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100 Fundraising Email Subject Lines That Will Get Donors to Open Your Email

Get Fully Funded

Breaking: Record number of homeless people need help in Atlanta . Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . Veterans at risk of homelessness. Creating a sense of urgency helps your donor’s brain prioritize your email as something that needs to be opened. Use give or help instead. .

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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. Or helpful? Homelessness and Mobile Technology. I'm not sure.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Your sponsors and partners will take notice which helps reinforce their commitment to your organization. Curated content relevant to your mission. 3) Monitor your LinkedIn Analytics. LinkedIn Profiles.

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Congrats Mark Horvath & Invisible People TV for Pepsi SXSW Challenge Win

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. He doesn't pitch.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Does these contests really help build capacity of nonprofits and bring innovative solutions for social to the forefront or not?

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Do’s and Don’ts for Your Next Email Fundraising Appeal

Connection Cafe

For example, you might ask for $25 to buy school supplies for one student (with the option to sponsor ten students for $250) or for $32 to pay for 20 hot meals for the homeless. DON’T Spam. Never send out unsolicited (spam) emails. You get the idea…. You’re only sending fundraising email out to your own list… right?

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

Museum 2.0

Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. Better to establish a relationship with a leader in their community--someone with whom you are building reciprocal value--and ask them to help be your ambassador. But those concerns are real.

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