Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. Organization(s) : mGive & Keep A Child Alive, mGive & the Washington Nationals, The MLB and the Children’s National Medical Center, mGive & The All-Star Game, Stand Up for Cancer, and Make a Wish Foundation. Organization(s) : The U.S. Integrated Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This site, MyGoodDeed is encouraging people to pause and share their plans for a personal good deed. You can even add a good deed widget for your site. September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina hit, she and her blogging partner decided to write a post asking their readers to post items in the comments section that they could donate to Katrina survivors. The site continues today and has expanded to areas like Pittsburg, where Katrina survivors have been re-located.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

Looking for something edifying to write about I went to look at the web site of the YMCA of New Orleans and found … silence. And numerous YMCAs all over the country have announced that all of their facilities are free to people displaced by the hurricane. YMCAs seem to have several built-in ways to help out.

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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. Free Books for Kids! Look how cute these chimps are. Thanks to Musings of a Social Architect for this link.

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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. What makes Great Nonprofits different from other sites that offer ways for people to connect with nonprofits to volunteer or give money? Or after school program?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. Our latest Web Executive Seminar, “ Web Sites without Walls ,” featured four speakers who are helping change the landscape for content sharing.

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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. Microsoft has a mountain of great and easy-to-use resources available at their Safer Online site. Back Up Your Data Securely. Learn More.

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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. The work included daily updates to the press and web site about how much was raised, addressing questions, and correcting false perceptions about slacktivists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I talked with Jodie Van Horn, a campaigner for Rainforest Action Network 's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area about the plug-in campaign in the Bay Area as well as the national Freedom from Oil Campaign. Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. You may want to become a monthly donor to a couple of other programs as well of organizations that are similar to yours, maybe some big national organization that you can just say, “Hey, let me see what they’re doing.”

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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. And increasingly,I look at and try to find a reputable crowdfunding campaign from a site like GoFundMe or YouCaring, usually thought a friend or connection. Where should be donate? For example, Global Giving.

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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. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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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. For All Weather Incidents * Document everything you can with pictures and videos, and store copies off-site. Close all exterior doors and windows.

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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. Cut down on car travel.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. The WEB Dubois Center is active in supporting technology at 20 sites within the Swope Corridor Renaissance area.

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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. Cut down on car travel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

You don’t want to find out you planned your beach day 5K during a hurricane or an outdoor concert during a thunderstorm! The National Weather Service offers an app that provides hourly updates and weather alerts directly to your smart phone. If you’re engaging in a somewhat risky activity, it may help to have paramedics on site.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

weather data, with sample datasets of real-world natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, winter storms, tornados and cold waves. CorrDiff predictions are embedded in the centers disaster monitoring site , helping Taiwan forecasters better prepare for typhoons. The optimized CorrDiff NIM microservice for U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

One national homebuilder, KB Home, believes that risk can be reduced by building a wildfire-resilient neighborhood. The organization even has a 90-acre test site in South Carolina where it builds and then blasts apart homes, recreating Category 3 hurricanes and wildfires to test the latest in material safety and building codes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

We save lives and there are people alive today because of the work we do,” said Doug Chabot, who directed the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center in Montana for almost 24 years. “To take funding and to just randomly cut programs, it will affect our ability to save lives. NOAA has about 13,000 employees.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

The rampaging insect menaces Americas Arctic military outposts , part of a critical line of national defense , before heading south and meeting its end in New York City. militarys concerns then and now about the Arctics stability and its role in national security. Over time, the U.S. By adapting to climate change, the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is most well known for the National Weather Service, providing forecasting that underpins local meteorological reports and major sites like AccuWeather. But the data that NOAA collects is also crucial for private-sector industries, from airlines to insurance.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

After Trump administration job cuts , nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates twice that of just a decade ago as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland , according to data obtained by The Associated Press. Its just that much harder and it puts lives at risk, Placky said.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 7, 2025

A 1978 Louisiana coastal management law mandated that sites used by oil companies “be cleared, revegetated, detoxified, and otherwise restored as near as practicable to their original condition” after operations ended. Industrial wastewater from oil production degrades the surrounding soil and vegetation.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Over the coming days, as the National Guard is now deployed, probably the largest one that I would worry about would be excessive use of police or military force. This post includes images and videos of those scenes captured across the country, which were shared widely across social sites. Sottek / The Verge ). Joseph Menn / Reuters).

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

Earlier this year, elected officials from 18 towns and counties devastated by Hurricane Helene gathered outside the Madison County courthouse in Marshall, North Carolina. They, like most of the people impacted by Hurricane Helenes rampage in September, dont doubt another flood is coming.

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