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Facebook tool helps charities find evacuees who need help
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - In a disaster like Hurricane Florence , when emergency responders need to pinpoint trouble spots where people need to be rescued, other relief agencies that offer long-term help need to know where evacuees fled to escape the danger.
Some of those charities are using a disaster mapping tool recently developed by Facebook to help do that in North Carolina. The tool provides anonymous data to show locations that are shedding people and those that are gaining them. It tracks the movements of groups, but not individuals.
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If you’re at all active on social media or in non-profit marketing, you’ve probably heard of Charity: Water. They’re one of Silicon Valley’s favorite charities, they are exceptionally good at marketing, and by most accounts they do good work. Charity:
How 2 Rural Hospitals Use Charities to Help Patients with Out-Of-Pocket Costs
Wayne Memorial and Ballad Health are using financial aid to help alleviate medical bills for their rural populations and reduce bad debt.
How this IoT device from charity: water could advance water access for billions
With billions of people around the world relying on hand pumps to get water, nonprofit charity: water developed a device to create access.
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A look at some of the new ways to get patients more involved in their care
Fighting Back: 3 Tools To Combat Meter Tampering
Tampering with water meters is outright theft that costs everyone who plays by the rules. It’s what happens when consumers — end users, landlords, businesses, and in some cases even municipal employees with specialized knowledge of a water system — alter a device to avoid paying the cost of their actual usage. Putting a dent in the problem requires a multifaceted strategy.
Using Advanced Tools To Stem The Lost Revenue Tide
From the largest metropolitan utilities to the smallest water systems, leaks are a problem everywhere. Because it’s difficult to raise consumer prices to offset the losses, non-revenue water has a direct impact on the bottom line of municipal water systems. However, utility managers now have an opportunity to reverse the problem with advanced flow meter technology that combines multiple measurements.
Advance warning tools aim to curb droughts, prevent 'water wars'
Water scarcity is a global security risk. Researchers are developing ways to forecast risks to prevent conflicts.
6 Practice Management Tools Successful Medical Practices Swear By
Here are six practice management tools successful medical practices swear by to help you achieve your operating goals.
Five effective tools to get you back on your feet when disaster strikes
When you land on Dr. Laurie Nadel’s website, you’re told from the get-go that “Dr. Laurie is not the right practitioner for everyone.” A somewhat comforting sentence quickly fo…
What's your favorite charity? Momma's BBQ needs your help
Momma's Mustard, Pickles & BBQ donates 2% of all sales to local organizations, but the restaurant wants to know your favorite.
Why giving to these charities just got more urgent
Hunger persists even during times of plenty. And a federal move to tighten food stamp requirements is likely to make the problem worse.
More than 600 animals found abandoned by Florence evacuees
“Dogs tied to trees, chickens floating in water, dead horses, animals struggling to survive and taking their last breaths of air."
Charity urgently appeals for Wigan people to care for its guide dog puppies
A charity training guide dogs is urgently looking for people in the borough to join its team of volunteers helping to care for and train puppies.
What Really Happens When You Give a Goat?
Have you wondered what happens when you give a goat to charity? Find out how it works and how it transformed one family's life in Uganda!
Therapeutic Tool or Tool to Scam Landlords?
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Animal experiment stats show reluctance to embrace modern tools
A shockingly high number of dogs, mice, cats, rabbits and other animals are still suffering in invasive, painful and sometimes lethal experiments in British laboratories.
