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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person. Next, donor management.

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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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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. Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray?

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Veterans Organic Garden: An Off-the-Grid Jobs Program

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There are also many homeless and disabled veterans in the area. The garden's organic produce will be sold at local farmers' markets to fund project activities. She told me, "With our homeless vet situation, and so many disabled vets coming back, I just asked myself: How can I make a dent in this situation?"

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HealthRIGHT 360: BetterWorld VoIP Case Study

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The following is an overview of a BetterWorld customer, HealthRIGHT 360 and interview with Dave Dayter, IT Director of HealthRIGHT 360 discussing their experience with BetterWorld and the TechSoup VoIP Donation Program. This is a guest post by Salem Kimble, Manager of Online Strategies with TechSoup donor partner BetterWorld Telecom.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

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I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. To collect this information, Boulder Food Rescue sends out teams of people to survey local businesses.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

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You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Dee Albritton, Fast Forward. He is talking about outside activities.

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A special Q&A session

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We house homeless women and children. When I worked at the local food bank, our unit of service was one pound of food, which cost us about 27 cents to receive and distribute. per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. For forest restoration, you’re protecting the land for future generations.

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