Humanitarian News

WHY ?
A lot is published about aid, humanitarian work, and the nonprofit world as a whole. It fascinates me, both in the quantity of information and in the way it is dispersed. Few social aggregators, bookmarking and social media sites have categories specifically for the nonprofit sector, or offer selected news for the "soft" sector. Stuff is scattered everywhere. Searches via Google News on criteria like "aid" are more likely to return articles about "financial aid to US banks" rather than publications about "development aid to Africa"...

Humanitarian News collects the nonprofit news in a simple, low bandwidth and highly searchable site. It gives those working in the nonprofit sector an easier overview, and helps in broadcasting humanitarian issues to the "general public". Call it "advocacy through information"...

HOW ?
"Humanitarian News" is split into different sections:

AidNews contains only aid news articles and press releases from humanitarian agencies. There are about 200 different news sources in this stream.
AidWorker Blogs publishes updates from blogs by individual aidworkers spread all over the world. These people are "on the ground", working on development and aid projects.
NonProfit News contains the most recent updates from websites from individual organisations and sites specializing in nonprofit news.
NonProfit Blogs monitors 800+ individual nonprofit blogs.
Green News covers articles about the environment and nature conservation, retrieved from 100+ news and blog sources.

You can follow the latest updates via different Twitter streams, Facebook, and RSS feeds. As we monitor so many sources, you can use Humanitarian News as your main nonprofit news database, and automatically subscribe to the latest stories on the subjects you're intestested in..
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Enjoy!

peter (at) theroadtothehorizon (dot) org

You can follow the latest updates from Humanitarian News on different Twitter accounts, "flavoured" dependent on the type of news you like and what tweet volume you prefer:

All updates: @HumanityNews (for lower volume, try: @HumanityNews2)
Aid news: @AidNews (for lower volume, try: @AidNews2)
Aidworker blogs: @AidBlogs
NonProfit news: @AidResources (for lower volume, try: @AidResources2)
NonProfit blogs: @NonProfitBlogs (for lower volume, try: @NonProfitBlogs2)
Green news: @NewsOnGreen (for lower volume, try: @NewsOnGreen2)
Aid jobs: @AidJobs

The "lower volume" accounts (Twitter accounts ending in a "2") are limited to 2 Tweets per hour.

Once per day, we also publish several digests of our tweets presented in a magazine layout.