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A Free Agent and Nonprofits Working Together To End Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m supporting the organizations working on the front line and I’m doing the best I can to fight homelessness.&# Mark is an expert at using social media to connect his work on the ground with a broader network of people and organizations who share his goal. This year, he has a film crew following him creating a documentary.

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Three Unassuming Twenty Hats Posts that Volunteer Managers Need to Read

Twenty Hats

On the other hand, I feel like the existing posts do a good job of articulating my volunteer engagement philosophy: that quality volunteer engagement cannot occur without motivated, dedicated, and well-trained volunteer managers. All that’s to say that I reflected more than usual on what to convey with this post.

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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

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Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes. Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Why are you afraid? Is it because you think you will come across as greedy?

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

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Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer.

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

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Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. I may want to help end homelessness, but not have a clue how to make a difference on a scale that moves the needle. Or a new donor responded with bigheartedness to an emergency appeal. . Or people simply chipped in what they could.

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The whole speech is 12 minutes, and if you want some tips about reaching millenials I’d advise watching the whole thing [quick tip: animals and homelessness]. DoSomething’s Nancy Lublin puts a very real face on the cost of our failure to collaborate in her PdF talk. But if you only have time for the hard questions, start at 6:30.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. The people with skills are out there.

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