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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VisionLink

MARCH 23, 2020

In their words: The COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant disruptions to cities and local communities in the US and around the world. Successful suppression of COVID-19 in the United States will require urgent and decisive action by state, local and community leaders across the country. You can access the guide here.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I surpassed my giving budget for disaster relief giving. The Surprising Truth About Disaster Donor Fatigue – guest post by Alson Carlman, Global Giving. Disaster relief organizations have been working around the clock to respond to seven catastrophic disasters in the past two months. It will surprise you.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 8, 2025

Project Icarus Like a lot of cool things, the field of asteroid defense began with a bunch of kids at MIT with brainpower to spare. So was born Project Icarus. For all its careful engineering, Project Icarus was largely science fiction; among other inconveniences, the largest nuclear bomb ever made only had a force of 50 megatons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The money funded the development of 22 new drugs and over 100 research projects worldwide. The Trevor Project heavily promoted the push during Pride Month. Collaborate with Partners Form Partnerships – Collaborate with local businesses, other nonprofits, local influencers/personalities, or community organizations.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This edition of the App It Up project "Cool App Roundup" highlights different ways apps can be used in disaster, crisis, and emergency situations. Preparing for Disaster. The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Coast Guard, provides disaster assistance and emergency financial support for Coast Guard members. As they have in countless disasters before, the U.S. This fund provides prompt and effective grants to empower local nonprofits and agencies to rescue and recover their own communities amid devastating impacts from Hurricane Helene.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Captain took that process, digitized it and embedded it into an application combined with legal due diligence for state and local requirements. Up next, Gray sees Captain looking at other offerings, for example, to finance projects for homeowners in places where there is no requirement for insurance once you own your home.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It allows the information to be stored, and easily accessed from anywhere, instead of being local on only one machine. How can a cloud help project management? Cloud computing can aid in project management by providing a dedicated space for online collaboration. What are the different types of Cloud Computing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with geography that makes it vulnerable to typhoons, floods, volcanos, earthquakes and droughts. The reports were meant to help businesses respond more quickly to natural disasters. It’s also been used by local governments to decide school cancellations.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It helps everyone in the agency feel connected to all of the clients and ongoing projects, even if they were not directly involved. Give back to your community (think local first). As they begin to experience the company or brand, the work that they do for that client is bound to improve.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Things from project specs, money, to legal jurisdiction are all the things I will discuss below. Project details. This is so very true when it comes to outlining the project specifics. If you are charging per project, do you have a “cap hours” spent on the project? How many changes can they request?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact. I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from Kedar.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber is selling its autonomous vehicle business to Aurora Innovations, a San Francisco-based startup founded by the former head engineer of Google’s self-driving car project, the two companies announced Monday. Instead, Uber faced one disaster of its own making after another. Aurora is an interesting choice for a buyer.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2022

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) head Filippo Grandi described this humanitarian disaster as “the fastest-moving refugee crisis we have seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War”. Candid collects data from publicly available sources, including press releases, websites, membership reports and surveys, and local reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects. I foresee that 2013 will be the year that this strategy really takes off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Insurance companies and governments are putting acute pressure on homeowners to invest more in defending their homes in what is typically dubbed “hardening,” or ensuring that if fires do arrive, a home has the best chance to survive and not spread the disaster further.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. " The Movesmart.org project is an online tool for housing seekers in Chicago (and soon other cities across the United States).

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Their donors, staff, and board members have extensive knowledge of local needs and organizations, and they also have relationships with local leaders in business, government, and education.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the past five years, the Davos Codes program has seen students involved in a variety of projects, including learning to code, using VR technology to design spaces to provide shelter and education for young displaced people, air quality monitoring, and learning about the global impact of plastics. STEM Classes Leading to Tangible Action.

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. On the donor side, it is dominated by corporate investors who largely execute their own projects rather than administer grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Pioneers in Justice” operates as a forum to explore social media tools that may power their local advocacy work and explore “networked” ways of collaboration within the social justice sector – and equally important, a space to address any concerns that may surface along the way. MiACLU is a one-of-a-kind project born from this framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But over time, the company realized that its digital general contracting and “personalized” homebuilding services could be applied to non-disaster use cases as well — especially in regions where there is a major shortage of inventory.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

If you work for the Red Cross, as an example, you can search in Causes for “red cross&# and find groups that are focused on the Red Cross but also those focused on specific disaster relief efforts and international projects. the names of your organization and programs/projects. Google Alerts. Delicious / Bookmarks.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Combining maps with data can take you even further: Humaninet uses GIS to help disaster response teams; Movesmart.org helps people find apartments in Chicago; Map Kibera is adding a level of detail to one of Africa's largest slums even Google Maps can't offer. Maps present a different way for your organization to tell its stories.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

According to a 2021 survey (albeit from an edge computing services vendor), 77% of companies said that they expect to see more spending for edge projects in 2022. Edge computing is seeing an explosion of interest as enterprises process more data at the edge of their networks. ” Those are lofty promises. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

“In 2011, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville (VA) will start building its precedent setting project, Sunrise Park. The project will create a model for compassionate redevelopment that can be replicated in hundreds if not thousands of communities. Project Animal Worldwide , Ellen La Torre.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Epidemiologists watch for blips in Google queries to localize flu outbreaks; economists use them to spot shifts in consumer confidence. Keisha also recommends having a look at the work of DataKind , especially their online project gallery. Big Data in Disaster Relief. The UN Global Pulse initiative.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. " The Movesmart.org project is an online tool for housing seekers in Chicago (and soon other cities across the United States).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Specifically, HYCU sells products — most of them self-serve — for cloud migration, security credential management, disaster recovery, and backup and recovery. At the same time, the analytics firm projected , spending on public cloud services would climb to $304.9 state and local government agencies, the U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. BackUpMyTweets.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

Yu explained that means making customers aware through their local Specialized retailer or via diagnostic notifications through the company’s smartphone app about the expected end-of-life date of their e-bike’s battery and what recycling opportunities are available to them. This has caused a growing ecological disaster.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Impact creators are often people with 10,000 followers or less, so their influence is localized and viewed as authentic and trustworthy. A student passionate about animal rights might start a fundraiser for a local shelter, posting regular updates and stories about the animals in their care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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