Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the subject line (which is critical in getting the email opened). Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . These jobs can be accessed via public transportation. We cannot thank you enough.” .

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 13, 2019

Recognizing that good health depends more on an individual’s access to housing, good nutrition, education, and a safe neighborhood than on their medical care, Kaiser Permanente is rolling out Thrive Local , a digital care coordination platform that makes it easier for its medical providers to connect patients to community-based social services.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. For example, perhaps your nonprofit’s mission is to refurbish local community parks.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Virtual open mic night. Silent disco.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

While diverse in their missions, these projects all have the common threads of inclusivity, support, and access. One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. Liberating Ourselves Locally. Trans*H4ck. Want to attend the next summits?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta). Oh, and jet-packs.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, an organization that supports homeless families could have an Advisory Board made up of formerly and current homeless people. Connecting the organization with their company’s foundation or community relations program, which often cannot be accessed without a person. Sponsor a table at the organization’s event.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

Not only have the people working on the project been building up their list of locations with free Wi-Fi access, but they've also started to focus on marketing and outreach for the service. LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. A Simple Digital Inclusion Tool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Jennifer Anderson. Karen Uffelman.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

that] allows local affiliates to innovate solutions to poverty. Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. Many describe homelessness as being voiceless and invisible. I learn new and wonderful things every day!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2013

After a successful summer, I was asked to stay and help open an emergency youth shelter as the Emergency Youth Shelter Coordinator. For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. The next big challenge was researching how to open an emergency youth shelter. Apply for Public Allies Arizona today!

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

Paddock suggests that communicating with them can open the door for networking, and having future questions and needs answered. Communication builds relationship, helps manage expectations and guides the volunteer; while being open leads to new ideas and new connections in the community. Conclusion.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Follow these five tips and you will be on your way to increasing open and click-through rates and more importantly - raising more money for your nonprofit. Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. This is a good subject line because it’s focused, local, timely, and a bit emotional.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

Traditionally, food pantries have existed to provide food resources to those in need, but there are often barriers to entry — pantries are only open at specific times, there can be accessibility issues, or the stigma of going keeps the proudest families away. Boulder Food Rescue exists to fill these gaps.

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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. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. BlueGreen Alliance.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Challenge submission opens July 1, 2014 at 8:00:01 a.m. Poke around the map and see for yourself.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. Assuredly they are. Surprises So Far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. None of the bridges on or off Long Island were open. Crowdsourcing also provided information on gas stations that were still open (and where lines were actually moving). The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

To make sure school supplies aren’t out of reach for any student, they created the Free Teacher Market to help “Erase the Need” for local students. They also made sure donating was accessible by accepting both monetary and in-kind donations, ensuring that businesses and other groups have more ways to help. Text m essage marketing.

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Education Virtual Fundraising Guide 52

Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Schedule local events in advance along your road trip route. Pitch Press - Try to drum up press coverage from local outlets along your route. Connecting and enriching a national movement. Over to You.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Close the door!

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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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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

For example, the Executive Summary might have a very different focus if you are trying to recruit an expert in your service sector to the Board versus applying for a small business loan to open a gift shop. For example, if you run a homeless shelter, you should mention the number of people who are homeless on any given night in your area.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It required that we built and scaled systems quickly so that diverse stakeholders and partners, including donors and volunteers, community based organization partners, and restaurants, had accessible and transparent access to the information they needed. Supporting Small Businesses And Workforce Development.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

While both L3Cs and B Corps can be used to support emerging social entrepreneurs, each fails to address challenges addressed by the other; namely, L3Cs do not offer the transparency and legal protections of B Corps, while B Corps will not receive the broad capital-market access enjoyed by L3Cs. Banks were not lending. Clean the World, 2015).

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

Local SEO If you’re a nonprofit with a physical location or a charity that provides services in a specific area, you should consider focusing on local SEO to target people in your region. Start by creating a Google Business Profile to show your business on Google Maps and local searches.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The homeless community? The Brooklyn Museum allows skateboarders to use their public outdoor space, much to the chagrin of some locals. Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals. Be open at times that your "community" is likely to come. And none of the museums in the park was open. Which community?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.” Not everything has been worked out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A 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. Growing and Eating Local Foods. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Adding a new data point to it.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

Part of your job as the nonprofit is to make the sponsorship look enticing to sponsors by offering them promotions and marketing, access to the attendees of your event, or other benefits. Here are some of our favorite options: Local businesses: being in the same area as a business is a great starting point to pitch a sponsorship.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So when you think about impact, think about the fact that people don’t want to just support your existence just because, you know, keep those doors open, keep the lights on. But there’s Salesforce, there’s SureImpact, there’s Microsoft Access, KaleidaCare, Sumac, all kinds of different ways to track data.

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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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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! You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Not only were we open to trying and learning, the social paradigm also included the emergence of toolkits – resources organizations created either to support community members taking on our mission and our work, or in the form of documentation for other organizations looking to replicate our efforts. Holistic Tactics.

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