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Spotlighting Mental Health in the Nonprofit Sector

Saleforce Nonprofit

We saw hunger, homelessness, broken healthcare systems, exhausted teachers, and mental health issues explode in front of our eyes — and we felt it all. In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010. . It still isn’t true. Good, bad, and ugly. And in many cases, we were spurred into action. billion.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

As the issues became more public and more people started looking for others and taking action, it was necessary for an organization to form that could provide some of the infrastructure and administration of the community and it’s work. A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. But, the organization remained community driven.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process). telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Raising funds.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al., However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. Banks were not lending.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Executive Compensation"

ASU Lodestar Center

For nonprofits in Maricopa and Pima counties, the latest issue of Nonprofit Research Abridged details CEO compensation across budget size and type. What are your thoughts on this issue? Or, "Please give this family a place to stay for the night; and why dont you see if you can eliminate homelessness in the meantime?"

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

Achieve

From her perspective, whether you are in Asia or Africa, the issues there affect her as much as the issues in Detroit, where she lives. One of Mallory’s first campaigns was for a family in Haiti that suffered greatly during the devastating earthquake of 2010. Embedded in the model of World Clothes Line is Mallory’s global view.

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