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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. Similar exchange systems were also established with the police department and local nonprofits that might refer youth to the shelter. state and the city to find out what we needed to do to become licensed. I looked up shelters all over the U.S.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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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? Do not reference or identify any person, entity or property in your submission unless you and/or your group have received that person’s/entity’s permission in writing.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Read the license. Another example.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. Kids learned about homelessness. The most reference word in the text responses from users is the word “today.” Moms were happy that kids were cleaning out their closets. It’s Monday.