Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Perhaps there is a large homeless population that could use support, or an uptick in stray, unneutered cats in your area. Be sure to consider the root causes, scope, and severity of the problem and how you think your nonprofit will solve it. Define the demographic characteristics of who is most affected by the identified issues.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. 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. Why Climate Justice?

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2023

This reiterates the notion that those who are closest to the problem (lack of diversity) are also closest to the solution! On the other hand, sharing access to resources (and power) benefits all of us. As a result, no one, not even white residents, was able to swim. Individuals with disabilities? Transgender? Non-Binary? Young and old?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Identify the organizations in your community (if any) that are already working to solve this issue. You may also consider offering micro-volunteer opportunities (typically between 1-2 hours) or virtual volunteer opportunities for volunteers with busy schedules, mobility issues, or transportation restrictions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Walden House was founded in the Haight-Ashbury district, just two years later, in 1969 and focused on helping runaway youth and the homeless with substance abuse problems. Payments were being applied incorrectly, [requiring] hunting down and solving issues with various providers, it was a huge hassle.” No upsells.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

No problem. Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. Aside from this subject line being BORING, you are also intimidating your members to shoulder a very big issue – that they alone are responsible for saving all dogs. Short, Catchy Subject Lines. What’s Wrong with it?

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Money Raise Online Tips 68

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We forget that we have social and economic issues that are massive in scale: 12% of the US population is homeless. 780 million people don’t have access to clean water. We forget that we have social and economic issues that are massive in scale: 12% of the US population is homeless.

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Internet Time Social Philanthropy 55

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For more, read a deep dive into each of the six episode focuses: nutrition insecurity, health equity, workforce development, homelessness, mental health, and climate action. If access to nutritious food is required for optimal growth and development, how do we safeguard our childrens’ future by addressing hidden hunger in our communities?

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Podcast Global Hunger Homeless 110

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Send save-the-date reminders and early access to your donation form beforehand, and on the day of, send your main donation appeal. You can solve this problem by choosing a more sustainable Giving Tuesday campaign idea—a recurring giving campaign. Make sure you test it in advance and troubleshoot any issues.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But I was constantly faced with technical glitches, particularly with Internet access. No problem. Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. Full of copyright issues. What did I do? Interactive.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube. That obscure problem you're trying to solve?

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. Not only are the issues multifaceted and overlapping, but they can also change based on location.

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Participatory Trend Community Grant 74

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

We developed negotiation training to develop the capacity of the women to be able to ask for better working conditions, better wages, which is something that the women said they that had no understanding of, no access to those levels of skills. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

Sadly, this portrayal of poverty, homelessness, and frustration while seeking help is an honest one. For example, locating a bed for one night is a win, but it doesn’t address the mental health, income, and educational needs of the individual experiencing homelessness. More than one in six poor Americans have no Internet access.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

We don’t try to solve a single problem. Said details how the system could improve data accessibility: Collaboration will also ensure that records are more comprehensive. Said adds that, “Issues around governance are still to be thrashed out.” We try to engage the ecosystem holistically and together.

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San Francisco Collaboration Service System 52

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

The government run “Remand Houses” are shelters for homeless youth who are runaways, orphans, facing domestic violence at home, or too young to go to jail for a crime. Rajen has refurbished some basic computers and provided curriculum for basic computer training on word processing (no Internet access yet).

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India Social Homeless 124

Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Technology Solutions for Health Problems? The health experts and developers had one day to explore the scope of the problem and develop a technological solution. The problem the group faced was to provide youth and young adults with access to sexual and mental health and social service information.

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Hosting Proposal Teen Conference 60

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And in terms of the nonprofit sector, again, there was a report that was issued last year, excuse me, about how the nonprofit sector is being prepared and how sort of the outlook. So they provide emergency and longer-term, permanent supportive housing to individuals who are experiencing homelessness. Steven: Yeah, right. Steven: Right.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A lot of organizations are tempted to create new programs just to get grant funding on a hot issue, right? I will say that it is not a problem whatsoever to find funding opportunities through multiple channels, organically through hearing about something, somebody emailing you an opportunity, etc. All of that is pretty common.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 76

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

If you’re attending in-person, you’ll have access to a workshop on April 7th where you can better your nonprofit organization through hands-on learning. On April 8th, online registrants will have access to six presentations in real-time, with the rest being posted online following the conference. and streamed online.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you have to leave early, no problem. And so board members found out, “You know what, if I didn’t come to this youth, I wouldn’t have anybody to help me with my homework, or I wouldn’t have access to technology, or I wouldn’t have a meal, you know, because my mom works all the time.

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Roles Resource Develop Video 121

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Why do homeless people smell bad?” cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. and displayed in the museum. Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not?

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