Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status | Beth’s Blog – "In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. I've heard attendance numbers of 400-500 tossed around, but it's difficult to count the total contributors to project management and coding.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

The international sector’s online fundraising dropped by 55 percent after the 2010 Haiti earthquake brought in “unprecedented online fundraising levels.”. If your organization is new to the scene, create a messaging campaign tailored to each prospective donor with a detailed description of your organization’s goals and projections.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

UNICEF Haiti365 – Be Their Voice – I'm really excited to see this new campaign from UNICEF – focused on the children in Haiti, and building on a multimedia effort to move people into engagement. "Haiti "Haiti 365 will continue to evolve as more people create videos and sign-up to show their support.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

In partnering with the White House, National Lab Day, and videogame makers Sony and EA, the Digital media and Learning Competitions has prizes up to $200,000 and is open to all kinds of innovative projects (including games) that make use of digital media for education and social change. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 4, 2010

It plays Habitat's name, Haiti relief, and pure greed -- it claims you can earn big tax-free commissions as a fundraiser. This is demonstrated in our role as a corporate sponsor for the HAITI RELIEF PROGRAM with money raised going towards helping displaced and disabled children and their families. Fundraising (at least in the U.S.)

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

TechSoup is united with the world in wishing a quick recovery to the people of Haiti after last week's devastating earthquake (and continuing aftershocks). We have heard from the library director and a consultant who was working with me on the project but we are still waiting to hear from other staff members.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2011

The great folks at UNICEF Haiti 365 were at SXSW on Sunday in the Beacon Lounge. Forum One sponsored the Green Room where Unicef recorded some videos for the project. The great folks at UNICEF Haiti 365 were at SXSW on Sunday in the Beacon Lounge. read more.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, cholera spreading into the bateyes posed an imminent threat as most of the workers migrated from Haiti. Get started!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some projects absolutely require hiring professional graphic designers. Nonprofits embraced text messaging and text-to-give in the years after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti , but since then, the technology has improved in its efficiency and cost. Charity Water’s Stream for Clean Water. 8) Consider launching a texting campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

combines professional instruction and friendly competition into a hands-on media-making project." International Affairs is the only sector that didn’t experience positive growth in 2011, due to the tremendous amount of online giving in 2010 in response to the Haiti earthquake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. At the time of the Haiti earthquake, very few people in the country were using Twitter, but it was enough to get news of needs out to the world. For others it was not so clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

iPhone apps are not a build it and they will come project! and especially since the dramatic success of the Red Cross Haiti text fundraising. But text fundraising is a whole different type of project than delivering content which might make a good "toe in the water with mobile" low-cost experiment. .

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TechImpact

JULY 17, 2014

Try instead “end hunger in haiti.” It is best to go about a project of this magnitude slowly and methodically, ensuring ever “i” is dotted, and each “t” is crossed. A few tips if you’re getting into search engine marketing: Start with a modest budget and increase slowly as you see desired results. Buy less expensive, longer keywords.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

This is the first time that the indices have included fundraising data related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Some important trends will be explored later to show analysis of post-Haiti giving.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Haiti-related giving shaped 2010 trends January 2010 had the largest percentage of online giving for the entire year. This change can almost single handedly be attributed to giving to Haiti relief efforts. The International Affairs and Health Care sectors now have more than 10% of their total fundraising from online giving.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

World Central Kitchen was founded by chef and activist José Andres in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, our founder José felt compelled by the news and flew down. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. We're currently active in 10 different countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

It happened in April at our NTEN/NTC session on the Networked Nonprofit right before our eyes in a room filled with people from nonprofits and Shawn , a passionate free agent fundraiser and video blogger. (You might know Shawn from his “ Uncultured &# project – I first encountered him in 2008 through Blog Action Day.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

This micro-volunteering site offers an iPhone app that lets you work on projects while you're in line at the bank, or waiting for the bus to pick you up. One recent project asked people to tag photos from Haiti in an effort to identify missing people. The Extraodinaries Got a minute? Go Abroad Want to volunteer on vacation?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Find a Clinton Foundation update on the project here.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2011

Forum One sponsored the Green Room where Unicef recorded some videos for the project. Forum One sponsored the Green Room where Unicef recorded some videos for the project. The great folks at Unicef 365 were at SXSW on Sunday in the Beacon Lounge. The great folks at Unicef 365 were at SXSW on Sunday in the Beacon Lounge. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile. These days, Microsoft employees don’t have to leave the company to launch and scale social ventures. Both had a personal experience, an encounter with extreme poverty – that touched their hearts and motivated them to do something.

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sgEngage

MAY 10, 2011

Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand along with floods and landslides in other parts of the world drove donors to give online. The makeup of this year’s list reinforces some of the findings in Blackbaud’s 2010 Online Giving Report. International organizations raised a tremendous amount online in 2010.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

There are also projects you can participate in online, to put your nptech skills to work for earthquake-devastated Haiti. Allyson Kapin writes up an article for the Care2 blog about the impact of mobile fundraising for the Red Cross (txt "Haiti" to 90999 to send $10!) Deadline to apply is Feb 19.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Annie Leonard , the director of The Story of Stuff Project , shared a rich story about they have built a global network of activists around the film. Diana shared some of her insights about networked leadership and keys for successful scaling. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Akhtar Badshah captured the story in this blog post.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. Its unique way of working is project management heavy.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 11, 2013

Real Time Charitable Giving | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Contributors to the “Text to Haiti” earthquake relief campaign were spur-of-the-moment donors who often induced friends and family to give, too, new research finds Report is first in-depth study of mobile giving WASHINGTON, DC – Charitable donations from mobile (..)

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. " The Movesmart.org project is an online tool for housing seekers in Chicago (and soon other cities across the United States).

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

This increase is especially noteworthy considering the substantial giving to Haiti in the prior year period.” This decrease continues a trend from January and is attributable to the large amount of Haiti relief giving in 2010. million in yearly revenue on a monthly basis.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Areas served: Mexico, Haiti, US (priority: Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Orleans). The Lucile Packard Foundation invests in programs and projects that contribute to improving systems of care for children with special health care needs and their families. They accept applications at any time. National Park Trust.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

project Haitiaidmap.org. over 40 organizations have and are doing in Haiti. You should see the projects and stories. here , and you can also participate in the project. . You know how we love us some data visualization around here, especially. mapping, so we were pretty excited to see InterAction 's pilot mapping.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps took off after the earthquake in Haiti. Project teams shared their progress with each other through a wiki, volunteers were recruited through twitter and texts, and tools could be worked on by a project team in one place and then "handed off" virtually to teams in other regions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Terraformation’s goal is to restore three billion acres of global native forest ecosystems by scaling tree replanting projects in parallel, scaling the use of existing techniques, and working with all the partners it can. For a little context, the U.S. contains some 2.27BN acres of total land area, per Wikipedia ).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Melissa Schilling , writer and photographer for Project Hope Art. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action. Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

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