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Donation Drives: Catalyzing Change Through Collective Giving

Greater Giving

A donation drive is a purposeful and organized effort to mobilize individuals, communities, or businesses to contribute resources, typically in the form of monetary funds, goods, or services, towards a specific cause or charitable organization. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in Brazil 

Candid

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Innovative technologies helped mobilize fundraising campaigns and increase donations to support these efforts.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa. CTO, Greenpeace International.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is.

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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

NTEN

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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The NPTech Response to Japan

NTEN

Just a few short years ago, technology in disaster response was a different animal all together. In 2005, that changed: when Hurricane Katrina hit, technology for disaster response made the leap from field workers to those affected. Data emerged as the most important asset to any disaster response.

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Purpose at PIMCO | The Power of Partnerships & Knowing Your Why

Connection Cafe

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. Furthermore, in 2019 we helped launch a mobile food pantry that will seek to support hard-to-reach communities.

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