Candid

MAY 26, 2021

Kurt Lewin We’re two decades into the internet era; why is it still easier to buy a book about hurricanes than help a storm’s victims? In one longitudinal study, people gave more for hurricane relief if the name of the hurricane started with the same letter as their own name. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

No doubt that Rick Fox has had plenty of emotional moments in his life. There’s been nothing more rewarding for me in my life than to be a part of this team where we’re leaving something behind,” Fox told TechCrunch+. It was still reeling from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. “It

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2021

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that it’s important to recognize when others are having a very different life experience than I am. As I write this, I’m evacuated from my home in New Orleans due to Hurricane Ida and have been for nearly two weeks. Thankfully, my dog and I are safe with family.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The police and fire department can save your life in an emergency, but they do not have the time or resources to help you clean out your home,” said Dr. Douglas Zimmerman, president and CEO of VisionLink. During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, VisionLink became the nation's system of record for millions of people and thousands of shelters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Repairing a home that’s been destroyed in a hurricane, tornado, flood or fire can take quite a while, displacing homeowners during that time. Captain founder and CEO Demetrius Gray noted that following storms, like the Katrina and Sandy hurricanes, the average primary recovery period was 14 months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2013

My father had a deep-seated love of the ocean and was a life guard for 30 years for the Ventnor City Beach Patrol. This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer. kanter Mom was from fishing village, Granddad kept a lighthouse, much of my early life spent at beach/near water.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

However, when I thought back to what has made us so successful in the past, I knew that culture and employee happiness is what enhances the quality of life for my team, so the answer was clear. Like most small business owners, I had to decide if I should compromise morale-boosting activities in order to prevent a dent in revenue.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Android, iOS, Windows Phone) connects you with friends and family during a large-scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane. The Red Cross hurricane app uses GPS to find the nearest shelters. Read about how Pocket First Aid & CPR helped save a life in the Haiti Earthquake of 2010. Microsoft's HelpBridge.

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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. In August of 2005, she had barely begun getting things in order when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck. It was not an easy road for Nancy. To be sure, Nancy Jo Craig is an accomplished woman. It as a lucky thing they did.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2012

Jody was introduced to blogging while on assignment with the public affairs team assigned to the Houston Astrodome during the American Red Cross disaster relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina. She returned home and started a “mommy blog” – purely as a hobby and virtual scrapbook.

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DipJar

APRIL 20, 2021

Loggerhead Marine Life, Turbo’s Release. During this time, the eggs can be eaten by predators, damaged by tropical storms and hurricanes, exposed by beach goers digging on the beach, and more. Most recently, LMC began offering virtual educational lessons, videos and activities for at home learners.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Like their meteorological namesakes, data clouds can be life sustaining, or they can rain down havoc on your business, wash away your profits, and leave you in a state of emergency. Stick with those two rules, do your technology risk due diligence, and may all of your clouds be life sustaining.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. The organization was founded by Richard Proudfit who was on a medical mission to Honduras after a hurricane ravaged the country.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We opened ourselves up, invited communities, and created an expectation that asking for help in these spaces will result in real-life action. " Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. Please bring them water."

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. Our broader goal is to invigorate Jewish life in America with the values of service and we hope that this effort can help energize a new generation of Jewish leaders to step up and act. But here we are, two years later.

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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. It took place about three weeks after my sniper partner, Clay Hunt, took his own life.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Once Lynk puts a few more satellites in orbit, it could cover a good deal of the planet in signal — a narrow and intermittent signal, to be sure, but that’s way better than nothing if you break your ankle while hiking in the backcountry or want to assure your family you’re okay after a hurricane knocks out power in your city.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Maybe the love of your life is allergic to roses or maybe he or she is trying to drop a few pounds, so chocolates (even if they are fair trade chocolates ) may not fly. What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit?

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2021

I live in New York, a city on the water, but I hardly feel the impacts of living on the fringes of maritime culture unless I’m at one of the parks that overlook the harbors or there’s a disaster, like Hurricane Sandy. There is an undeniable mystique to water. The ocean was the first frontier, which is why we call space the final frontier.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Rockin' CD to Benefit Hurricane Katrina Survivors The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has produced a CD called, " Eye of the Storm: Love and Rage from the Bay to the Gulf ", to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Look how cute these chimps are.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

It was certainly a life-changing moment, and the response was profound and amazing. It’s normal to feel pangs of fear every time a big event happens – hurricanes, earthquakes, war, global humanitarian crises – taking away some of your donors’ attention. Folks across the U.S. How much would we be short?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

He says that his inspiration for doing this work came to him in wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when AFP needed to find additional ways to stay in touch with members. He told me that he has a passion for showing members how to use new technologies, and he also likes to catalog new tools in AFP’s Resource Center.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Emergency relief Emergency or disaster relief volunteers come into play after a major, devastating event, such as an earthquake or hurricane. Teaching volunteers valuable life skills. Your volunteer programs can create opportunities to bring like-minded people together and learn from those who come from different walks of life.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. The amount of money we can give isn’t life-changing for them, but it can help out in a tight situation. We are more than a call center answered by a bot.

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Classy

AUGUST 17, 2021

All donations are currently being routed to provide immediate support, which is a natural extension of Hope for Haiti’s mission to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children. Photo featured on the Hope for Haiti website. Get real-time updates on social media: Instagram: @hopeforhaiti . Facebook: Hope for Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Life in Africa. Donations can be made here. Community Center of St.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. And, even as I write this blog (October 1st), another 58 innocent lives were just taken and more than 500 additional people were injured in Las Vegas because of one person’s blatant disregard for the value of human life. Tensions with North Korea. will stop the hate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Since last Christmas, our planet has suffered through the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, this week's devastating earthquake in Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the recent horrific mudslides in Central America. What a year. Despite Katrina, your current members continue to care about your issue and understand that your work is valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We're all familiar with it, a message saying "Help the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. Kudos to Erin Palmer over at TechSoup's NetSquared Project for this: "The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that, as of early 2012, 88% of American adults had a cell phone. Text MUTUALAID to 69866 to donate $10."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 2, 2006

I don't know if it is that we're halfway through the 00's , or that it is over 4 years since 9/11, or that Hurricane Katrina put extreme poverty on the evening news, but it feels like America is waking up from a long sleep and somehow becoming more conscious of the country that it needs to become.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Campaign update: Thank you again for your donation to our hurricane relief campaign! Christina is a life-long figure skater. Thank-you text: Thank you for your $20 donation to the Puppies for Peace campaign, Ella! We couldn’t make a difference without you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Another option, is to sponsor a woman who wants to make a better life some place in the world. It's also one of the worse months for hurricanes and the Red Cross has made it easy to give a donation with your cell phone through its text 2 give program. Britt Bravo recommends Women for Women International.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

While I am sad to leave this major chapter of my life behind, I am excited to test my entrepreneurial chops for a second time. I travelled the country speaking at every nonprofit conference that would have me. Over the years we faced many highs and lows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD. She also gave an example of young patient activist, Sara Ringer , who has a passion for spreading awareness and accurate information about Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. Learn more about these thought leaders and their respective areas of expertise in the following breakdown of our 2021 Leadership Council. Academic Institutions. Alnoor Ebrahim. Professor of Management. World Central Kitchen.

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