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As a Disaster Unfolds, Fundraisers Can Do More Than Raise Money

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But if youre a fundraiser for a nonprofit organization or school in the midst of an unfolding disaster, you can do more than raise money. Maintain Open Lines of Communication As the touchpoint between donors and your cause, you are uniquely positioned in a disaster to provide regular updates to supporters and friends of your mission.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

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Using the expertise of its Chef Network, WCK works to empower people to be a part of the solution with a focus on health, education, jobs, and disaster relief. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. We stepped back in to the disaster relief space with the launch of our #ChefsforPuertoRico campaign.

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

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Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Mission: To provide sustainable transformation in the lives of poor children and provide emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.

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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

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Refugees International ’s website, there are currently over 65 million people across the world who are displaced by war, conflict and persecution, and tens of millions more who have been displaced by climate events and natural disasters. Refugees International was founded in 1979 as a citizens’ movement to protect Indochinese refugees.

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ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Success Factors: Tangible Impact: Donors directly contribute to a sustainable solution, creating a sense of empowerment and long-term impact. Success Factors: Social Media: Platforms like X/Twitter and Facebook are heavily used to broadcast real-time needs and impacts, using hashtags and live updates to maintain urgency and high visibility.

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

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Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment. and Google are planning to work together in the area of disaster preparedness. He also announced that Microsoft (and I think Yahoo!)

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