The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Giving to disasters by the 1,000 largest funders was more than seven times greater during 2022 than 10 years early, hitting $860.2 New Data from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) while it is not record-level funding, it was the third highest amount since the nonprofit started reporting such data in 2014. of the $126.7

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A huge thank you to Audrey Kidwell, Grants Manager for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, for providing many of the resources and tips included in this article. Modern grantmakers must be prepared and ready to support their communities when—not if—a climate disaster hits. Take the Long View Disaster recovery is a long-term process.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Climate-related disasters like this often have deep roots in policies and practices that overlook growing risks. Research shows that low-income residents struggle the most during and after a disaster. Disaster assistance also tends to benefit the wealthy, who may have more time and resources to navigate the paperwork and process.

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Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. Our most recent report looked at 2022 disasters. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible. This doesnt come close to the billions of dollars of damage.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

Experts say disaster preparation and good planning can help protect lives and property. Once storms draw near, stay informed by signing up for real-time city, county and federal weather alerts, and listen to the news and whatever your local officials are saying. If there are local orders to evacuate, you need to heed them.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 7, 2021

Country superstar Alan Jackson wanted to raise money for tornado disaster relief that devastated his hometown, so he teamed up with two corporate sponsors for his first in-person concert in more than a year.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Visionlink announces new disaster relief and disaster operations modules, and now all listed on one page to share with your staff and stakeholders. We can refine every solution in hours — not weeks, to match state or local regulations, mandates, and business processes. No custom engineering. Or keep them on cost-saving standby.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

VisionLink has launched a Shelter View iPhone App now available in the Apple iTunes store, providing information about disaster shelters across the United States. The application provides links to donate, or to view up to date disaster information from the Red Cross Newsroom website. Download it now. Stay tuned!

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TechSpot

AUGUST 22, 2024

In a recent press release, the organization accused the government of forcing the "booming" technology industry to face a disaster after authorities implemented a. Read Entire Article

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The year 2020 was an astounding year for disaster philanthropy, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. i What did the remaining $223 million in disaster aid address? The numerous other disasters and humanitarian crises occurred or continued to occur that year—events that were overshadowed by the pandemic. . Syrian refugee crisis.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Call 1-800-451-1954 for free help from local relief agencies BOULDER, Colo. – 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

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For nonprofits focused on causes like disaster relief, embedding critical needs into early-stage conversations with corporate partners ensures that your organization can focus on response efforts. By proactively identifying hard costs, you can tailor in-kind requests to the specific strengths of the company.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2017

I watched the news reports from Texas and was horrified at the scale of this disaster. I grew up on the Jersey shore where I’ve been evacuated due to storms, but I have never seen this level of disaster. I also ask for recommendations for local charities from colleagues. So, I’m donating there as well.

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sgEngage

MAY 15, 2024

In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. Applied an equity lens: We aim to grant funds with an equity lens, focusing on the needs of historically or currently marginalized and at-risk populations along with more local, on-the-ground organizations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response. BUT, what if we did invite the public to provide situational awareness such as telling us about the elderly people on a hill?

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Charity Village

JANUARY 20, 2023

Infrastructure Canada is now accepting applications for new projects through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund (DMAF).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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VisionLink

MARCH 3, 2020

Community Infection & Quarantine Tracker Available Now Visionlink announces the COVID-19 Infection and Quarantine Tracker for 2-1-1s, I&R Centers, Aging Agencies, Crisis Lines and Disaster Agencies. Because the virus has so many undefined behaviors, daily status and symptom checks are critical for local and state response planning.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

project has a slew of resources for both responders and those affected by disasters. Tweak the Tweet is a layered map that shows the locations of disaster-related Twitter hashtags. You can also text SHELTER and your zip code to 43352 (4FEMA) to find a local shelter. The Google Crisis Response. More Resources.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here’s how you can help with disaster relief efforts today and every day. Another way to help disaster victims is to join the fundraising effort. The federal government sets aside money in case disaster strikes, but their funding decisions are made with the assumption that civilians will help provide financial aid. Raise money.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Prepare Your Organization for Any Disaster. Help prepare your organization for any type of disaster with our disaster planning and recovery guide. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief. Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Webinar Recap.

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VisionLink

APRIL 11, 2024

Is your organization prepared to respond and support during a community-wide disaster? Our Disaster Case Management Platform (DCMP) and related disaster management tools are proven solutions that can support your organization, your staff and volunteers, and the clients you serve. Want to learn more? Visionlink.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

These teams would often receive local intelligence, and then use online tools to get the additional information necessary to deploy their limited resources most effectively, effectively “crowdsourcing” some of the legwork in terms of finding where individuals were located.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called “ The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story. “ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 In Columbia, S.C.,

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Whether as a flash point response to a crisis, natural disaster, or an election, one-time, smaller donations are becoming commonplace. Prioritize returning supporters, larger gifts, and local donors for phone calls and handwritten notes. Reactive giving is on the rise. As you segment your donors, weave in individualized outreach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

When a major event happens, such as the pandemic, wars, or natural disasters, they make a decision for the donor that this is the wrong time to be asked for a gift. Prefer to donate to local charities or make a long-lasting impact through their investments. This person fears offending donors by asking at the “wrong” time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

Now let’s look at technology disaster preparedness. Preparing for Disaster. We don’t mean the power-surge-ate-my-blog-post kind of disaster, though. Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) outlining the off-site locations of backup servers, roles and responsibilities, emergency contacts, etc. With local, your.

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VisionLink

MAY 3, 2022

With last year's conference 100% virtual, this year will be extra-exciting for us as we connect with longtime friends and collaborate as an association of organizations that mitigate and alleviate the impact of disasters. We're excited to join with Good360 and local experts from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. See you in Maryland!

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VisionLink

DECEMBER 31, 2021

We are of course reaching out to local authorities to offer support. Today, as with the first day after any other disaster, people are in shock. Good people always step forward when disasters strike. Over the weeks and months ahead, the person-to-person connections will define the success of Boulder County's recovery.

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VisionLink

MAY 8, 2023

We look forward to another engaging conference with the National Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (NVOAD) , in St. Visionlink offers the only disaster solutions that are both pre-built and completely configurable--and designed for collaboration and data exchange from the ground up. Louis, Missouri , from May 8-11, 2023.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen an uptick in funding possibilities within your field. Successful implementation of these programs will require close coordination with state, tribal, and local leaders like yourself.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

The concept behind Open Connect has stayed pretty much the same ever since: Once a server gets installed in an internet providers local data center, it gets loaded up with copies of Netflixs movies and shows, which are then streamed to the providers customers whenever theyre ready to watch something. That will come in the coming years.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 18, 2023

Starting on page 6, with the fact that weather-related disasters are clearly on the rise, it is now increasingly important that our government agencies continue to help fund and guide mitigation and resilience-building efforts. You can find it here: National Preparedness Report December 2022 Here is our take.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

A great example of this type of time-sensitive fundraising comes in the aftermath of a natural disaster like a wildfire or hurricane. Local community members or charitable individuals will work together to raise funds for those affected. Many times these funds are raised by an individual, not a charitable organization.

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