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Study offers lessons on public health efforts to prevent gun violence

Candid

When individuals do feel safe in their neighborhoods, they are more likely to trust public systems and access needed services, engage and advocate on behalf of their communities, and pursue life and career goals. Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons From Atlanta And Milwaukee." Annie E.

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Normalizing seeking support for mental health takes collective action

Candid

Reprinted from The Atlanta Women’s Foundation. Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. United Way of Greater Atlanta. The Atlanta Women’s Foundation (AWF) also funds organizations that support mental wellness for girls and women. The United States is ready for a mass mental health intervention. 11,331,603. 11,200,000.

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3 Ways to Increase Engagement with Gamification

Volunteer Hub

One example of an organization using gamification to create value for volunteers is Open Hand Atlanta. Open Hand Atalanta uses a point system (LeaderTree program) to provide volunteers with prizes in exchange for their time. To date, Open Hand Atlanta has saved over $649,000 since initiating its gamification-based rewards program.

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4 Time-Saving Benefits of a CRM Integration for Nonprofits

Saleforce Nonprofit

Discover how HOPE Atlanta , Metro Atlanta’s most established agency committed to fighting homelessness and hunger, capitalized on this integration to optimize their data collection , and explore how your organization can do the same to maximize fundraising potential. Hannah Durbin. Content Specialist at Classy.org. .

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10 Support, Implementation, and Adoption Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

Volunteer Hub

It is pretty clear that the VolunteerHub team is listening to the voice of their clients,” said David Thoms, Volunteer Coordinator for Open Hand Atlanta. “I The monthly updates are also essential to learning new “tricks of the system”. “We really love Admin 2.0

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How to Manage Volunteers Effectively in 2021

Volunteer Hub

Your nonprofit should provide supporters with a streamlined, efficient, transparent, and easy to complete online registration system that allows volunteers to quickly identify opportunities of interest. Here are a few case studies of organizations effectively managing volunteers: Open Hand Atlanta. Tampa Bay Lightning.

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It's Not Data if You Can't Use It: Case Studies from Modernizing Nonprofit Systems

NTEN

Another is an emergency assistance center in central Atlanta. Prior to the project, two of the three nonprofits had paper-based systems – not because they loved what they had, but because they looked at alternatives and found them all out of their price range. This might sound like a "no-brainer". Real data was being collected. #3