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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Why Social Media?

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Fiscal Sponsorship for Nonprofits: An Alternative to 501c3 Status

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The traditional method for nonprofits to obtain tax-exempt status is by filing as a 501(c)(3). With fiscal sponsorship, individuals and organizations can bypass the complicated 501(c)(3) application process, saving time, money, and a lot of effort. Put simply, fiscal sponsorship is an alternative method to obtaining tax-exempt status.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

You may think your data isn't desirable, but if you hold fundraising events and have donor data in your files, provide direct services to your community and have client health records or domestic violence shelter rosters, and so on, then your data is desirable by someone. Why It Should Matter to Organizations. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

sgEngage

This wasn’t Tacker’s first go at responding to a disaster. Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. Right before the pandemic hit, we migrated everyone to the cloud, and put all our files on SharePoint.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

Working on a personal PC, what are the requirements in terms of applications and standardization? Will there be a strict policy on non-work-related applications and services? And you do not want, obviously, to be having your data and your applications being accessed on an open network that is open to anyone in the vicinity essentially.

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