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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

NTEN

We know our friends over at the Red Cross have been expertly using social media for disaster response for years now, but this weekend, with Hurricane Irene set to touch down all along the east coast, we saw many other organizations and government entities reaching out via social media, as well.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. He is an effective leader who understands the needs of veterans and has experience delivering.

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NNTSP Applies Relief Work for Hurricane Sandy

Tech Soup

Earlier this year, the Network for Nonprofit Technology Solution Providers (NNTSP) organized as part of TechSoup Global, combining their resources to create a national network of local technology capacity-builders serving the nonprofit sector. Several of the NNTSP partners are combining efforts for a response to Hurricane Sandy.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . This included a 73-month, $850,000 grant to CARE, a global relief organization, to provide “assistance and robust response readiness” for low-attention natural disasters.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 billion. . billion for U.S.

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Why Hospitals Should Invest in Climate Actions as a Community Benefit Strategy

sgEngage

Eight years ago, 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement , a major step in global cooperation to fight climate change by reducing emissions and pollution. of global net emissions are from the healthcare sector. Since then, the U.S. So how can hospitals get involved and why should they? It is estimated that 4.6%

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Rapid Employee Relief in Disasters: How companies can provide timely and compassionate support to employees in their time of need

sgEngage

Whether it’s a hurricane, a tornado, a typhoon or a flood, these organizations mobilize and are ready to fill whatever needs they can. As we head into 2021 Atlantic hurricane and wildfire season in the northern hemisphere, the need for safeguarding vulnerable employees becomes more pressing each day.