The new source of power
is not money
in the hands of a few,
but information
in the hands of many.

                     John Naisbitt
 


WHAT ?
Per month, "Humanitarian News" retrieves around 30,000 articles from over 1,000+ different sources: blogs, websites or news bulletins. Each source covers humanitarian subjects, be it aid, development, humanitarian emergencies, poverty relief, news from the nonprofit sector or the environment. While all sources are carefully handpicked to keep the information relevant, the updates and retrieval of the articles are automated.

"Humanitarian News" is a personal initiative, started in August 2009. I continuously add new features, often with the help of my technical geniuses.

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, sorted by source rather than subject:

• 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..
Check all tools we have available for you.

Enjoy!

peter (at) theroadtothehorizon (dot) org