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How Smithfield Foods is Doing Well by Doing Good (And What You Can Learn From Them) [SPONSORED]

Selfish Giving

If you’re operating in the cause marketing space and you’ve never heard of Smithfield Foods , you’re missing out. To provide some scale, Smithfield is one of the largest global food and consumer packed meats companies in the world, to the tune of $14 billion. As a professional development investment, attendance at COMMIT!Forum

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How To Help After Hurricane Helene

Bloomerang

The Salvation Army is providing food, drinks, shelter, emotional and spiritual care, and other emergency services to hurricane survivors and rescue workers. Coast Guard Mutual Assistance (CGMA) , the official relief society of the U.S. Funds raised go to Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) in Virginia.

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

In recent years, the group, labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as right-wing extremists , has been painting a different picture of itself—as a disaster relief organization. Militia Groups’ Recruitment Strategy Militia groups often appear before federal agencies after natural disasters.

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Commitment to funding Native self-determination 

Candid

For decades, Native American tribes have faced economic and food insecurity, education barriers, substandard and overcrowded housing, and limited healthcare—all tied to flawed federal policies and broken treaties. PWNA provided $8,000 in disaster relief funding to heat the center so that Crow Creek tribal schoolteachers could tutor students.

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How Texas Businesses are Helping Hurricane Harvey Victims

Selfish Giving

They have provided over $1 million in free meals, food bank donations and financial contributions. They are actively encouraging their social media following and the community to donate to the relief effort and offering $1 donations at many local restaurants for each drink purchased using their vodka.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. On average, over 50% of disaster relief funding goes to immediate response and relief, while just 10% goes to reconstruction and recovery.

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Puerto Rico: The Critical Role of Information and the Nonprofit Sector in Disaster Living

NonProfit Quarterly

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which “ was signed into law in 1988 to create an orderly system to get federal assistance to state and local governments in the wake of natural disasters.”. All the learnings from Maria were activated this time. The electricity grid has not recovered since Maria.