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Holding a Golf Tournament This Summer? Here are our Top Reminders!

Greater Giving

An Auction ON and OFF the Green. Use a mobile bidding platform to host your auction so guests can bid on items anywhere on the green, at any time during the event. An animal shelter might give homeless dogs some outside time and put a pup at each stop to encourage breaks. Hold an auction in conjunction with your golf tournament!

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Refurbished Computers for Nonprofit Serving Homeless

Tech Soup

The mission of Transition Projects is to help people to transition from homelessness to permanent housing. This is an interview between Keli Sullivan, TechSoup’s RCI Program specialist and Candice Erdmann, information manager, at Transition Projects in Portland, Oregon.

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Panhandling or Hotspot Vendor: Which is better?

NTEN

What BBH Labs did with Homeless Hotspots is a harmless and fun idea that provides a positive interaction between homeless people and the rest of you. Plus, our homeless friends made a few bucks. We’ve all been panhandled by a homeless person on street begging for money. Mark Horvath. Invisible People.

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Make This a More Inclusive Season of Giving: Tips for Diversity in Your End-of-Year Fundraising Appeal

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Symbols and language to make your appeal more Kwanzaa-inclusive: Candle-lighting is central to Kwanzaa, in the colors of red, green, and black. Include the color green, popular with many cultural traditions but especially to Muslims, for whom paradise is depicted as a garden. Bodhi Day: A Buddhist Tradition.

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Calling All Social Entrepreneurs: SAP and Ashoka Launch "Power of Small" Competition

Tech Soup

Have a brilliant idea for how to end homelessness, train job seekers , or help small businesses go green? Green business. Want to start your own nonprofit or socially responsible small business? Got talent; need money, technology, and mentorship? Poverty alleviation. Vulnerable populations.

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7 of the Best Giving Tuesday Campaigns We’ve Seen

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Chicago’s Green City Market Program. Chicago’s Green City Market Program kept it simple. They included links to volunteer as well, which empowered those who are passionate about helping the homeless get involved. The result was a huge success. What they did. Additionally, they remembered not everyone can give in dollars.

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7 Spring Fundraisers to Delight Your Donors

NonProfit Hub

All you need are some plastic eggs, candy to fill them with and an open green space—and don’t forget to acquire the proper permits if you’re holding it at a park! So, if your organization is a homeless shelter or a community organization that gives to families in need, take it off their hands! Spring Cleaning.

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