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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

“The American Red Cross has spent and distributed all funds designated for Haiti relief on shelter, emergency relief, health, cholera prevention, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness,” the statement continued. Ballantyne, who is listed as president on a press release on the organization’s website.

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Developing Apps with a Community-Centered Approach

Tech Soup

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Because many youth in the United States rely on free and reduced-cost meals during the school year, hunger is a real problem during the summer months when schools are closed.

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Let the Donor Decide: Don’t Assume Giving is Off the Table During a Crisis

Connection Cafe

“Humanitarian crises, natural disasters, disease outbreaks – the needs today as pressing as ever,” stated Martha C. White in a TIME Magazine article in 2018. At that time, COVID-19 was not on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Be prepared to be specific and tangible. Uncover what your donor cares about.

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Nonprofit Technology Assessment: Evaluate Your Tech

DNL OmniMedia

Before you begin working with a consultant, you should create a list of your team’s most pressing tech questions. Prepare questions for your consulting team. Are there pervasive roadblocks that you continue to run into, or innovative tech solutions that you’re interested in incorporating?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Find the European Court of Justice press release here. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. An App To End World Hunger?

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2021 Strategic Planning, COVID-style

Connection Cafe

We know from past disasters that the year after a crisis hits can be even harder for nonprofits. We reforecast our goals and budget and pressed “pause” on planned priorities to focus on the more urgent and important realities of a pandemic and the unjust murder of Black Americans.

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It’s time to hit the reset button on GMOs

Fast Company Tech

It also promises to help address the pressing but unanswered question of how to produce the 56% additional calories needed to feed the 10 billion people expected to populate the world in 2050, with little land left to expand cultivation and a changing climate making agriculture more challenging. Optimism: To usher in a new era of GMO 2.0

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