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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

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Puerto Rico “ earthquake swarm.” Puerto Rico experienced a series of earthquakes beginning in December 2019. We identified $791,176 to date in earthquake funding for Puerto Rico. How COVID-19 impacted disaster response efforts. million in aid. On January 7, 2020, a 6.4 or greater on the Richter scale.

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Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment

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The platform, born out of his experiences at Riverhouse, provided a light-bulb moment to Blantern, who in March this year launched Impact Rooms to provide solutions to some of the obstacles that founders, investors and executives regularly face. Impact Rooms is backed by US-based investment group Global Blockchain Ventures (GBV).

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

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Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. And it worked really well in Puerto Rico - we’ve served over 3.6 We're currently active in 10 different countries. million meals!

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, we’re introducing our first Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort on zero hunger and their work on U.S Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. How might we inspire funders to work toward long-range impact? Food Insecurity.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

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Her third round of grants in less than a year, Scott wrote that grant recipients were “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.” and Puerto Rico. As we noted in our last post, transparency does not guarantee effectiveness or impact. Geography .

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Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

Saleforce Nonprofit

Salesforce nonprofit customers around the world are leveraging HandsOn Connect to manage over 42,000 volunteer shifts, both in person and virtual, impacting areas as varied as food insecurity, vaccine distribution, and the environment. . Nonprofits around the world are leveraging HandsOn Connect to manage over 42,000 volunteer shifts.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

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RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. GiveShop: A matchmaking platform to connect companies that want to give with social impact projects that need money. Firecell: Helps enterprises build private 4G/5G networks.