The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It isn’t very difficult to find easy, inexpensive ways for to give back to your city and your community — especially in the aftermath of natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. Giving your employees the opportunity to make a difference and will allow them to feel good about themselves in a non-work related context.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent,” according to the UN Environment Programme , exacerbated by climate change and land-use changes. CDP’s Cari Cullen describes a derecho as a “storm with hurricane-force winds in a place where the infrastructure isn’t built for hurricane-force winds.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2021

Salesforce nonprofit customers around the world are leveraging HandsOn Connect to manage over 42,000 volunteer shifts, both in person and virtual, impacting areas as varied as food insecurity, vaccine distribution, and the environment. . Nonprofits around the world are leveraging HandsOn Connect to manage over 42,000 volunteer shifts.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A disaster relief NGO may decide to map out hurricane paths, at-risk hospitals, and first-responder bases to deploy rescue teams to those in need. In the oil and gas industry, visualizing drilling rigs, block leases, and nautical boundaries could help devise exploration and investment strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For example, when Hurricane Harvey hit, ShelterBox USA was swift to put out a video letting their audience know that they had people on the ground assessing how they would be able to help. They put around $200 to advertise their video to maximize its reach, given Hurricane Harvey’s prevalence on social media.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

All the event organizers ask is that you find a venues the can accomodate the following: "People, hurricanes, New Orleans themed music (i.e. jazz, blues, zydeco) and a local green or environmental expert who can say a few things about the oil spill’s impact on the marine environment and the Gulf Coast economies associated with it."

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image Credits: Zeitview Since its founding, Zeitview claims it’s deployed drones to snap photos of wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, real estate complexes after a Texas hurricane and thermal data from “utility-scale” solar farms.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2013

Most sectors saw their share of total giving remain the same: Education, foundations, human services, health, public-society benefit, international, and environment. In 2012, it is estimated that corporations gave $131 million to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and that individuals gave $236 million. Sector Giving Trends.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Will Ross and William Steenbergen were AI researchers at Stanford working on climate and atmospheric modeling and reinforcement learning, respectively, when they began to collaborate on wildfire modeling and hurricane modeling initiatives for the insurance industry. He pointed to Russia sponsoring cyberattacks on U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

As a Floridian, I grew up assuming hurricanes would hit my house. Then, things can escalate, and people start to realize that what they’re actually experiencing is a hostile work environment. Here’s how we think about that growth. Plan for it.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Imagine a hurricane bearing down on an isolated village. The report also highlights the deep impact of technology in a wide range of other issue areas, from agriculture to education to the environment. Before the hurricane hit, residents could receive location-targeted SMS messages directing them to evacuate.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Our thoughts are with those impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Ensure that you have a safe environment before you begin the recovery process. If you’re positive the power is off and it is safe to move the equipment, it should be moved to a safe, dry environment with reliable electric power.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

While most of our jobs don''t involve leading a tour of Marines through an ambush, or rushing into a relief zone just decimated by a hurricane, in today''s fast-paced, hyper-competitive business environment, we are ALL on the front lines, says Wood.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. It’s no longer a question of whether the impacts on the environment of our collective human actions over decades will continue to result in more extreme weather, natural disasters, and economic instability. “We’ll

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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. Hurricane Katrina LA4 / News Muse / CC BY-NC-ND. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the past, the climate crisis was mainly the concern of environment and conservation organisations. Today, largely thanks to the work of Greenpeace , WWF , and others, it is recognised as the defining challenge of the century. We all have a responsibility to solve it, and civil society organisations play a critical role.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

Rather than having experts present on why energy efficiency would be good for the community and the environment, they held a series of open houses to allow neighbors to talk to each other. At the same time, communities are facing acute climate issues in the here and now, such as losing their homes to a hurricane. says Jones.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A disaster relief NGO may decide to map out hurricane paths, at-risk hospitals, and first-responder bases to deploy rescue teams to those in need. In the oil and gas industry, visualizing drilling rigs, block leases, and nautical boundaries could help devise exploration and investment strategies.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Just as importantly, we built an environment where people could take risks, change roles, and advance their careers. I travelled the country speaking at every nonprofit conference that would have me. Over the years we faced many highs and lows. For many, working at Convio has been the highlight of their career.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. All you need to do is promote your campaign effectively and watch the donations roll in! Emergency campaigns.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Providing accommodations for somebody with a disability to be able to work from home looks a little different from providing those accommodations in the office environment. So, what do you do in case things go wrong, whether it’s with a technology system, or there’s a hurricane that wipes out your office or whatever? Remote work.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

Dr. Ruesga began by acknowledging the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Part of the success story of the post-Katrina New Orleans is the burgeoning entrepreneurial environment that has resulted in creative problem-solving. Be a Learning Organization.”. To reinforce this notion, Dr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

Environment aside, from a consumers standpoint it makes a tremendous amount of sense. It's much cheaper for the consumer; it's under a dollar a gallon to fuel your vehicle with electricity as opposed to gasoline, so there's a real consumer incentive to support this technology. BB: What's preventing this from happening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history. It’s not a nightmare,” I said, “It’s for real.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. At this point, social media is changing and growing as much as our environment both physically and politically – the options are so numerous they can be a real cost.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Nebia stood out when it launched with pricey nozzles that blasted users with a fine, hurricanic mist, while conserving up to 70% of the water a typical shower head sprays out in the process, the startup claimed. “And that work is not done.” ” Winter said as much as our call wound down earlier this week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. Specifically, just deploying the existing technologies in the built environment/real estate will not be sufficient.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Hazel is a Weaver, capable of manipulating the invisible strands that hold reality together, and shes looking for her mother, Lacey, after a hurricane swept through their hometown of Prospero in the American Deep South.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

At the time, the operation was both smaller and under siege by Hurricane Dorian, which wiped out the team’s coral farm in the Bahamas — and then, of course, the pandemic arrived just in time to spoil the team’s 2020 plans along with everyone else’s. .

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

We’re located in the northeast, so we have blizzards, hurricanes…our office was actually taken out by a tornado at one point.” In conjunction with the organization’s political advocacy, Zero to Three transitioned their events to the virtual environment.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

you know, when Puerto Rico had that hurricane, you know, that was huge here. A, we understand how horrible it is to go through a hurricane, and B, a lot of people who live in Florida have family members in Puerto Rico. Living in Florida, like I do, there is. It was huge. So they are responding slightly different. But keep asking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

I post these kinds of things because it gives me hope that there are a few lone voices in powerful positions advocating for the future of all Americans, not just rich white ones, and for our environment.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The paper behind CorrDiff was featured today in Communications Earth and Environment , part of the Nature portfolio of scientific journals. weather data, with sample datasets of real-world natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, winter storms, tornados and cold waves. The optimized CorrDiff NIM microservice for U.S.

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