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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. Mark Horvath has also formed a nonprofit for his work.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Tech Soup

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. About the Success Stories Contest. You might think you'd never do that. In the U.S.,

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. This can take time, but it pays off. The worst time to pitch about the event is after it happened.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Pacific Time (PT) and ends July 19, 2014 at 11:59:59 p.m. All submissions must be received by the Challenge end date and time. Poke around the map and see for yourself.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Why bother having a web site at all?

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33+ Giving Tuesday Ideas: Expert Tips and Campaigns to Try

Bloomerang

Photo Contest. Once you have analyzed the results, you can decide how much time and effort should be expended for Giving Tuesday in the future. . This means it will take some time to plan out your campaigns. Some aspects of the page that lead to a drawn-out or negative experience include: Slow page loading time.

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

Board fundraisers – Your nonprofit board of directors is the governing body of your organization. John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party.

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