Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

The goal is to find alignment between the values you enact and the values the corporation espouses and shares. At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters. This comes from the “tin cup” model of fundraising, where we come from a place of begging.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Their goal is to provide quality resources that will help combat mental health issues that plague their profession. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. How To Support Laughs for the Troops. Learn more about Laughs for the Troops. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Covington, GA. How To Support Next Rung.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: The mission of Crossroads for Women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children. Their goal is to cultivate strong, contributing members of their community. Host a supply drive.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

1 goal – get the career center off the ground! . You know you won’t be able to fit all this into a fundraising email, but the goal is to write everything down so you can make good choices about what to include. . It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. New business partnerships.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Emma Visman. Nicolas Umuhizi.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? Studies show that fundraisers with specific goal amounts are more successful than open-ended fundraisers. Use ADJECTIVES! Then, Educate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. My personal goal of #domoregood requires accelerants and challenges to the status quo. Lead Associate, Food Security, Save the Children.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

As a fundraiser, you regularly set big, hairy, audacious goals, whether running a billion-dollar campaign or building a new hospital campus. Meanwhile, your colleague is exploring ways to end homelessness in your city or tackle the opioid crisis. It doesn’t get much more purposefully bold.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

Malnourished children enduring intense suffering will finally get relief”- I clearly understood the impact of those thousands of gifts. But so many more starving children need help” – The attention quickly shifted back to the urgent need. While the theme remained the same – sponsor a homeless animal – the options changed.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Act two is the part of the story where we witness the goals and struggles of the character. Step 3: Communicate the conflict, goals, and successes. It is also crucial to communicate the goals, hopes, and aspirations of your character and your organization. Act Two – Confrontation . This is where the rising action occurs.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. After you decide on your goal, think about the specific questions you want to ask. Many will say their children are their proudest accomplishment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

He started it because on a cold December day, he passed a homeless person on the street asking for money. The goal is to spend Valentine’s Day being more generous, giving more money, sharing of yourself, being of service. He provides some specific examples: Give money to….a

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Not only is it an engaging donor experience, but peer-to-peer fundraising is often the push you need to reach essential fundraising goals. Determine a goal, 2. For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Recruit volunteers, 3. Provide resources, 4.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. I was amazed not only by her energy and intelligence but by her simple, transformative goal: to end homelessness. They have different goals they are shooting for. We're in the business of finding a solution to this problem.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. Without education, Dalit children continue in the same generational work as their parents, which is generally street sweepers, leather workers, garbage workers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We champion a historic house museum for hosting a soup kitchen, a children''s museum for tackling family wellness in low-income housing, or an arts organization for writing poems with convicts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2016

That's because these aren't just children's nursery rhymes; they're sticky stories, or stories that stick with you for decades. When we were children, we all knew how important stories were. Imagine a story being told to children around a campfire. Now swap out the children with adults.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Pogo Park is transforming three neglected parks in Richmond California into magical play spaces for 8,000 at-risk children. GLIDE is a faith-based homeless services program in San Francisco that supplies hot meals, violence prevention, and education services in one of worst neighborhoods.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! To that end, siloed brands are replaced by unifying goals that rally more than select individuals but entire communities. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. Many describe homelessness as being voiceless and invisible. We have all seen huge programs with complicated processes to end homelessness.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Yes, we’re making a difference against colorectal cancer, and that’s ultimately our big-picture goal. Each year, by the end of the retreat we’ve come away with very clear ideas of what has to be done to help us move forward in our mission, and each year we’ve managed to accomplish the goal we set.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Assume this e-mail is being sent by the following organization: A homeless shelter in a major US city that serves 1,000s of people per year. Dear Joe: Thanks to you 2,349 men, women and children had a warm place to stay and a hot meal to eat this year. She lived with her children at our shelter for 7 weeks.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Definitely keep it on brand for your nonprofit, but your goal is to make them feel warm inside. If you work with children, a child’s drawing is an obvious choice. We loved getting texts from parents letting us know how proud their children were to return to school in brand new shoes. Be sure to tag them all!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2014

Back in September when I stood beside more than 40 committed Allies who had a variety of values, backgrounds, beliefs, and goals, but all taking the same oath I realized this was the real deal. This event also provided a workshop for parents about Be a Leader’s resources to help their children go on to college.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Our goal is to make the transformative power of mobile access just as common as the sparrow. With donated Sparrow mobile devices, children in Kenya are learning to read, girls across the U.S. We wanted a shorter, inclusive name that captures the spirit of our vision of Mobile for All. It's everywhere.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. This will help you gain clarity of mission.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. Caravan staff members were shocked by how many children are not accessing free summer meals — and realized they could do something about it. How Range Works.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Younger children or those looking for a slightly less messy way to join in on the fun will enjoy using paints, paintbrushes, glue, glitter, and other craft supplies for non-carving decoration method. Setting goals with some sort of reward for their donors is another way to get people engaged. Haunted Hike.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

The goal was to explore new ways to measure "immeasurable" social outcomes like connectedness, pride, and civic action. The San Lorenzo Levee group used movement of homeless people as an indicator of social disruption. I encourage you to explore all the projects and see what insights might connect to your own work and research goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Having met his goal, he’s doing it again for his twelfth birthday. Make sure you’re involved from the beginning to guide them as they establish the parameters and goals of their project. Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Encourage them to set reading goals and reach out to their friends and family to collect pledges for when they meet their goals. Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. John Center for Homeless Men.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people. There's YouTube video here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

Businesspeople asked how we would keep out homeless people, drug addicts, and deviant behavior. Some people were downright incredulous that we could achieve our goals for a creative community plaza in downtown. A plaza rooted solely in creative practice was not going to achieve our community goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

Instead of raising for funds during an event, the purpose of A Gift for Teaching’s peer-to-peer campaign is to ask their supporters to conduct their own DIY fundraisers in order to supply children with the supplies they need to succeed in school. Queen Louise Home for Children’s Week of Giving. Why we love this event.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2020

While I may not possess the intellectual wherewithal to solve homelessness, food insecurity or a host of other chronic societal problems, I have great faith that someone out there will have that ability. I am deeply blessed to come to work every day believing, at a deep level, that I am contributing to the lives of others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December. It's your choice.

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