ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2017

Local pet rescue clinic” means “what is the best pet rescue clinic near me?”. Soup kitchen volunteer opportunity” means “I want to help local homeless in my community, what is a reputable organization I can help with?”. To help with your local SEO strategy you should set up a Google My Business account.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Conduct a peer-to-peer campaign with food trucks and other local vendors within your community. Leverage these amazing stories on your peer-to-peer campaign website to further inspire gifts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. Obviously, we can all picture a car. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is. Your organization has goals, too.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. BONUS – See this idea in action! In the last year, the St.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. Additionally, use pictures and lists to make your content more visually appealing and easier to read. 2) Technical Details Matter, Too. Your webmaster can help with this.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller. Diverse Goals.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

You are writing a compelling story about how you are helping change the world for the better. Paint a picture of your organizational structure so the reader can understand quickly what your nonprofit looks like from an operational point of view. Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work?

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Telling your story. Q: What is my story? What is a life changing story example for us? A: Telling your story is essential to good fundraising. When you can pull your donor into the story, do it. I promise you that you can find the sizzle in your story if you keep looking. Unit of service. A: Great question.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” And use the word “projected,” because we know that the service definitely impacted people in a positive way and we’re using local statistics to make sure that we’ve captured that impact. So quantitative data is really, you know, that ordered kind of big picture information. Does that make sense?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Analyze your own Giving Tuesday stories and successes to determine what’s best for your nonprofit. . Peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns are an excellent way to tell your nonprofit’s story (and to allow supporters to tell theirs! As you can see, there are countless ways to increase engagement and donations with a t-shirt fundraiser.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate. not a jet.

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Roles Resource Develop Video 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The campaign included creating nonprofit impact videos and stories based on issue areas, such as land use, violence, obesity, volunteerism, etc. The videos and stories would be shared by social media and multiple channels and would also be available on the DonorEdge site. Next use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people.

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Reflection Conference Learning Homeless 111

Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? They understand how their individual work fits into a larger picture. I can't wait to hear a story like this at a conference and fall in love with data all over again. Check the census.

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Achieve

APRIL 22, 2015

I worked for an organization whose mission was to break the cycle of homelessness in our community, and we were laser-focused on helping our clients lead independent lives free from any public support. This is tough to accomplish, because the causes of homelessness are complex as well as unique to each individual. That’s it.

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Philanthropy Charity Homeless Statistics 52

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

And, instead of limiting your events just to those in the local area or to those who have the means to travel, you can actually open them to anyone on the internet! Want to see this in action, check out the Brandywine Valley SPCA Picture Pawfect Pet Photo Contest ! They can then vote for their favorite by donating.

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And we’re going to see what kind of shortfalls there are from a state and local perspective in the coming years because of COVID, but hoping that some of the other federal funds that we’re receiving through ARPA can try to help stop the bleeding a little bit. And as I said, these are not necessarily all federal.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 115

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker. We will have maps telling the stories of our impact for us (for examples of this already in use, check out google earth’s nonprofit stories). The community still led the way, though, from the local to the global level. Holistic Tools.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Reach your visual donors with infographics that combine pictures and data. Examples include: “We’ve cut pet homelessness in half this year!” Simply divide your story into beginning, middle and end, and send a different part each week. Create Themed Infographics. Increase Campaign “Sharability”. Ask for Help.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

There's the "program" side that wants to tell you all the amazing ways your programs help save homeless pets, feed the hungry, find cures, protect our children, or empower women. Covenant House is the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing food, shelter, crisis care, and essential services to homeless and at-risk kids.

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Action Story Award Homeless 94

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The Engage Network was founded when Julia Butterfly Hill had a major motion picture coming out about her, and we saw what had happened with An Inconvenient Truth. So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." You can see if there is a local group in your area.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’m going to use the example of a rescue mission because I think that just kind of paints a picture of what we’re trying to say here. So you want to make sure that you’re doing that, that you’re really focusing on those lives changed by your organization with a powerful and compelling story. Is this too much?”

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Connection Cafe

JULY 16, 2019

But you could take a cue from local news promos. They need a story, even a little one. Stories are the most effective way to communicate ideas and prompt action. Stories are how we, as a species, have learned about the world from our beginning. Why are stories so persuasive? We enter a story. Unexpected.

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Web Effective Homeless Audience 27

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Her personal story is chronicled in the memoir, Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. You get her picture. Literally, the safe haven for women is the only space where they can go, and learn, and share their stories. That's the story of Women for Women. You get her letters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

Last year, I connected with Stephanie Rudat over a year ago when we were both named on a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following. (It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Share stories of those you know on the ground. Stephanie is the founder of the Alliance of Youth Movements.

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Egypt Offline Demonstration Homeless 104

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

When Sophia contacted me and asked if I would talk here, my first thought was, "You know, I could talk here, but I just know so many amazing women who have stories that I want to share." So when I was asked to do this panel and learned what this conference was about, I thought, "Well, I should have them come and tell their stories to you."

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