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Grants for Homeless Shelters: Where and How to Apply

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Homelessness is a significant problem in the United States. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ 2021 State of Homelessness report , there were 580,466 people in the United States who were experiencing homelessness in 2020, 30% of which were families with children. Private foundations.

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Resources to Help Those Impacted By Hurricane Ian

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Brevard Homeless Coalition The lead agency for the Continuum of Care and management of homelessness in Brevard County. earntolearnfl.org Friends of Foster Children Forever Providing foster children in Southwest Florida with targeted educational and enrichment opportunities to allow each child to fulfill his/her potential.

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. This figure encompasses contributions of £5 million ($6 million) from the UK government and the British royal family; and the Turkish Philanthropy Funds (TPF), which raised $11.2 The disaster also displaced over 1.9

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Why your nonprofit must invest in outcome measurement and a culture of innovation

ASU Lodestar Center

Services that were once provided primarily by the government have slowly shifted to the nonprofit sector to reduce government spending. One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

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. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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How Tech is Enabling Thousands of In-Home Vaccinations for Massachusetts’ Most Vulnerable

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since the beginning of the pandemic, our team has worked closely with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to care for these individuals, including COVID-19-positive homeless and marginally housed residents of Massachusetts at the Isolation and Recovery sites. To address transportation needs, we expanded our transportation reimbursement program.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

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Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. Related Links: Social and Mobile Media Webinars for Nonprofits and Government. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV.

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