M+R

JUNE 15, 2021

When a hurricane makes landfall, it doesn’t take much work to create a sense of urgency. Source: National Geographic. Gwen is the Creative Director here at M+R. Will is the Senior Creative Director and sole member of M+R’s remote Rhode Island outpost. Sometimes, urgency is baked right into the moment. but it’s effective.

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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. She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

The prize is the only program in the country focused on promoting and encouraging the work of social innovators over 60, like: Wilma Melville , a 74-year-old, retired physical education teacher, who won $100,000 for creating The National Disaster Search Foundation. Her idea is now a reality. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. You may want to become a monthly donor to a couple of other programs as well of organizations that are similar to yours, maybe some big national organization that you can just say, “Hey, let me see what they’re doing.” Erica: Thanks.

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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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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. This data comes from analysts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , known as NOAA, and its National Weather Service. weather forecasts. President Ulysses S.

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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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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. Today is National Endangered Species Day. Here in the Everglades, the signs of climate change are unmistakable — and tragic. TIME IS ALMOST UP!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. Matt Quinn is IT Manager for Harvesters food bank in Kansas City , Missouri and serves on the Board of Directors for KKFI 90.1

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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

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. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So they got the whole nation covered, which is also cool. 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. Combined decades of experience. It was huge.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

As far as ‘buzz director’ goes… I do need to unpick what I mean a little more (a *lot* more). a day is also still poverty even in the poorest nations. When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. So that's when I started working here more formally, and then this last fall I ended up coming to Ella Baker Center full time as the Art and Media Director of Reclaim the Future.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Malynndra Tome was helping to map livestock ponds in the Navajo Nation when she saw something that inspired her to act. asked Tome, a citizen who grew up in the community of Ganado, Arizona, in the nation’s largest Native American reservation at 27,000 square miles (69,930 square kilometers) in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 9, 2025

Layoffs last week at NOAAs Office of Aircraft Operations, home of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, threaten to reduce the quality of data critical for hurricane monitoring, prediction, and warning. On February 28, NOAA terminated two flight directors and one electronic engineer.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

We save lives and there are people alive today because of the work we do,” said Doug Chabot, who directed the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center in Montana for almost 24 years. “To take funding and to just randomly cut programs, it will affect our ability to save lives. NOAA has about 13,000 employees.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

We havent had a strong immunization program that can really do a lot of boots-on-the-ground work for years, said Katherine Wells, the health director in Lubbock, a 90-minute drive from the outbreak’s epicenter. As long as theres warm water, the hurricane will continue to accelerate. That shifts the burden to county governments.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Not knowing for me means we assume that the money is not coming, and that means that I have to pivot,” said Jonathan Green, executive director of a nonprofit in Mississippi that’s building a 36-unit affordable housing development in Biloxi.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Its especially critical that infrastructure can handle more extreme weather due to climate change, said Olson, noting hurricanes that devastated the East Coast and parts of Appalachia last year. Recently, however, the Trump administration moved to slash National Park Service staffing. In 2021, the U.S. earned a C-minus overall.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

Disney’s board of directors had passed Mayer over for the CEO job anyway, though, and so he had reason to leave. The phenomenon was on full display at this week’s Republican National Convention. Microsoft Flight Simulator players are hunting down Hurricane Laura as it approaches the US Gulf Coast. Tom Warren / The Verge ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

While the rest of the nation watched in horror, bad weather turned deadly and quickly wreaked havoc. It was also western North Carolina in late September after Hurricane Helene created raging rivers that flooded some houses and swept others away. Houses were ravaged, and tens of thousands of residents were displaced.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

The National Weather Service in Birmingham has confirmed at least nine tornadoes touched down in central Alabama, with damage surveys still underway. The death toll for the tornadoes this week and in 2011 likely would have been higher if not for warnings provided by the National Weather Service and broadcast by Spann and others.

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