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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind

Fast Company Tech

Climate-related disasters like this often have deep roots in policies and practices that overlook growing risks. As the region starts to recover, communities have an opportunity to rebuild in better ways that can protect neighborhoods against a riskier future, but at the same time dont price out low-income residents.

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New Customer 211 San Diego Presents at AIRS

VisionLink

We are pleased to welcome 211 San Diego to our VisionLink network. If you are planning on attending this year''s AIRS conference you will be able to enjoy a number of worthwhile workshops from these good folks at 211 San Diego. It will be an honor to support their work! Tuesday, May 25, 2:15pm – 3:45pm) IS-700.a

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Resources & Support for Japan Earthquake

VisionLink

For general information on recent disasters, go to the RedCross Newsroom or to main FEMA site. Along the western coast of the USA, 2-1-1 call centers were engaged providing information to the public; we are proud to support this work directly in San Diego , and the Bay Area with CommunityOS software.

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Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts

Tech Soup

Even if you pay only glancing attention to news about technology and social media, you've probably heard something about their uses during disaster response and relief efforts.

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Pangea Foundation Spotlight: Disaster Relief Communications Hub

Tech Soup

As you may have noticed, we've been writing tooklits and guides , conducting webinars , and blogging about different ways to plan and prepare for disasters and emergencies over the past couple of weeks. They initially created it in response to the October 2007 wildfires that destroyed land and homes in and around San Diego.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Tagging communities or unbounded networks that might come to life around a tag are not new.

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What Nonprofits Can Learn from New Orleans

ASU Lodestar Center

of San Diego's Master's of. They’ve seen poverty and tragedy in their city, experienced natural disasters and man-made neglect. The best way to engage with every single stakeholder.from donors to board members to community partners.is Deirdre Maloney, President of Momentum LLC. and Professor for the University.