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

DipJar

In partnership with the city’s schools, Food Bank manages Campus Pantries at 67 schools across the five boroughs, which serve nighttime and weekend food items and other essentials to students and their families. Summer Hunger , a fundraising effort to raise awareness about childhood hunger during the summer months.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

First, let’s settle on an example we can use to walk through all 5 steps: you work for a small nonprofit that focuses on early childhood education, so you have lots of services for parents and partnerships with hospitals, child care facilities, and doctors offices. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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Sharing the Love: 5 Tips for Gathering New Email Addresses and Donors with Valentines

Connection Cafe

Tip 1: Highlight a Treasured Childhood Memory. Each student and often the teachers would buy or make a valentine for every student in the class. As much as people want a deeper connection with our patients, many don’t have the time to visit the hospital with toys to drop off or commit to volunteering regularly.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. Set up computers and have volunteers ask people to donate on the spot. What were your results? per person.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

To recreate childhood photographs. I'd love to find a grad student or two who are interested in creating some interesting research around this project, and of course, I'll be blogging about it. We will be looking for interns and volunteers who want to help facilitate the space throughout the winter--please contact me if interested.

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Major Gifts: 16 Strategies to Raise More

Neon CRM

Say your donor is very interested in early childhood education. to give private tutoring to elementary school students is much better. Instead, you should be providing other engagement opportunities such as volunteering experiences, event invites, and involvement in special projects. Asking them for $7,000 is one thing.

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