Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al., However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. Banks were not lending.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, "Please give this family a place to stay for the night; and why dont you see if you can eliminate homelessness in the meantime?" I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

I joined a group project installing a mesh wireless network on Treasure Island, a community in San Francisco which is home to many low income families many of who were previously homeless. Cisco sponsored the project and provided the hardware for the network. We are all lucky to have her at the helm of NTEN.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Jacky was only 8 years old in 2010, when he was separated from his mother after the 2010 earthquake and forced into child slavery. After escaping he was left homeless and living on the streets of Haiti until discovered by Haiti Mama , a nonprofit organization committed to connecting homeless children with their families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. Step 10: Cultivate long-term relationships Build long-term relationships with funders and donors by keeping them informed and involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects.

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