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Our Fertile Ground is helping solve the challenges facing youth by providing supportive community environments where children can thrive. The non-profit organization uses a peer support model in which trained teen counselors provide education and social support to children and adolescents living with...
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My name is Carol Nicolary and I am a Board Member of a non-profit missionary organization called Wings of Faith Ministries, Inc. We operate out of the Corona Airport in CA and provide support to missionaries serving the Native American Indian Nations in the Southwest US. We supply food, clothing, Bibles...
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We are the new non-profit housing ministry of Millard and Linda Fuller, who were also Founders of Habitat for Humanity. The Fuller Center for Housing began in 2005, and already there are affiliates in many U.S. cities (including Atlanta, where I live and work) as well as numerous countries around the...
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Hi, Mike, Welcome to TechSoup. Glad to have you here. This past week, the area where I live was hit hard with weather, massive power outages. That gave us a chance to put our emergencies systems through their paces... and to see how they were lacking. I am interested to read about this organization,...
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Thanks, Don. Sorry to be slow answering. This is a heavy usage season for the kind of software that I work with (end/beginning of year) and we are doing lots of tech support... :-) I appreciate all your help in understanding this topic. It's been hugely valuable to me. [quote user="donc"...
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Hi Don, Pondering is good, especially when thinking about committing to another project! I'm fine with keeping the discussion public. It may be long, boring and detailed for others, but they can just ignore it in that case. If we want to truly gauge interest, it might be better to start a thread...
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[quote user="shipley.c"]Using it to get some early warnings of disasters and getting updates from disaster areas completely depends on too many factors that are unreliable. [/quote] Chris, Don, Just ran into an interesting post about using Twitter for disasters on the Humanitarian ITC list...
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Hi, Don, Well, it's exciting to think that we could do something to be of service to this group. We'd just want to set it up in the way that was most likely to succeed, right? ... and interesting question, and one ideally suited to the TechSoup forum! [quote user="donc"]Where?[/quote...
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[quote user="donc"]where I live in this little world of ours is often named by scientists as the ‘global barometer of climate change’.[/quote] It makes me want to watch the Australian weather! [quote user="donc"]I would certainly suggest to any NPO's wishing to engage...
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Hi, Don, Thanks for the excellent resource links. Much food for thought. I became involved with helping small disaster relief organizations improve their donor management as a result of Katrina. As that work has evolved, I've begun to see just what you are saying: i.e. that the way that work was...