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If Trump guts NOAA, your home insurance premiums could spike

Fast Company Tech

experienced 27 individual weather and climate disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages each. In total, 2024 saw more than $192 billion in disaster costs, and more than 560 direct or indirect fatalities. Project 2025, the conservative playbook that the Trump administration is following, advocates privatizing this service.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits that work in international development, disaster relief, or wildlife conservation often do this sort of storytelling in print materials and website articles, but it also works extremely well as blog content. A first-person voice is best.

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How AI Can Help with International Development

Forum One

It can also help companies and families with energy conservation by recommending, or scheduling optimal times for high-energy activities. Disaster Response – Using satellite and weather data, countries will be able to better predict disasters. Any other areas?

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Nonprofit Mission Statements vs. Vision Statements

Whole Whale

David And Lucile Packard Foundation : Improving the lives of children, enabling the creative pursuit of science, advancing reproductive health, conserving and restoring the earth’s natural systems. The Nature Conservancy : To conserve the land and waters on which all life depends. Now go write those statements!

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Google launches new tool to help cities stay cool

The Verge

Extreme heat is one of the most well-documented effects of climate change; it kills more people in the US each year than any other weather-related disaster. That tool, created by conservation organization American Forests with support from Microsoft, was piloted in Rhode Island, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Maricopa County, Arizona.

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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. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Her focus area over the last 15 years has been community engagement to tackle social and disaster related challenges. “I

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Payment Processing for Nonprofits: Streamline Donations and Boost Revenue?

sgEngage

Processing Payments in a Time of Crisis In 2023, wildfires created the deadliest natural disaster in Hawaii’s history. They securely processed nearly $175 million in donations in the first five months after the disaster. “A Your payment processing platform needs to be reliable, secure, efficient, and economical year-round.

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