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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. The losses from Helene went beyond infrastructure and financial losseslives, ecologically rich lands, and irreplaceable cultural sites.

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Undocumented and Unprotected: How Immigration Status Amplifies Climate Vulnerability

NonProfit Quarterly

TIRRC is in the midst of launching a climate justice campaign on the heels of several climate disasters, including a flood that impacted South Nashville, a neighborhood with a large population of immigrants. “We Disaster planning, response, and recovery is not part of their core mission. In the meantime, climate change rages on.

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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

When we can look at numbers immediately after a disaster, it gives us a unique perspective. And 2023 set records in disaster relief funding. This is a chance rarely afforded after a disaster, when too little money is raised to come anywhere close to addressing needs.

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Commitment to funding Native self-determination 

Candid

Trust was built through efforts to understand the history of those we serve, respecting cultures and norms, supporting unique needs in each community, and aligning our grants to their values and priorities. 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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Infographic: Which Nonprofits are Rocking Social Media?

Care2

Disaster Relief. From August to October of 2011 the craigconnects team reviewed nonprofits by areas of focus to check out how they do social media and found out some great information. We investigated the top 5 nonprofits in the following categories based on total expenses provided by Charity Navigator: Animal. Environment.

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Two Looks At Nonprofit Social Media

The Agitator

For a macroview, The Nonprofit Quarterly reported recently on a Craigconnect study of fifty top US charities using social media, grouped in these focus categories — Animal, Children, Cultural, Disaster Relief, Environment, Health, Veterans & Military, and Women.

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Mobile Fundraising: A Complete Overview — Pt. 2 of 3

NonProfit Hub

Disaster relief. When most people think of text-to-give technology, they think of disaster relief efforts. 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. Arts and culture.