Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

By late March, Honolulu Civil Beat ’s Maui Fires Money Tracker had tallied more than $450 million in private donations and nearly $2 billion when including government assistance. That distinction previously belonged to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, after Hurricane Harvey.) And that’s only for one disaster last year.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Insurers use this data to develop their catastrophe models, which estimate the economic losses from extreme weather events like hurricanes and floods; that then underpins premiums, underwriting, claims, and more. Because NOAA is a government service funded by taxpayers, its data is free.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Electric Slide While Tesla billionaire Elon Musk and his gaggle of tech lackeys gnaw at the wires of the US federal government, his bread and butter venture isslumping hard. As Musk has become even more inescapably political, Tesla's sales have dropped sharply across the European Union and the UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The Federal Hurricane Response widget is a web tool designed to help share information during a major emergency with links to authoritative federal government sites on how to get help; finding friends and family; health and safety information; how to donate and volunteer; and a summary of what the government is doing.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If youre feeling a little apprehensive about your next flight because of Trump administration policies, thats not unreasonableand not just because Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency fired hundreds of workers at the FAA , including some whose roles supported air safety , according to a union representing workers.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As a former member of the New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NJ VOAD), Aaron coordinated Hurricane Sandy and Irene response efforts for Mormon Helping Hands. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. Aaron Titus received his J.D.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Just FYI, when a hurricane blew Homestead, Florida, pretty much the only thing left standing was the homes built by Habitat for Humanity. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Several of the NNTSP partners are combining efforts for a response to Hurricane Sandy. Aidmatrix is taking needs from NNTSP members and publishing them, as well as partner NNTSP video blogs and other accounts, on government and industry portals that use Aidmatrix’s technology to publish real-time relief data.

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The Verge

APRIL 1, 2022

The legislators also bring up concerns that have arisen at other Amazon warehouses — some of the information requests pertain to Amazon staff being told to keep working during wildfires in California, extreme heatwaves in Washington and Oregon, and hurricanes in 2017 and 2018.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Many do not have specialized skills but do have a passion to help those left hungry or stranded by a flood, hurricane, or fire. Volunteer hours in a natural disaster may also be eligible for reimbursement from the government. Spontaneous volunteers—selfless individuals who step up in a crisis—also converge on disaster sites.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). The population at large would probably not trust the federal government to run a national level information network for reuniting families and notifications for finding people. Information management on a large scale.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Relief organizations and first-responders are working tirelessly to provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. The staff at TechSoup Global is keeping all those affected by the devastating hurricane in our thoughts as we work to support recovery efforts. Google's Hurricane Sandy map currently shows areas with power outages.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 8, 2015

VisionLink manages millions of client records for our customers, who in turn manage information about human service providers, government agencies, volunteers and donors, and schools and employers in 8,000 communities across the United States and in more than 100 countries around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. with government agencies, emergency management professionals, disaster response organizations, tech companies and concerned citizens. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

But past the fact that it’s a world where sales cycles can last as long as House Congressional tenures , there was quite a lot to get into: Consumer: Dorothy wants to to provide bridge loans to folks who get rekt by a hurricane. As government, and insurance money can take ages to arrive, the startup could be onto something.

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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. On the right, Gator Halpern (center) talks with others before the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

It’s not uncommon for federal aid to take months or even years to arrive, and insurance companies can often take months as well to process claims, particularly after large disasters like hurricanes where thousands of claims arrive simultaneously. She was an architect, and her office in Manhattan had to be evacuated.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Restaurants affected by Hurricane Ida in August and the ongoing California wildfires are eligible to apply, the company said. In a complaint filed in US District Court on September 9th, the companies argue that the fee caps are government overreach.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more. Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane. Government Agency Apps.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

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 (..)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

government estimates that floods in recent decades (exclusive of hurricanes and tropical storms) have caused an estimated $160 billion in damage and killed hundreds of people.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2021

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.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

" Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, social media has exploded, and its potential for use in crises was clear after the Haiti earthquake. One person can post a message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. Cool Factor : Government Goes Mobile. Due to the increasing amount of dangerous hurricane like Katrina, Gustav and Ike, the CDC recently created a mobile Web site to further assist during times of emergency.

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DataRobot

MAY 25, 2022

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck the U.S. DataRobot combines these datasets and data types into one training dataset used to build models for predicting whether a building will be damaged in the hurricane. See How DataRobot Delivers on the Promise of AI in Government. Gulf Coast and caused approximately $125 billion in damage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“What we’re seeing now, especially in light of COP26, is that climate change discussions are finally taking center stage as governments across the globe adjust and plan ahead for more intense hurricanes and storms, rising sea levels and threatened ecosystems like coral reefs,” Janssen explained.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. She is a poet, an environmental activist, and a nonprofit management expert with a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. To be sure, Nancy Jo Craig is an accomplished woman.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This is a problem for all industries, but especially for the nonprofit sector, because the private sector and government will typically pay more for the talent. How many stories have we read about banks, retailers, and our government being hacked and sensitive data being stolen? 4 – Security. This is a biggie. The Internet?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . Putting this best practice into action, in 2019—two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico—the Amgen Foundation awarded $257,500 to the University of Puerto Rico for rebuilding efforts. . In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where its headed. The government agency can be held accountable in a way private businesses are not because it answers to Congress. But have you ever wondered where they get all that information?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Hurricane Katrina was such an event for VisionLink, as was the more recent tornado through Joplin Missouri, which caused a 400% increase in system demand. Second, can the firm demonstrate that they can meet unexpected levels of peak demand?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Hurricane Florence finally made landfall over the weekend, ravaging the Atlantic coast with devastating winds and torrential rain. The federal government sets aside money in case disaster strikes, but their funding decisions are made with the assumption that civilians will help provide financial aid. Raise money.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. If you rely solely on a government grant, what happens when the agency changes its eligibility criteria and you no longer qualify?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

They're also currently involved in a very recent disaster relief effort from Hurricane Isaac. It's amazing just how ubiquitous Esri's technology is - powering government, academia, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofits. Find out how your organization can take advantage of donated Esri products through TechSoup too!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. Roughly speaking, the vast majority of global coastlines are going to experience a present-day 100-year event every year , Jackson says.

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BoardAssist

JULY 8, 2014

Environmental factors affect program delivery – Many nonprofits in the New York area experienced actual expenses less than budget in 2012 because programs were cancelled by Hurricane Sandy. Paul Konigstein is a Senior Consultant at Accounting Management Solutions , helping nonprofits improve their finance, accounting, and governance.

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