Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Each participant uses a private Chatter group in a secure Salesforce community to capture highlights of them being good at something using video, audio, photos, and text (shout out here to the Appinium team and their awesome products for native media handling and sharing). Numbers Only Tell Half a Story.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There is no shortage of highly talented leaders coming from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and many of them lead from within the nonprofit sector. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nonprofits do critical work in their communities and around the world and, in so doing, build the awareness of their brands to scale their impact. Instead, what a nonprofit can do is to position its content and messaging as the celebrant of its stakeholder community, rather than its celebrity.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Give back to the Denver community by assembling hygiene and health kits, which will be donated to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Brown, PKF O’Connor Davies and customers from Headwaters Foundation for Justice and Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation. You can participate on Monday and Tuesday in the Expo Hall.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. What other organizations in your community address this need? Fully explore the landscape in your community and figure out where your organization will fit in.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Even so, it’s possible that you’ve noticed a need in your community for something that could be helped through charitable efforts, and now you’re inspired to start your own nonprofit. Their goals are often focused on helping others in need and bettering their community. What does your community have to say?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2022

In our examination, we can’t help but recognize that we are, in fact, one global community of people, dependent on each other not only for survival, but that we need each other to thrive. We all know that that wasn’t true, however, for many of our community members and for those around the globe. It still isn’t true. A global trauma.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

When you think about an inkind gift, you may think of stuff, such as bottled water and packaged snacks for events or hotel-sized shampoo and conditioner for a shelter serving homeless families. For example, a homeless shelter in my area was given a piece of property in a prestigious community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. These nonprofits fill important niches in communities, often maintain close relationships with their beneficiaries, and serve as incubators for innovative ideas.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Image courtesy of Etiquette Consulting Inc. Handing out food to the homeless for a day or attending the completion celebration for a water purification system at a small village overseas can impact a generous donor in a meaningful way that other charities they may contribute to do not.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

But did you know that when Allyson isn't running her consulting firm Rad Campaign , or writing and editing Frogloop, or running popular conferences, she writes books? It's called " Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to Implement Online Multichannel Strategies to Spark Advocacy, Raise Money and Engage Your Community.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2012

Allowing your volunteers to be able to find other volunteers through your online directory, post messages about their upcoming events, blog about their experiences, and share pictures within your community site, empowers them to be more committed to the cause and yields higher fundraising for your foundation!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2019

The New Life Center (NLC), led by Rob Swiers, provides support and shelter for those afflicted with addiction and homelessness. The shop receives community donations that are sold in the thrift shop, creating a regular stream of income for the charity. In order to grow he needed to provide a regular stream of unrestricted income.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2011

Though not universal, it's true that people continue to volunteer and contribute money in support of organizations doing good work in our communities. Data about giving suggests otherwise. , we also have individual concerns that are more outwardly-focused (Why are there so many homeless people on the street these days?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Apps for Donors, Not Communities Served. " Organizations like Applications for Good and Code for America are engaging developers to build mobile tools with the needs of local communities in mind. Numerous community-specific mobile hackathons and competitions have also been rolled out in recent years.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

She has inspired an entire community to partner with more than 184 families who now own their own homes. "Habitat has enriched my life in countless ways, and offered me the opportunity to be a part of a community of people who believe in and act on creating tangible change every day. Here's what she says about this work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2013

This guest post was written by Jonathan Howell, who is the principal consultant for financial solutions at Blackbaud. Too often, however, nonprofits focus only on getting gifts "in the door," and don’t pay enough attention to how those gifts are actually put to use in the community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

As income disparity continues to grow , many nonprofits are struggling to meet overwhelming community need amid the stark realities of funding cuts. In isolation, the cuts may seem small,” says Stapel, “but over time, they speak to a larger, more serious trend that will have an impact on the health, happiness, and safety of our communities.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations. The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Whenever I find myself with a few hours of free time, I like to consult nonprofit professionals to help make their organizations more robust and self-sufficient. For example, a foundation might only be willing to consider nonprofits that engage in youth education, or workforce development, or homelessness eradication.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Review the mission statement - cure cancer, end homelessness, provide affordable housing for working families - whatever it is, ask yourself if the programs from last year helped the organization reach its goals. Networking in the community. What will you do differently this year? From WHY comes strategic planning and goal setting.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, if you are taking a volunteer for your homeless shelter that offers overnight accommodations and food service, you want to familiarize that person with the food service program, since that’s where they will be serving. This builds your reputation in the community and may even get new people to volunteer.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2017

posted by Chris Giarratana Digital Strategy Consultant. Soup kitchen volunteer opportunity” means “I want to help local homeless in my community, what is a reputable organization I can help with?”. You can shoot video clips of volunteers engaging with their community and the impact your donors make every day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. AGI is a vehicle for positive social change ideas that connect people in need with people who want to help.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Lindsay Walker is a fundraising consultant. in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and a M.P.A. Read Brandee Wessel's " A cultural shift within the nonprofit community.". We should never apologize for offering such a tremendous opportunity. Get another!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Job training for at-risk youth, veterans re-entering the workforce, or even homeless or transitional populations. Browse articles about Training Support and Consultants. Hear what other nonprofits and libraries are saying in our Community Forums. Building your social media presence with training on Twitter and Facebook.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. Read up on your ever generous, thoughtful, and talented peers and have a great weekend!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Yes, Labor Day is now long past (or so it already feels), but the three-day weekend never slowed down the nptech community! She got lots of great advice on how to work together better, from staff and board members, to consultants and grant writers. Read up on your ever generous, thoughtful, and talented peers and have a great weekend!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With more than 75 events scheduled for October, there's probably an event scheduled for your community, so RSVP now for one of our meetups. If you're holding monthly events that gather the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! There's also a high demand for social media consults.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Say something like “ Today, in this season of giving, we are extending a special thanks to our donors who give regularly to our organization, stepping up time and time again for homeless families.”. Make a list of people who represent your organization in the community and on social media. Be sure to tag them all!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. Which community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Peter did a strategy consult with a local organization. I'm feeling a case study coming on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I didn’t feel like the Twitter community could handle another cause infused global campaign on the scale of Twestival so soon. My gut told me to think locally and use this international momentum and inspire people to shine a spotlight on a local cause, or a cause that a community would get behind. This much I know for sure.

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