Hurricane Season Preparation: Technology to Gear up Nonprofits
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As hurricane season quickly approaches, the Emergency Management offices warn residents across the country to prepare themselves. Residents, however, are not the only community members who should gear up for the upcoming months. Local nonprofit organizations need to prepare and organize for a potential disaster in order to better serve the community.
In 2005, when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, community members were unable to receive aid by local nonprofits because many of them were also affected by the storm. According to the Urban Institute, many charities were physically destroyed while others lost all of their data; only 19% of nonprofits remained fully operational in the New Orleans metropolitan area 6 months after the hurricane.
To avoid the possibility of losing client information, many nonprofits are moving to technologically sophisticated online data management software. The big reason for this move is that the most secure data is web-based. With remote storage and backup, online data management applications can be securely accessed simply by going on the web from any location that has an Internet connection.
CTK created an online data management product called “Apricot” specifically for smaller nonprofits (those with annual budgets of $750,000 or less). In addition to the disaster recovery aspect of the software, Apricot offers highly secure data collection and reporting capabilities.
As hurricane season quickly approaches, the Emergency Management offices warn residents across the country to prepare themselves. Residents, however, are not the only community members who should gear up for the upcoming months. Local nonprofit organizations need to prepare and organize for a potential disaster in order to better serve the community.
In 2005, when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, community members were unable to receive aid by local nonprofits because many of them were also affected by the storm. According to the Urban Institute, many charities were physically destroyed while others lost all of their data; only 19% of nonprofits remained fully operational in the New Orleans metropolitan area 6 months after the hurricane.
To avoid the possibility of losing client information, many nonprofits are moving to technologically sophisticated online data management software. The big reason for this move is that the most secure data is web-based. With remote storage and backup, online data management applications can be securely accessed simply by going on the web from any location that has an Internet connection.
CTK created an online data management product called “Apricot” specifically for smaller nonprofits (those with annual budgets of $750,000 or less). In addition to the disaster recovery aspect of the software, Apricot offers highly secure data collection and reporting capabilities.
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