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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

"It's a novel idea that homeless youth have so much to offer, and that these youth could really make the difference at this shelter. As it turns out, so many of these youth absolutely love animals." - Rachel Cohen Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw.

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. Notable individual contributions include $30 million from an anonymous Pakistani donor, who reportedly walked into the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., The disaster also displaced over 1.9 An estimated 2.2

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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

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Or maybe your Executive Director or Board wants you to focus on certain ones? There are grants out there for programs, general operations, projects, and capital – but not all funders award all of these. Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Prioritize your list. Determine costs.

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Community Organizing and Social Justice Measurement in the Connected Age

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept. The statistics listed were sourced from the Internet World Stats Index.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

You can put this in Excel and you can have all these different criteria, areas of interest, the award amounts, similar grantees in the same space, if there’s an organizational connection so that you can cultivate a relationship. I’m going to say Washington, DC, because that’s my neighboring city here. Steven: Got it.

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