sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2021

When disaster strikes, timing is everything, and the best kind of relief is the kind that comes fast. Disaster relief organizations understand that needs begin before the storm arrives, through evacuation orders, and last until homes are rebuilt or are safe to inhabit. They can appoint an in-house team to lead the effort.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 21, 2011

is to be like a stream: flow within a structure. We resist limits and structure, and yet according to a study reported in The New York Times article, Route to Creativity: Following Bliss or Dots? , "the real source of productive creativity may lie in art's supposed bugaboos: rules, structure, even the occasional editor or two."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 3, 2011

A longtime venture capitalist with his DEFTA Partners firm , he wants to help solve social problems using hybrid capital structures that meld nonprofit and for-profit partners. It was a pleasure for me to make the connection with a cool technology play, and see that it was also a cool hybrid financial structure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

One talked about species extinction, and the other talked about the prevalence of natural disasters. The one talking about natural disasters was responsible for 80% of your donors, and 10% of those donors went on to become regular givers when you asked them 2 weeks later. You’d want to know that right? We’ll get to that next.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money – but we were the age of Aquarius! It’s been met with fear and excitement.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. If organizations are not shaping work around the needs, interests, aspirations, and motivations of the employee, at the least you’re seeing sub optimization, and at the worst, you may be seeing disaster.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Serguei Beloussov is the CEO of Acronis , a technology company focused on data backup software and disaster recovery solutions. Internal factors can include strategy, objective quality of products, the team’s makeup, processes and structures. The main external factors relate to the market conditions and the level of competition.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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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. Image Credits: Firemaps. While early, it’s already gotten traction.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Applying technology to disaster relief has evolved by leaps and bounds since I joined 2,000 people, most of whom I'd never met, to tackle the problem of creating a single searchable database of every person displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the days after the disaster. Technology Challenges in Katrina Disaster Relief.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Blog – Navigating Regulatory Requirements for Disaster and Hardship Relief Funds: A Guide for CSR Leaders. Also, working with HR is key as they often know who has been impacted by a disaster or personal hardship and can remind them to apply or even help them complete the application and get any required back-up documentation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Delivering what is believed to be the largest 3D-printed structure in North America — a barracks for Texas Military Department. Since then, the startup says it has delivered more than two dozen 3D-printed homes and structures across the U.S. and Mexico. larger and 2x faster than its previous Vulcan 3D printers.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

So we drilled down and developed policies and procedures addressing things like our disaster recovery plans, how we perform data classification and incident response, our software development lifecycle, access management across the organization, and so much more. Organizational structure including job descriptions and reporting structures.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. The leading issue category is health, followed by “public safety,” which includes funding focused on disasters. These grants represent about $2.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

She has also been training staff in the disaster response department who in turn used tools like Twitter on the ground from Haiti. It’s a mix of serious and fun content. When not in a disaster, you might see LOLcats doing CPR. A lot of practice on how to move quickly when a disaster strikes. They had social content.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rain-parched Southern California finally received some much-needed precipitation recently, offering some relief from the Los Angeles wildfires which displaced more than 150,000 people from their homesand either razed or damaged some 15,000 structures. But why does it seem to take epic disasters to bring people together in the first place?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Planet) or 3D structure from radar (e.g. “Our technology will be used to monitor the thermal footprint of buildings, to derive insights and efficiencies into economic activity, as well as looking at waste pollution of waterways and assisting in disaster relief,” Baker said in an email to TechCrunch. . So far the U.K.-based

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When looking for the right nonprofit organization to build a disaster relief strategy with, there are going to be a few questions you must ask yourself: › Is this for a disaster that has impacted my company directly? There are typically two kinds of nonprofit organizations that assist in local disaster relief and resiliency.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This wasn’t Tacker’s first go at responding to a disaster. Reaching people in the midst of a major disaster is challenging, said Tacker, and the Foundation depends heavily on its technology platform for outreach and processing. “In It has created more structure and consolidation across the organization and saves money too.

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DataRobot

MAY 25, 2022

Climate change and natural disasters are a concern for both the public sector and commercial organizations. The scale and costs of weather disasters in the U.S. experienced 50 independent weather and climate disasters that cost over $1 billion each. Other Disaster Applications for DataRobot. is substantial and growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Ushahidi ( [link] ) allows people to pool information into online crowdmaps with diverse uses—for example, allowing aid workers to see where resources are most needed after a natural disaster. Not only do they very carefully select who will be in the room, so as to maximize the chances of creative chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is one of the first reports using “Personal Health Data” in aggregate, using data points around sleep tracking to look at a natural disaster. As Jacob Harold mused on Twitter, “In such a moment of something so powerful and scary as an earthquake, technology can only observe.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

While it may be a singular number, 911 calls are directed to roughly 5,700 public safety answering points (PSAPs) across the country, all with independent operations, variegated equipment, disparate software, multifarious organizational structures, and vast inequalities of staffing and resources.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

Threats Endangering Coral Reefs As environmental disasters intensify in a warming climate, the destruction of coral reefs can be overlooked. million coral fragments and 87,000 “reef stars” (metal structures designed to support coral growth) have been installed, all using locally sourced materials. It says approximately 1.3

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Jacob Wood and William McNulty, Team Rubicon – Team Rubicon improves disaster response and helps veterans to reintegrate into civilian life. Embrace’s incubators combine the best of design, business savvy, and science and costs a tiny fraction of the cost for traditional incubators.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Your building’s foundation holds up the entire structure and bears the heavy load against storms, natural disasters, and aging. Here are four reasons why choosing a vendor that offers a robust partner ecosystem can help meet your ever-changing needs as a nonprofit, foundation, or school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell argues that real social change occurs when strong, rather than weak-tie networks, organize hierarchically, rather than in a de-centralized network structure. Current structures of suburbia, distant homes, moving for jobs, smaller families, etc. Gladwell Got It Wrong About Strong and Weak Ties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Organize that neglected online/offline space Every organization has that room that has become a disaster. Have your intern review the existing structure and then create a good looking visual with a tool like Draw.io The right intern can bring an outsider’s eye to organizing and filing rooms like this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

We have to respect Mother Nature – and whether we live by the Ocean where Hurricanes can hit or along a fault line where earthquakes can shake down our homes. Do we take natural disaster seriously ? Are we prepared?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

underlying systems and structures that?generate A grant to a university, school, or hospital in a geographic area where people of color might happen to be among the beneficiaries would not be included in this data set. . generate and?reinforce reinforce racial inequality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But if such models, perhaps trained on hours of audio provided by actors , were to fall into malicious hands, these companies may find themselves at the center of a PR disaster and perhaps serious liability. But if you do it right, they’ll also be robust against removal since they are very close to an important part of the audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Then we opened up for discussion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

But it’s tough to compare the two directly because the pricing structures for Wasabi and Amazon S3 differ. ” On the customer acquisition front, Wasabi now has clients across more than 100 countries, according to Friend, including from higher education, media and entertainment, data protection and disaster recovery and the public sector.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

And if brand messaging comes across as unauthentic, it could spell disaster. One recurring observation is that brand teams and product teams often sit in different parts of a company’s org structure. While there are reasons for this, it’s important to remember that users don’t care about your org structure.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

We expect the federal, state, and local governments to play a role in educating our children, helping communities rebuild after natural disasters, and improving our collective quality of life. consistent, structural challenges. In the United States, we rely on government to provide key economic supports.

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