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How Nonprofits Can Raise Money Using YouTube

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Hear this inspiring story of Bobbie, a homeless woman who was helped by the Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund to become more empowered and more hopeful. Slaying Childhood Cancer: Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. Slaying Childhood Cancer: Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. I get chills watching this simple video. ?.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. The call to action leads seamlessly from the emotional engagement that just took place. Hospice and homelessness can both be taboo subjects that can make people uncomfortable. “This place is like home. More than a number.”

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another option, is to sponsor a woman who wants to make a better life some place in the world. But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank?

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Another example is Goodwill, a nonprofit that sells merchandise to support its core function of finding jobs for hard-to-place individuals. It donates the products to impoverished people, preventing millions of hygiene-related deaths each year and encouraging vigorous childhood development (Clean the World, 2015).

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10 Organizations Leading The Way This Mental Health Awareness Month

Everyaction

Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. s homeless population. Their Integrated Care Center is a new model for delivering healthcare and wellness programs to low-income and homeless people.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. EP: Well, Mayor Newsom has already given Michael the green hat, from San Francisco Green, because he works with the project Homeless Connect people. We're tired of hearing people overcoming their horrible childhood, because it's too much.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. As the first woman, first Jamaican-American, and the first Indian-American attorney general in California, Harris secured her place in political history. Fund their work! Kamala Harris.

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