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How L.A. can rebuild after the wildfires without leaving vulnerable residents behind

Fast Company Tech

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. In the Los Angeles area, those risks are now impossible to ignore. Many working-class families lost their homes , businesses, and jobs.

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As a Disaster Unfolds, Fundraisers Can Do More Than Raise Money

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Big Sunday , a service organization based in Los Angeles, provided a list of resources during the wildfires in 2025, including evacuation sites, air quality maps, and insurance tips. Use your outstanding problem-solving and people skills to collaborate with other groups to supplement your organizations capabilities.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our official launch of text communication will be done at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game on November 27 th. Our official launch of text-to-donate will be January 3, 2011 at another Los Angeles Kings hockey game. What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner?

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SocialCoding4Good: Mobilizing Technology and Volunteerism for Transformative Impact

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Often there's a mismatch between the skills of a volunteer and the skills required by our projects. It turns out that leading tech companies are eager to have skills-based volunteer opportunities for their employees, especially those that advance social and humanitarian goals. We’d love to meet you there!

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5 tips to help nonprofits meet unforeseen challenges 

Candid

Prioritizing people can take many forms, such as ongoing reviews of team performance against mission-aligned objectives, creating incentives for innovation, or identifying skills for future needs. Secure multiple funding streams No money, no mission, the saying goes in the nonprofit sector.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

In 2013, she cofounded Coucou French Classes, which provides in-person classes in New York and Los Angeles. subtitles, can be a surprisingly effective way to build your real-world language skills. Originally from Toulouse, France, Perret moved to New York 17 years ago and has been teaching French in the U.S. since then.

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LA-based MarketerHire upgrades its service matching remote marketers with companies

TechCrunch

MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. . Brands can typically fill their open positions in as little as 48 hours, the company said.