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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. The losses from Helene went beyond infrastructure and financial losseslives, ecologically rich lands, and irreplaceable cultural sites.

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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. When we can look at numbers immediately after a disaster, it gives us a unique perspective.

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Why founders should never sacrifice company culture

The Next Web

I consider everyone who works at Squeaky to be important to our mission and have built our culture to reflect this. Culture is a dynamic that makes hard work enjoyable. Over the last few years of tough economic times, I couldn’t help but take a closer look at the price tag that comes with maintaining our culture.

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Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

.orgSource

A security incident is a disaster of the highest order. Put People First Your data governance policy will be a document that reflects your organization’s unique culture, teams, and members. Build a Data-Driven Culture Encourage data-informed decision-making at every level of the organization.

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Social Media Best Practices: 12 Tips for Making the Best of Any Social Site

NetWits

It requires that you learn the culture, people and way to interact on each specific site. Once you’ve begun to get acclimated with the culture and overall way to interact on each social site, start to look for those who are talking about or interested in things you find interesting. The social Web is no different. Locate your peeps.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Are The Pros And Cons Of Public Donor Listings?

Bloomerang

I’ve always been bothered by the fact we had defaulted to listing people (a recipe for disaster). A lot depends on your culture and who your donors are. It was something I always wanted to remedy/clean up, but just hadn’t gotten around to. And I have only gotten one complaint about it in two years. What should you do?

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When Culture Eats Your Foundation’s Social Media Strategy for Breakfast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My overall advice is embedded in another Drucker quote along the same lines reinforces the struggle, “Company cultures are like country cultures. Does it take a natural disaster to change a culture? How has your nonprofit or foundation avoiding having your organization’s culture eat your social media strategy?