AFP Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Red Cross Uses Texts as a Weapon in West Africa Ebola Fight – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "Red Cross Uses Texts as a Weapon in West Africa Ebola Fight The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is using mobile communication to help stem the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone, sending out millions (..)

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Sierra Leone Philanthropy Africa Tips 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2017

between our Sierra Leone Mudslides appeal in August and our Harvey, Irma, and Mexico earthquake appeals in September. This is compared with 7.3% repeat rate among our non-disaster projects during the same time this year, and 6.3% among non-disaster projects in the same period of 2016.

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Donor Disaster Puerto Rico Sierra Leone 111

Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Magic of Finding and Presenting Compelling Data In this Chronicle of Philanthropy post Matthew Scharpnick argues that despite the big data hype for every new piece of valuable data, a lot more useless data surrounds and obscures it making it challenging to find useful insights.

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Guinea-Bissau Africa Equatorial Guinea Data 52

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

But even if you don't compare it to those kinds of investments, but simply investments in philanthropy, a recent study that just came out from the Foundation Center showed that it is about 5.8 When you think about the 90 billion odd dollars that go each year in support of philanthropy, you can see that there is still a lot of work to be done.

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