Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 15: World Art Day — #WorldArtDay. 17: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD19. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 22: Earth Day — #EarthDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 15: World Art Day — #WorldArtDay. 18: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD18. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 22: Earth Day — #EarthDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

BFAS runs the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States and works nationwide to create a time of No More Homeless Pets. The Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. Meanwhile, arts industry leaders worry about " oversupply " of organizations in the face of dwindling demand. Arts organizations can operate on their own timelines and internal values.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Americans for the Arts :: @ Americans4Arts. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. American Heart Association :: @ American_Heart. American Red Cross :: @ RedCross. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

Despite her lack of comfort using online tools, she was interested in anything that her children were involved with, even if it wasn’t her cup of tea. She took selfies with me and I taught her how she could use my phone to look at her children and grandchildren’s Facebook profiles. She was also an arts lover.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. For example: “Please give today, because children are waiting for help learning to read” shows WHY they should give today. Ok, see the difference in a good Ask and a bad one?

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

Which means you need to master the art of the follow-up email. Malnourished children enduring intense suffering will finally get relief”- I clearly understood the impact of those thousands of gifts. But so many more starving children need help” – The attention quickly shifted back to the urgent need. So may your second.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

Children and Family Services Programs – $1.9 Runaway and Homeless Youth – $25 Million. National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities – $75 Million each. Veterans Administration Homelessness Assistance Grants – $4 Billion. Child Care Development Block Grant – $3.5 National Domestic Violence Hotline – $2 Million.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In addition, they offer case management for homeless clients in the Interfaith Home Emergency Lodging Program (I-HELP). In 2017, AZCEND provided Christmas gifts for over 480 children. Before “shopping day,” which is where the families come and pick out gifts for their children, AXCEND hosts a community Christmas party.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Pogo Park is transforming three neglected parks in Richmond California into magical play spaces for 8,000 at-risk children. GLIDE is a faith-based homeless services program in San Francisco that supplies hot meals, violence prevention, and education services in one of worst neighborhoods.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. I was amazed not only by her energy and intelligence but by her simple, transformative goal: to end homelessness. Monica is trying to reposition her organization as a social justice organization working on solutions to end homelessness.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. The San Lorenzo Levee group used movement of homeless people as an indicator of social disruption. It strengthens your community.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Hospice and homelessness can both be taboo subjects that can make people uncomfortable. Dewey’s wife and the mother of his two children was killed in a car accident when the kids were just 11 and 12. His children visited as they could while Dewey lived at the Abbie Hunt Bryce Home. The two formed a special bond.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

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. It also provides access to primary medical care, optometry and dermatology care, haircuts, art therapy, and recovery services. I learn new and wonderful things every day!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Create an online exhibition to showcase impressive art pieces your burgeoning young artists have created. John Center for Homeless Men. Virtual college + career prep workshop. Holiday e-card campaign.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Businesspeople asked how we would keep out homeless people, drug addicts, and deviant behavior. What amenities does it need?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Now, we’re getting into the art of thanking donors. If you work with children, a child’s drawing is an obvious choice. Say something like “ Today, in this season of giving, we are extending a special thanks to our donors who give regularly to our organization, stepping up time and time again for homeless families.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some wisdom from DC Nonprofits: JoesMovement : Joe’s Movement Emporium is the community performing arts center of World Arts Focus, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was launched in 1992. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center? It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. We paint “nonprofits” in broad strokes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You can see here that Miriam’s House uses the donor based brandscript to center the supporter as the hero by saying “you can help end the cycle of homelessness.” You can see how they shared his story of going to rescue more children in the small text beneath the heading which makes him the hero of the narrative.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids. She grew her program so it now serves 700 people of varying abilities and allows them to express themselves through the art. She lives for what she does and adds meaning to many individuals lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 16, 2006

Last month I wrote a post, Cocktails and School Supplies , about a fundraising event in Los Angeles that our friend Meg produced to collect money and school supplies for a school Covenant House (a shelter that houses homeless and runaway youth) is opening in Tijuana. Her event raised over $2,000!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Americans for the Arts. Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. Communities in Schools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Americans for the Arts. Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Because 700,000+ American children need advocates in our judicial system each year. Communities in Schools.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children. If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @clarkfork ) 10. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Stories abound of nonprofits being offered condemned property, obscure collectibles with no known market, and valuable art that requires special care just to handle and store prior to selling. What if the Board declines a gift from a corporation because its policies are deemed harmful to the homeless families you serve?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children''s job prospects as adults. blog posts from the past.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Encourage them to show off their latest creations with a fundraiser art show!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. Countdown for our children. Your gift today helps twice as many children. Where my love of art began. Thinking big.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Children’s Health. Different fonts and art styles appeal to different audiences. For example, you could also explain goals such as building a new homeless shelter by pulling statistics about how long the process will take or how much funding per day would be necessary to cover the length of the project. Donor Walls.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Save the Children. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Top Nonprofit Website: Save the Children US.

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