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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Further, most Kenyans do not use credit cards, instead the majority of the population use mobile payments and cash. Mobile payments are more accessible and convenient than card payments.

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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. Now with C40 Cities, she supports cities in the global network to develop and implement inclusive climate action plans, policies, and programs. Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

NTEN

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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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. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Purpose at PIMCO | The Power of Partnerships & Knowing Your Why

Connection Cafe

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. We partner with the Global Food Banking Network (GFN). We also work with local food banks across each of our global offices.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. mobile technologies, distribution of power and wealth, transparency in. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.” It kept me interested in the.