Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

We had all these amazing volunteers and food trucks and chefs who had managed their own businesses but lost so much after the hurricane and decided that they wanted to offer their time and resources to WCK. We had over 20,000 volunteers in Puerto Rico alone, most of whom were Puerto Ricans who had been impacted by the hurricane themselves.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Imagine a hurricane bearing down on an isolated village. For example, basic SMS and telephone messaging are being used to educate students in remote areas of Pakistan, to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and to raise funds for East African drought relief. Worst of all, many villagers will be injured or killed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

According to a study by the journal, Political Psychology , students who were already "community-minded" were not affected by community service requirements at their school, but students who were more "self-interested" developed a, "willingnes to donate their time to charity as well as a greater political awareness."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. is an ongoing book and blog project that shares schoolyard stories -- both good and bad -- to help current student feel less alone in their social bewilderment. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2008

Virtually New Orleans : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera: "High school students enrolled in the camp are spending this week intensively exploring what led up to the 2005 storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and went down in history books as one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. The US projects are an interesting mix - several in the gulf coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Preparation and Resiliency: The talents and expertise are an enormous untapped resource in preparing our communities for natural and man-made disasters of all kinds, whether it’s hurricanes, earthquakes, school shootings, or global pandemics like COVID – 19. There’s an app for that!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Since its inception, mobile fundraising has been used to bring aid to those in need in the wake of natural disasters, from hurricanes to earthquakes to wildfires and everything in between. Teachers, parents, administrators, and students alike all use mobile fundraising to improve their schools.

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The devastation we see from Hurricane Ian's destructive path is hard to process. If you have time, talent, or treasure to donate to support these organizations serving in the wake of Hurricane Ian, please do. Click here to find ways to volunteer and assist those in need from the devastation of Hurricane Ian.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I see that there is a major tipping point happening in the global climate change movement and consciousness of global warming, thanks in part to Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth , and simply the manifestations that we have seen from hurricanes to melting icecaps, and that it's a time that I could not be working on anything else but this.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The beneficiary is the SoCal Fire Fund, which works with vulnerable students, school employees and families recovering from the blazes. A 2012 power-on party after Hurricane Sandy stands out as the craziest example, he said. Quirarte said the event, co-sponsored by dating app Bumble, garnered more than $20,000.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Some rural areas, like the Missouri county mentioned by Kelvin Simmons, Commissioner of the Office of Administration, have "absolutely no broadband access," which keeps students from doing homework assignments that are placed on school websites.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

When Hurricane Hermine hit Tallahassee in 2016, I had parked my car at the top of a hill next to a water drain — to keep it, and all the stuff I had inside of it, safe. but as a film student, I was way more bent out of shape about losing my camera than my transportation. . — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. Photo by Mitchell Clark / The Verge.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

It's an amazing act of love really in response to the hurricane and the racial neglect that occurred down on the Gulf. And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. Do not isolate. It's so easy.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 9, 2025

Varikuti, who was then a 9th grade student, knew there had to be a solution. So, as part of a student design competition organized by the design software company Autodesk, Varikuti put his mind to coming up with a design for a home that could better withstand the extreme conditions of the Outer Banks.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Former leaders of the agency have said the firings will have wide-ranging negative impacts on flight safety, shipping safety and warning networks for tornados and hurricanes. Shrinking the federal workforce The Trump administration has not disclosed what positions are being lost at NOAA. NOAA has about 13,000 employees.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We’ve got public school teachers in 89% of schools across the country requesting materials they need to teach their students. I would be curious about donor fatigue because there’s been a sense of urgency post-hurricane for taking care of communities and setting up disaster funds,” she said.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

The volunteers are especially visible after natural disasters , including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Helene last year. The program also provides members who complete their 1,700-hour service term with funding for future education expenses or to apply to certain student loans. It celebrated its 30th year last year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

They’re students of Silicon Valley history, and so I imagine they already are.) Related, from Glossier’s Ashley Mayer: VCs learn about hurricanes. Still: look for a slower pace of innovation and acquisitions than we might have seen otherwise. Tech’s labor issues accelerate. No new apps are released in 2021.

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