Press · the record

We did not write any of this.

That is the point.

Coverage of the work by newsrooms, and citations by the institutions that used it. Ordered by weight rather than by date.

One name changed

Most of this appeared under the NeedsList name. NeedsList was acquired in 2023 and its functionality now runs inside the Innovation Exchange. The deployments described are the same ones set out on the case-study pages.

Newsrooms and institutions

Six that a funder will recognise.

A newsroom deciding you are worth a segment, and a government deciding you are worth a citation, are different kinds of evidence. Both are here.

CNN

Quest Means Business

22 Dec 2022

The Wall Street Journal

Starbucks, Airbnb Help to Resettle Afghan Evacuees Off U.S. Military Bases

Dec 2021

The White House

6 Ways to Welcome Our Afghan Allies

17 Dec 2021

Forbes

Humanitarian Aid Platform Gets First-Hand Lessons From Hurricane Florence

30 Sep 2018

USAID

USAID Leads, episode 10

Dec 2019

PBS

Innovation in humanitarian relief

Video

Trade, local and long-form

The rest of the record.

ImpactAlpha

NeedsList raises $1 million for nonprofit crowdfunding platform

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump’s immigration stance a boon for this Stellar Startups finalist

24 Aug 2017

GrepBeat

The Download: Amanda Levinson, Chief Operating Officer, NeedsList

1 Dec 2020

Generocity

NeedsList funding, Village Capital accelerator

5 Jul 2017

See Change Magazine

Reinventing humanitarian aid: Natasha Freidus of NeedsList

Hypepotamus

Company profile

DataBird Journal

How to start a company from scratch

Apple Podcasts

Leveraging technology and a human-centred focus, episode 42

LinkedIn

Armillaria acquires NeedsList to improve community crisis management

2023

◇ Outlet names and dates were taken from the needslist.co press page and from the source URLs. Headlines for CNN, PBS, Hypepotamus, DataBird and Apple Podcasts are descriptive rather than verbatim. Check them against the originals before this page goes into a pitch.

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Coverage is not evidence. The deployments are.

Nine deployments, each with what it cost and what it moved. That is the part worth reading.

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