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Three Ways To Help Support Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been ten days since Hurricane Maria has devastated the Island of Puerto Rico. I usually take a three-prong strategy for disaster relief. As we watch reports of a disaster, we can give directly to people on the ground. Here’s my giving strategy for Puerto Rico. Where should be donate?

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

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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Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon company

The Verge

Loon has also provided internet services to areas affected by natural disasters, deploying balloons to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017 and to Peru following an earthquake in 2019. Teller says that Loon is working to place employees in other roles at X, Google, and Alphabet.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

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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Alphabet’s Loon balloons provide their first commercial internet service in Kenya

The Verge

The company’s balloons have already provided internet connectivity in the wake of disasters, like in Puerto Rico in 2017 after Hurricane Maria or in Peru after an earthquake in 2019 , but never as part of a large-scale commercial deployment. Download speeds of 18.9Mbps have been recorded.

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Visionlink’s Volunteer Registry Deployed for Hurricanes Harvey & Irma

VisionLink

Volunteers can identify the disaster event they would want to volunteer for. If you would like to volunteer the system is currently accessible from the following sites: For Texas: [link] For Puerto Rico: [link] For U.S. Due to the ongoing uncertainty of Hurricane Irma, other states will be added as necessary.

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Dash Systems raises $8M for precision-airdrops-as-a-service at distant or disaster-stricken destinations

TechCrunch

Commercial contracts are all well and good, but the idea actually got its start in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, where in Puerto Rico, Ifill said, people had gone nearly two weeks without any deliveries because the communications infrastructure was so devastated.

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