The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless workers say low pay and understaffing are contributing to high turnover, exacerbating what they contend are already difficult working conditions. They ideally would like to surpass the 50% mark, at which point management could grant them voluntary recognition that would bypass the need for an election.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

And, almost always, grants are the driving force of that frustration and tedium. Folks new to the industry seem to have an overblown notion of what grants can and should do for their organizations. They’re great tools—don’t get me wrong—but a grant can’t be your silver bullet.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Nonprofit organizations are beginning to use indirect costs more frequently in their budgeting processes, whether or not they are pursuing government grants. For example, Colleen is a program director at the local community center that offers senior programs and afterschool programs for youth. operating costs).

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

Just a few months ago, in November 2019, I sat on my front porch and made my donor-advised fund (DAF) grant recommendations via a donor portal within an app on my iPhone while simultaneously sipping a nice glass of wine. In the past, we would receive quarterly fund statements and an occasional letter or email about an event.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. “ Jennifer Thall. Principal Consultant, Heller Consulting. Jennifer has been working at Heller Consulting for eight years. Emilio Tavarez.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

By funding community-based organizations (CBOs), hospitals help to strengthen the nonprofit ecosystem needed to effectively address social determinants of health. Many local nonprofits are better positioned than a typical acute care hospital to meet the nonclinical needs of community members. Grants often have a multiplier effect.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Have you had any major changes in funding? Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. Have you narrowed or expanded your mission? Have you limited or expanded your service area?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable. In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94 Banks were not lending.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Funders reported they had swiftly begun distributing emergency funds, had loosened requirements imposed on grantees, and realized the need to commit to deeper change in order to support long-term sector sustainability. Organizations identify funding, policy, and communication as the top ways they want funders to support their work.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. However, BIPOC-led organizations are at a statistical disadvantage when it comes to securing funding, particularly from philanthropic sources.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world.

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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. The short-term goals are the steps to get funding, food and/or money donations, and pantry locations. Mary's Food Bank.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. For example, perhaps your nonprofit’s mission is to refurbish local community parks.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Cheryl has successfully designed and scaled high-impact programs, including the Pro Bono Program, Technology Grants, and Impact Labs.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

The thing I am most excited about is we are partnering with some local companies to offer our moms priority for jobs. Yea us we got the $150,000 HUD grant! . It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

In order to lead your ministry, provide valuable programming, and connect your community to your mission, you need adequate funds. The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

If your nonprofit is already up and running, a nonprofit business plan helps you decide if the funding and opportunities for growth exist for your new or young nonprofit. Listing previous successes and accomplishments in this section can be convincing for potential partners and reassure them that you will use their funding efficiently.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 27, 2015

To their horror, they learned that homeless pets in their area can freeze and die during the brutal winter months. " When it became clear that the county didn't have the budget to improve the existing animal shelter, HART's staff decided to raise private funds to build an animal adoption center.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Not really.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. If you don’t know Funding for Good, their principal, Mandy Pearce, has been on our webinar series many, many times over the last few years, recommended Marie as her top expert. You may be saying, “What do donors want to fund?”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our first program used private funds to pay restaurants to make meals for food-insecure San Franciscans who we reached through existing networks of care built by long-serving community-based organizations. We introduced our $1 million microgrant debt relief program, awarding 401 small businesses of all kinds with $2,500 grants.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Volunteer Grants. Raise Funds on Facebook. We’ve done the math and discovered that retaining your support is much more cost-efficient and results in more long-term funding than constantly acquiring new supporters. Provide information about how your organization plans to use the funds. Social Media Support. Accept Pledges.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We write grants, do community assessments and help other organizations provide services in our county. 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. Matching funds. Q: What is my story?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But from time to time, a donor will offer you something else: stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency, an acre of undeveloped land, a house, a boat, a car, a painting, a sculpture, a rare book, a musical instrument, or something else that makes you scratch your head. These gifts are simple and easy to deposit and use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Local Harvest. Because they make it easy to find your local farmer’s markets and organic food producers. National Coalition for the Homeless. World Wildlife Fund. Because it’s good to be reminded that Americans take for granted our access to clean water. Facebook || Twitter. Malaria No More.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Local Harvest. Because they make it easy to find your local farmer’s markets and organic food producers. National Coalition for the Homeless. World Wildlife Fund. Because it’s good to be reminded that Americans take for granted our access to clean water. Facebook || Twitter. Malaria No More.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

In addition to winning grants and prizes, the winners will compete for additional awards, which will be decided in a “Fan Favorite” public vote, so vote away! As part of its Be Fearless initiative, the Case Foundation has chosen the 20 winners of Finding Fearless —a nationwide campaign to recognize, reward and inspire fearless changemakers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. So the teens worked with the YES staff to put together a grant proposal in which they would partner with families at St. The Taylor Center is also explicitly not inside the St.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. The digital period converted many whole hearted believers, but it also made many others even more worried about our programs, services and grant deliverables.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. So the teens worked with the YES staff to put together a grant proposal in which they would partner with families at St. The Taylor Center is also explicitly not inside the St.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. I made lemonade with my lemons and raised a lot of funds. Yes, it’s true; those nonprofits that are organized raise more funds.

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