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Developing Apps with a Community-Centered Approach

Tech Soup

At tightly facilitated events called Generators, leaders with a range of expertise from the nonprofit and library communities discuss their daily work. Because many youth in the United States rely on free and reduced-cost meals during the school year, hunger is a real problem during the summer months when schools are closed.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. All of them talking about hunger issues. The conversation is the first step.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal. Consider hiring a facilitator. Work with the facilitator to plan the agenda. It’s a vision.

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End-of-Year Event Fundraising

The Modern Nonprofit

Hands for Hunger raised over $12,000 in donations through its first Online Virtual Concert. You can host a live stream from Zoom across multiple social platforms using Switcher Studio or Restream and allow panelists, speakers, and a facilitator. Utilize Google Maps or Map My Run , and encourage participants to share theirs, too.

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End-of-Year Event Fundraising in 2021

The Modern Nonprofit

Hands for Hunger raised over $12,000 in donations through its first Online Virtual Concert. You can host a live stream from Zoom across multiple social platforms using Switcher Studio or Restream and allow panelists, speakers, and a facilitator. Utilize Google Maps or Map My Run , and encourage participants to share theirs, too.

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Avoiding a House of Cards: Three Lessons from a Multiple-Organization Data Collaboration Project

NTEN

Fortunately, soup kitchens don’t work alone in addressing hunger. Collectively, these organizations begin to address the complex issue of hunger. As the findings began to come in, it became clear that what one person meant by “map the sector” was not always what everyone else meant when they said the same words.

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June Holley and The Art of Being Rhizomatic (The Practice of Network Weaving)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Monitor Institute. One might be drawing the map of the network's connections and facilitating a discussion about what the network looks like.

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