13630 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/disaster-philanthropy-what-matters/Few foundations think of themselves as disaster funders … until the next disaster strikes. Their desire to be strategic and have impact leads them to shun program areas and ways of working that are reactive in nature. But the desire to help those in need is so hard-wired into foundations’ DNA that....Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:41:00 +0200alliancemagazine-aae2bbef8cc192c01532a2736caaf5b220200915194100https://www.alliancemagazine.org/feature/still-missing-the-bus-indian-ngos-after-the-gujarat-earthquake/In the wake of the earthquake that devastated Gujarat in January 2001, civil society organizations mobilized to an unprecedented degree to bring relief. They played a key role and, equally importantly, were seen to have played it. Will this translate into greater recognition and legitimacy for CSOs?....Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:41:00 +0200alliancemagazine-0cc6ead1921d18924280143d0bbc09ea20200915194100https://www.alliancemagazine.org/news/appc-responding-more-effectively-to-disasters/By the time this column is printed, the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, in collaboration with Charities Aid Foundation, will have held its international conference on ‘Philanthropy in Disasters: Tsunami and After’ (28-30 November in Phuket, Thailand).Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:41:00 +0200alliancemagazine-7995d5682606d5127eba7a4e9f845e5d20200915194100https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/articles/z0508_00104.htmlIn December 2019, researchers from the Earthquake Research Institute ran an earthquake test simulation to collect data about buildings with modern architecture. In parallel with their test, they invited international research teams to predict how the test structure might react.Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:44:00 +0200u-tokyo-c6a5a0a82a49fe72537e72d3de1e9f0120200915074400