Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Note from Beth: With the hurricanes, gun violence, and fires, I gave generously, including donations to Global Giving funds. Alison Carlman, Director of Impact and Communications at Global Giving, offers a deep dive into some Global Giving data to find the answer. Donors have given about equal amounts to Hurricane Harvey ($4.0M

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NTEN

JANUARY 2, 2013

Director of the Idea Lab. What about Hurricane Sandy? Steve MacLaughlin. There is a lot of speculation about what has been causing the challenges that fundraising is facing in the United States. There are opinions and then there is data. Is it the economy? Was it the election cycle? Are we approaching the fundraising cliff?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Lessons Learned About Resilient Networks from Super Storm Sandy by Pat Brandes, Executive Director, the Barr Foundation. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history. Pat Brandes is executive director at the Barr Foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2012

Yes, they chose to stay in their incredibly vulnerable housing during a hurricane (theoretically Katrina, or something a lot like it,) and they choose to leave the evacuation center to go back home. But were those really choices, or just being impoverished and in danger at home is better than being impoverished and in danger among strangers?

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This partnership helps connect survivors with local relief agencies in your area,” said Joe Hillis, operations Director with ITDRC who along with Humanity Road is providing volunteers to staff the hotlines. “We During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, VisionLink became the nation's system of record for millions of people and thousands of shelters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

I’ve been on sets with Oscar-winning actors and directors, and I’ve been on championship NBA teams. It was still reeling from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. “It But last week, it’s clear that his third act — that of a startup founder — is becoming one of those moments.

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Media Cause

APRIL 19, 2021

Although COVID halted travel and slowed down our manufacturing, climate change continued to fuel raging wildfires and an endless hurricane season. Yerina Mugica , Managing Director at NRDC, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program . According to NIFC , in just California alone, 52,113 wildfires burned 8,889,297 acres in 2020.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. " Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. Merni Fitzgerald, public affairs director for the Fairfax County, Va., social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Providing concise, informative and timely videos empower our supporters to help spread our mission of providing emergency shelter and drive donations on our behalf,” said Sarah Robinson, Director of Fundraising and Strategic Partnerships at ShelterBox USA. Rebecca Brooks is the Director, Communications at Animoto.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

Just because you, your executive director, or any “insider” feel a certain way about what’s most important about your mission, does not mean your constituents feel the same way. The executive director wants two department heads, each reporting to her; she won’t delegate responsibility. Your board members apparently don’t.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2009

What if it's not an actual disaster like a hurricane or flood, but a staff member simply loses or breaks a laptop carrying essential supporter data? We'll also be joined by Michelle Baldwin, Executive Director of Volunteers in Service to Others, which runs the Cooke County emergency food bank. read more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2012

Expert guests include: Jody Dilday ( @jdilday ), executive director of Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas ( @SPSFNWA ), has spent her career raising awareness and support for nonprofit organizations. Wednesday, March 21, 11 a.m. Pacific time. Hashtag: #NPLive. RSVP to join the live show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

Chuck Patch , Director of Systems at Historic New Orleans Collection, and has been the leader of the Museums Computer Network group. With the recent devastation from Hurricane Katrina, we send out our well wishes to all of the staff at the Collection to pray that they are okay and that New Orleans will return to normality soon.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where its headed. Christine Wiedinmyer is an associate director for science at CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder. But have you ever wondered where they get all that information?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2012, it is estimated that corporations gave $131 million to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and that individuals gave $236 million. Giving USA estimates $54 million in contributions to public-society benefit organizations and $223 million given to human services organizations to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in 2012.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

We had all these amazing volunteers and food trucks and chefs who had managed their own businesses but lost so much after the hurricane and decided that they wanted to offer their time and resources to WCK. We had over 20,000 volunteers in Puerto Rico alone, most of whom were Puerto Ricans who had been impacted by the hurricane themselves.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office. Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent.

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. I am on the national Board of Directors of AVODAH and yesterday, in an all-day meeting in New York, we decided to greenlight the expansion to New Orleans. But here we are, two years later. New Orleans is in trouble.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

And we are bracing for yet another intense, potentially deadly hurricane season. That’s the reality on the ground, as communities on the Gulf Coast try to recover from another hurricane. Will Valverde is a senior creative director at M+R and co-writer of The M+R Guide to Effective and Ethical Direct Response Creative.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

But it has also been driven by major events like 9/11 , the Asian Tsunami , and Hurricane Katrina. There might not be some for a while, but every career path is now on the transformation list. The rate of change in the nonprofit world has been steadily increasing over the past decade. And the 2008 U.S. This isn't the world of tomorrow.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2014

Hurricane season kicked off on June 1 and we’ve already got our first tropical depression in the Atlantic. A disaster can be as big as a hurricane or as small as a water main break that floods your office and surrounding neighborhood. It was the year four hurricanes hit the state, so I learned a lot very quickly.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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. Reaching people in the midst of a major disaster is challenging, said Tacker, and the Foundation depends heavily on its technology platform for outreach and processing.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Executive Director. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. National Community Relations and Development Director & National Spokesperson. Prior to his current role, he served as executive director and chief operating officer for The Salvation Army National Capital region in Washington, D.C. Anna Rathmann.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

"This is what a public library is all about," said Carol Cooler, the director of libraries and CEO at the Saskatoon Public Library in a press statement. A "disaster" doesn't necessarily have to mean a fire, earthquake, hurricane, or other natural occurrence. A Safe Space During Times of Social Unrest.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact. Patrick Callihan — Executive Director of Tech Impact. Image 1: NTEN.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. Birgit Cameron, the global director of Patagonia Provisions, is passionate about the integral role that nature — and specifically soil — will play in saving our planet.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

David is Senior Director at NetSuite.org , Netsuite’s corporate foundation. Early in his nonprofit career, David became the founding director of the Eastmont Computing Center in East Oakland (now called the David Glover Education and Technology Center ). David is now Senior Director at NetSuite.org.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. As Achieve’s Director of Research, Amy is responsible for identifying and devising appropriate methodologies and data-collection strategies for projects like the Millennial Impact Report and the Millennial Running Study. Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Billy was formerly director of partnerships at Meetup.com and had shown the power of it during the 2004 presidential campaign. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

At the same time, communities are facing acute climate issues in the here and now, such as losing their homes to a hurricane. Amit Patel, Managing Director, Nonprofit Group, Accenture. Outside of Salesforce.org, Cheryl serves on the Board of Directors for Community Action Marin. says Jones. Principle 3: Design for Reuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. The panel included Stefani Klaskow , Head of Industry/Healthcare at Google; Carrie Martin Munk , Chief Communications & Marketing Office, The ALS Association, and Jackie Fouse, Ph.d,

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As we delve into the CSR trends shaping the nonprofit sector, we’ll explore why these developments are relevant to nonprofits and corporate social responsibility (CSR) directors. What’s more, the company provided financial assistance by matching donations dollar-for-dollar up to $3 million in response to the hurricane.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Samantha Wright, Director of Development Operations and Analytics for the food bank, says that being located in a hurricane zone makes them “no strangers to disaster response.” Experience responding to natural disasters helped them form a crisis blueprint.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

It's pretty amazing what these folks have created, like Dan Newman, the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org , a non-partisan non-profit that illuminates the connection between money and politics (you can read my interview with him here ). I'm the Founder and Executive Director of the Freecycle Network.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Francis Johnson is Managing Director of Technology Services at Tech Impact, and he oversees all the technology infrastructure projects and support services that they do. And Karen’s role is Director of Education and Outreach at Tech Impact. And this is not just for executive directors or managers, but it’s also for board members.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

you know, when Puerto Rico had that hurricane, you know, that was huge here. A, we understand how horrible it is to go through a hurricane, and B, a lot of people who live in Florida have family members in Puerto Rico. Living in Florida, like I do, there is. It was huge. So they are responding slightly different. But keep asking.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. And the reason why it’s so important is you can plan on the money being there. Erica: Thanks. Steven: See you.

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