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Food Bank For New York City: Working to End Hunger since 1983

DipJar

It’s always encouraging to hear how food banks, like Food Bank For New York City , provide support and sustenance for the populations they serve – and in the case of New York City, that population is large indeed, with an estimated 1.6 million New Yorkers currently facing food insecurity.

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Customer Experience Lifts Service to the Stratosphere

.orgSource

These comments from McDonald’s CEO, Chris Kempczinski to New York Times journalist David Gelles describing how the pandemic would change the company’s business resonated with me on a couple of levels. “We

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6 Must-Read Climate Fiction Novels for Our Changing World

Saleforce Nonprofit

Climate change is everywhere in the news, and usually not because of positive developments. Well, I have good news: You can do both! Climate change? Climate change — and climate action — are undoubtedly the defining issues of this decade. New York 2140. New York 2140. Sign me up.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once. Making the climate connection Even a decade ago, you might have been able to compartmentalize natural disaster relief as separate from the effects of climate change. Thinking big on climate change There is good news.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

It outlines 10 core principles for philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs) to enhance their impact and contribute to broader systems change. It also examines the findings from its comprehensive assessment of New York City’s nonprofits’ leadership demographics. Do you know of a resource Candid’s Issue Lab is missing?

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Changing our vision of Change: Revisiting the Pollyanna Principles

Amy Sample Ward

Last week, the New York Times ran an article exploring a segment of the nonprofit/social impact sector that the author saw as a small minority of organizations, but one I care deeply about: those that plan to go out of business. I know there are so many organizations, campaigns, and community groups making real change now.

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Two years later: how our fundraising strategy changed overnight 

Candid

With that approach emerging as our new strategy-in-progress, Dawn logged in to Candid’s Foundation Directory to find these funders. Fueled by passion for our mission, she made lists of the most likely supporters and then got to work, sending out 300 letters of intent (LOIs) to potential funders in New York with an interest in horses.

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