Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

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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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Late at night on Sunday August 29th, Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The good news is that no matter how far you are from the areas hit by Hurricane Ida, you can still help those impacted by the storm. Find the Helpers. Learn more and donate here.

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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 two places I looked for mechanisms are the (1) United Nations APELL program (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level) and (2) the U.S. I thought her comments would be worth posting.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Anthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media , a Web design and development agency based in NYC, as well as the co-founder of IHadCancer.com , one of the first social-networking sites for cancer survivors, fighters and supporters. Give back to your community (think local first).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. You can even add a good deed widget for your site. communities can compete with each other by fundraising on the GlobalGiving site.

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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. It’s a great way to get involved if you’re unable to volunteer your time on-site. Reach out to a relief organization before showing up on the site. Raise money. Volunteer, even if you’re far away.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. " Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. social tools + people = lives saved. . One person can post a message.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

If a local internet connection goes down due to connectivity or power failure, the rest of the network picks up the slack — and if there’s a full breakdown, the network can be used for internal communication, including messaging and news alerts within the network. “It would be a dream partnership.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For example, Zeitview scans large-scale solar plants and rates them on a scale of one to three, where each letter represents an aspect of the sites’ condition; the ratings are then bundled into a premium reporting service. Zeitview, it must be noted, is benefiting from the strength of the broader segment for aerial imaging.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

surviving Mother Nature’s wrath: tornado, hurricane, flood, fire. Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) outlining the off-site locations of backup servers, roles and responsibilities, emergency contacts, etc. There are two options: remote and local. With local, your. We’re thinking more along the lines of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Bernard that is providing hurricane survivors with the recovery resources they need in a safe and all-inclusive setting. She contacted me via Facebook after she my post on shopping for cause and my query for tips for how nonprofits can make the best of cause-related shopping sites. Link to the shopping site from your web site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2006

If Grace got a call from a source that she wasn’t sure was real, she would call the local fire department for more information. People wanted to see how her town looked before, as well as after the hurricane. Photo credit: Hurricane Katrina Donations (ii) by Barret Anspach blogher blogher06 disaster relief blog Tips from Dina 1.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2007

When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was the publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review , and we wanted to write a story about how nonprofits were helping the victims. The locals told him about several excellent small local nonprofits that provided supplies and help. What would you most like people to know about your site?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Rather than asking people to donate material items directly to your organization, you can create a public wish list on an e-commerce site like Amazon where your donors can buy items you need directly online. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Silent disco.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We're all familiar with it, a message saying "Help the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. " New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. Connect2Give Suite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

For many years, I've organized a pre-conference event called the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their expertise or volunteer for a local organization on a specific project. soil throughout the neighborhood, and ultimately deemed most of the site safe. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. That means two copies of your data, in two different places (maybe one local and one in the cloud), and accessible by two different people. How to Protect Your Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. 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. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Over time, companies become valued partners in addressing local issues, rather than occasional contributors. Meanwhile, local businesses surrounding a school or church are great options due to their proximity. Connect with local business owners.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Over time, companies become valued partners in addressing local issues, rather than occasional contributors. Meanwhile, local businesses surrounding a school or church are great options due to their proximity. Connect with local business owners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Carrie came to ALS from the Red Cross, so she brought all her crisis and disaster communications management skills and knowledge to the Ice Bucket Challenge as the campaign went viral and the donations came flooding in. “It felt like when I managed communications at the Red Cross during Hurricane Katrina.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

It enables people to find others in their local community to give things to that they would otherwise end up throwing away or taking to the landfill. I sent out one email to 30 or 40 friends and a handful of local nonprofits announcing the start of this Yahoo group. We've been around for about four years now. I'll call it Freecycle."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It has been ten days since Hurricane Maria has devastated the Island of Puerto Rico. I have my go-to global organizations that do a great job at relief efforts on the ground, set up funds for long-term rebuilding, or do a terrific job of vetting local charities to support. Local Charities. Where should be donate?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

We picked this up and we dedicated a staff person to coordinate a local effort to get Bay Area cities and counties on board to support the national effort, and to contribute their soft fleet orders to the national demand for plug-in hybrids. Britt Bravo: What are some things that are happening with plug-ins here in the Bay Area?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. And you see there, I put the link in there so you can actually go to the YouTube site and listen to this particular video. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Citizen-Powered Response. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2020

The story opens detailing how GSD provided disaster relief in the form of medical care and road-clearing crews after Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last year. They can arrive in complex situations with little understanding of the local context. The organization got its start in 2015 after Cyclone Pam pounded Vanuatu.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Anthony Chavez makes dinner deliveries during Hurricane Ida. Anthony Chavez delivers an ice cream during Hurricane Ida. Before the apps, sites like Seamless and Grubhub simply listed restaurants that already offered delivery. September 1, 6:30 P.M. Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police.

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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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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. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act. Conserve your water.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 14, 2024

For Hurricanes * Your shutters serve as the first line of defense against heavy winds and flying debris, protecting your windows and doors and, by extension, everything inside your facility. You can receive these notifications from the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service or often through your local news and weather forecast provider. *

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Image 2: The NetSquared site 1.0 ( cambodia4kidsorg ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Ring Alarm Pro is a single device combining Ring’s security system with an Eero Wi-Fi router, 24/7 internet backup, and local processing and storage for Ring cameras. And, with a new processor on board, the Ring Alarm Pro can connect to Ring cameras to process and store videos locally. Image: Ring. The Ring Alarm Pro costs $249.99

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Local, state, and federal agency representatives spoke about efforts to extend broadband connectivity to small businesses and individuals as a crucial stepping stone towards economic development and civic involvement. The WEB Dubois Center is active in supporting technology at 20 sites within the Swope Corridor Renaissance area.

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