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Facebook Ad Strategy for Non-Profits & Charities: 9 Things to Understand and Test

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example: in a lead campaign for a homeless charity, a photo of two empty beds performed much, much better than an emotive photograph of a man living in homelessness. . But if you start by testing more images, and more that are significantly different, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results. . It needs time to do this.

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The Five Building Blocks of a Digital Advocacy Campaign, Part 1: Tell an Impactful Story

Media Cause

We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, what their values are, and what are their anxieties or concerns. . And they certainly don’t want problems that seem insurmountable like sexual violence or homelessness.

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Major Code Release

VisionLink

This new code also includes the completely rebuilt Homeless Management solution (phase one of two), a new outcomes tracking module, a newly enhanced volunteer module for the Coordinated Assistance Network (CAN), new client assistance tools for the Red Cross and CAN, and a number of features for 2-1-1 users across the United States.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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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. The best part was that we won $25,000 and more if we do well in the second phase of the contest (up to $1 million!).

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. These ideas are just the beginning.

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