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

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Hunger-relief organizations are among the most supported types of nonprofits using DipJar. Over the course of her career – which includes multiple hunger-related organizations – she has seen firsthand the impact hunger has on communities, large and small. million New Yorkers currently facing food insecurity.

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Weaving Empathy into Action: The Crucial Role of Storytelling for Nonprofits

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By sharing real stories of the real people or communities you serve, you can appeal to the hearts of potential donors, volunteers, and partners. 3) Higher Fundraising Success: A Stanford Social Innovation Review study found that nonprofits that tell engaging stories raise twice as much money on average as those that don’t.

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Is it a movement or a moment?

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When it comes to raising visibility on a given issue, nonprofits often strive to achieve broader impact—the kind of change that comes through collective action. These movements typically don’t start with a structured entity, but with inspired individuals who see what needs to change in their communities and decide to act on it.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

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However, this type of community giving (known as Harambee in Kiswahili) usually goes towards individuals rather than organisations, common examples include medical bills, funeral costs & weddings. By establishing trust, M-Changa can assist NGOs in Kenya to raise more funds and therefore achieve more.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

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In fact, behavioral science should inform the ways you recruit and engage supporters as well as raise awareness for your cause. A key benefit of this campaign is giving their supporters free rein of how they wish to raise money for the organization, promoting creativity and a sense of ownership. Leverage social information and norms.

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Bringing Hope Home in Central Florida

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For millions of Americans, hunger became a new and unwelcome fact of life. Second Harvest had no alternative but to work harder and smarter to meet the growing needs of the communities they serve. Knowing which communities were home to the greatest number of theme park employees informed the locations for the “Mobile Drops.”

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CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533%

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Their programs include six community food pantries, one mobile pop-up pantry distributing food in six different locations, a program called Gleaning that partners with local farmers to recover food that would otherwise go to waste, a hot meal program, and a summer camp program. Hunger Action Month. Stand in the Gap. Moral of the Story.

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