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Tracy Kamen’s Role in Navigating Disaster Relief

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Bridging the Gap: Navigating Disaster Relief Global Empowerment Mission , founded in 2011, is Tracy Kamen’s current canvas for creating positive change. Reflecting on her promotion, Tracy shares, “I have some footing in government relations.

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Newsletter: Should You Ask Partners for a Minimum Revenue Commitment? ; UK Chicken Shops Ask Diners to Go #KnifeFree ; Google’s Unusual Plan for Disaster Relief

Selfish Giving

Interestingly, the group Word on the Curb is turning this cause campaign around and sending the chicken boxes back to the government agency that spent £57,000 to launch it. Google’s unusual plan for disaster relief: just give survivors money. Like me, you're too pretty for prison. Brain Food 1. Why, yes, Genvieve, I have").

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Josiah S on istock.com Founded in March 2009, the Oath Keepers are an anti-government far-right militia group comprising former law enforcement, first responders, and former military who pledge to defend the United States against government tyranny at all costs.

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How You Can Help with Disaster Relief

NonProfit Hub

Here’s how you can help with disaster relief efforts today and every day. You may be hoarding extra clothes and supplies, but donate your money, rather than your items, to relief organizations. Another way to help disaster victims is to join the fundraising effort. Turn those feelings into action! Give money, not things.

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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. Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared.

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Using Technology to Bring the Nonprofit and For-Profit Worlds Together

Selfish Giving

Nonprofits Leverage Social Media According to The Guardian , Deborah Alisina , CEO of Bowel Cancer UK , used Twitter to organize “tweet-ups” to initiate dialogue and solicit feedback from cancer survivors on the company’s efforts, and also to rally the web community in an effort to push certain policies forward in the UK government.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

We spoke with Ingrid Srinath, founder and director of the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy ( CSIP ) at Ashoka University, to learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on India’s social sector, the role philanthropy and nonprofits played in disaster relief, and her hopes for the future. .