Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

9) Religious donors are more likely to give to charitable organizations that provide basic needs and support the causes of children and youth, health and wellness, and hunger and homelessness. Non-religious donors are more likely to give to the causes of animals and wildlife, human and civil rights, and international development and relief.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

More than 98% of all donations go directly to feeding programs for people facing hunger. Include specifics about the program that their donation funds. Working in the food and hunger field I asked Aaron what he thought about the field he works in, he said, “ I’m inspired and impressed with the food support networks that exist.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

While applying to grants can be time consuming, they offer plenty of benefits to nonprofits, such as more awareness for your organization and a positive reputation for the work you do on top of the financial benefits. Government grants are often more rigid in their grant requirements than other funding sources.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What will you accomplish with your GivingTuesday funds? Think of actionable steps and physical outcomes, such as reaching a benchmark on new construction or funding a specific program. This way, you don’t have to wait for phone carriers to deliver your funds, and you can receive your payouts right away. Events and Promotions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Send A Postcard from the Hunger site As we approach the annual Thanksgiving feast , there are more than 850 million people in the world who go hungry. In developing countries, nearly 11 million children die every year from preventable and treatable, with 60% of these deaths from hunger and malnutrition. Miss it and they???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

On Sunday, 13 May 2007, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and partners are teaming up to call for an end to child hunger. Fight Hunger: Walk the World??? to raise awareness and funds to assist the world's poorest children. Hundreds of thousands of people across the globe are expected to literally ???Fight

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES!

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

The three main people or groups you’ll request funding from include: Individuals. Individuals contribute a significant share of overall funding for most organizations. To ask for donations from a business, your nonprofit can reach out to form a partnership with the company and spread awareness of matching gift opportunities.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Employee Assistance Funds (EAFs) are philanthropic entities created and funded by a company to which employees in need can apply for cash relief. One way is by funding community development financial institutions (CDFI’s) that lend to and invest in minority and women-owned small businesses and other underserved local businesses.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A message like “Hunger knows no holiday” used consistently will motivate people to give to a food bank, especially after they see it a couple of times. GivingTuesday is a HUGE opportunity to raise awareness and money for your small nonprofit. The post 10 Year End Fundraising Mistakes to Avoid appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Organizations benefit from extra hands helping to drive mission fulfillment and greater awareness of their work; the families gain skills and valuable time together (not to mention the satisfaction of making a difference and connecting with others); and the community is strengthened through their contributions.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While this type of fundraiser requires time, effort, and some overhead costs to pull off, it is a great way to engage your employees and raise substantial funds for the organizations of your choice. Offer prizes for the most successful teams to incentivize participation and motivate your employees. For example, Darden Restaurants, Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This year, Blog Action Day’s focus is FOOD as it coincides with World Food Day that aims to increase awareness, understanding and fuel year-around action to alleviate hunger. The stats on world hunger are staggering: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, close to one billion people are chronically hungry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Loose ties or people you are connected with on social networks are good for spreading awareness and you need them as part of your campaign, but to raise dollars strong ties are essential. Taking the high road in partnerships always works. Working With Consultants. Test your assumptions. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. With Booster we can raise money and awareness with a t-shirt that our supporters are proud to wear.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

For others, it is a day of political significance to raise awareness around women's rights. The campaign is trying to raise awareness that, "Each year, around 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape, or other violence." The Global Fund for Women also has an online toolkit to help you host a house party. Host your own event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Check out Train for Humanity that weaves together getting fit, social media, and raising funds for charity. October is also breast cancer awareness month, so why not make a donation ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The wizard behind the Frozen Pea Fund (and many others since) is Connie Reece, who specializes in developing marketing and communications programs that use Web 2.0 Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes. Yes, the Frozen Pea Fund was mostly my doing, with the help of some great volunteers I recruited.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Your annual appeal is just one (very important) part of your annual campaign plan , but it’s a critical element in helping you secure the funding you need to run operations throughout the year. Every nonprofit approaches their fundraising appeal for the annual fund a little differently.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

You can even sell concessions like popcorn and drinks for extra funds and have them delivered to homes before the movie starts. With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. Social fundraisers. Memorial fundraisers.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a “living case study&# approach – doing an interview with them to share how they achieved their success. Museum of History and Industry ( MOHAI) uses social media to engage with Seattle residents whom they would not be able to connect with otherwise and have a say in how history is being interpreted.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2021

Unfortunately, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the progress towards accomplishing the SDGs, reversing years of improvement for Goal 1–no poverty, Goal 2–zero hunger, and Goal 3–good health and well-being, in particular. Read more about Purpose at PIMCO and their mission to combat global hunger specifically aligned with SDG 2.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2017

With year-end fundraising season fast approaching, it’s easy to fall into the trap of focusing solely on the one special project or initiative your organization would really like to fund. Let’s assume your organization’s mission is to address a really big problem — say eliminating hunger in the United States.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

I think there is now lots of evidence to suggest that American consumers are increasingly aware of the world's problems. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. We're aware of that. Climate change is on people's minds.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

Fortunately, soup kitchens don’t work alone in addressing hunger. Collectively, these organizations begin to address the complex issue of hunger. In summer 2011, we received funding from Microsoft to bring our groups together to answer at least one question: which nonprofits do our organizations serve separately, and collectively.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Back then, Dan was the chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee that led a 4,200 mile cross-country bike ride to fight hunger. Profit: Business can offer profits to attract investment capital and there’s an entire ecosystem around funding new ventures.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Names I've seen recently include Hunger Core, Partners for Change, Investigations Fund, and Rescue Partners. Build awareness by adding monthly giving language to all your email fundraising appeals, either in the body of the message and/or in the P.S., to show your donors that it's always an option for giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Here's how it works: Go to One Table , a Mercy Corps campaign to fight hunger by investing in women. Host an event to discuss the book and raise funds and awareness for Mercy Corps programs that help women around the world. Fill out the registration form for your book club. Read the book! Book Club Activists Unite!

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2017

Habitat’s Home is the Key campaign is determined to redirect the conversation by raising awareness of and support for affordable housing around the world. Through their 2017 Offering of Letters, their focus is on urging Congress to make funding decisions that put our country and the world on track to ending hunger by 2030.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It’s preached that in order to successfully raise funds you must truly know your supporters- your people. If you’re a fan of the trilogy, you’ll understand: 5 Important Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From The Hunger Games. People give to people. They give because they’ve formed a connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. As a basic service, TwitCause will find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it. The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

Example of Everyday influencer : Cynthia Mackey is an industrial engineer and tireless volunteer for STEM in schools and often uses her social media accounts with over 2,000 Twitter followers to help raise awareness. They emailed their advocates social media toolkits with drafted messages and images to help raise awareness about the campaign.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Although food insecurity is a global issue that receives billions of dollars in funding from governments and philanthropic organizations and regularly receives commitments from international institutions such as the United Nations, at the beginning of 2020 it was far from the minds of reporters and many Americans.

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