooding to depleted aquifers and overuse of wells. Vast landsacross America remain undeveloped due to a lack of natural water resources, exacerbating the housing crisis. Water is an essential and increasingly limited resource.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

How can we be living in the United States of America one of the most powerful countries in the world, and people are living like this here? In September, more than 100,000 residents in western North Carolina were under boil-water notices for nearly two months after Hurricane Helene destroyed much of a local water system.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

The rampaging insect menaces Americas Arctic military outposts , part of a critical line of national defense , before heading south and meeting its end in New York City. The Armys chief ice scientist, Dr. Henri Bader, spoke on the Voice of America. military will have to stop it. By adapting to climate change, the U.S.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Research shows that 3.6 billion people already live in areas highly susceptible to climate change. Conversely, one-third of our food supply goes to waste and is a major waste stream component produced every day by patients, healthcare workers, and visitors.

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