Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

1) Sign up for Google for Nonprofits. The very first thing your nonprofit needs to do is register officially with YouTube, which is owned by Google. To do this, you will need: A Google for Nonprofits account (free). Just like YouTube Giving tools, Google doesn’t charge any fees, so all the proceeds go to your organization.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Their second subject line: “What is doubled-up homelessness?” . My friend Tom Ahern shared Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore who offer free dental care to the homeless, and the brainchild of their senior exec/fundraiser Keiren Havens. People who are unhoused do have jobs. Another gem she got? Better yet?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Your donors can easily contribute using Apple Pay or Google Pay with a simple tap of their smartphones and instantly support initiatives like homeless shelters, medical aid, or community programs. To cater to their tech-savvy preferences, consider integrating contactless payment methods like Bloomerang Tap to Pay.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Whether you’re focused on environmental defense, providing shelter for the homeless, or advocating for political change, you need a powerful base of support to push your nonprofit’s mission forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

They can also apply to Google for Nonprofits for a suite of free resources. For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. This is a perfect task for a board member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Mensajeros de la Paz with a virtual homeless kid has received enough Money to. The homeless. Google has more than 40,000 references of Mensajeros de la Paz+Second Life, most of them in blogs that have great audience. sponsor a child.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Smart-home voice assistants, such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, could also provide new ways of giving. 9) Religious donors are more likely to give to charitable organizations that provide basic needs and support the causes of children and youth, health and wellness, and hunger and homelessness.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Check the donor’s Facebook and LinkedIn profiles then Google them to see what you can learn about them. Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. The call probably won’t go that long, but you don’t want to feel rushed. Many major donors do not have high-profile online identities.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. One of the easiest free tools to find grants is through a search engine like Google, Yahoo!, But when I searched on Google, I had something pop up about an AARP Community Challenge Grant. Get clear on the type of funding you are seeking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2017

Since your nonprofit is fulfilling a particular need in society, you should begin by focusing on the needs of your target audience and what your readers will be searching for on various search engines like Google, Bing and Facebook. Whenever someone types something into Google, they are asking a question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. Google is very good at parsing content, but variations including number, parts of speech, and alternate spellings help, too. 5) Apply for a Google Grant.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. Austin, Texas: Google AdWords for Nonprofits. O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2013

Google’s mobile algorithm factors your location into mobile search results. For nonprofits, this could mean higher rankings for local mobile searches on homeless shelters, animal adoption or volunteer opportunities. Google recently announced upcoming changes to smartphone search result rankings. Mobile Email.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. Just like any single thing, mobile phones are a help, but not a cure for homelessness. Assuredly they are. The Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Google Analytics is a must-use tool to help understand your campaign performance. For nonprofits, this means focusing ads on your organization’s values, mission impact, and service results – the heart of your “product.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Peterborough, Canada: Analyze This- Making sense of Google Analytics. Vancouver, Canada: NetVideo² -A casual get together that will make you more awesome! Washington, DC: NetSquared meetup. Wednesday, October 16.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online. The Canadian technology battle continues with head-to-head reviews of document collaboration solutions, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. July is digital storytelling month Down Under. Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. O’Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. A Free Database Tool from Google. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). Friday, October 20, 2017. Monday, October 23, 2017.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

Now, there is extensive literature on effective networking techniques that are tested and true (I implore you to Google “effective networking”; it’s exhausting). Arizona is quite lucky to have all of these amazing people at the helm while combating issues in healthcare, education, homelessness, and mental health, to name a few.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2016

You can set up formulas using IFTTT.org or use Google Alerts to stay informed. Here’s an example, let’s say that your organization has a homeless shelter and the city that you live in has recently cut funding for local homeless shelters. Setting up designated lists in Hootsuite for social listening can also be very helpful.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. BONUS – See this idea in action! In the last year, the St.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

In some cases, it may be wise for your organization to publicize your volunteer program through paid advertisements on platforms such as Google AdWords, Facebook, or LinkedIn. If you decide to go with Google Ads, consider applying for the Google Ad Grants program. Invest in paid online advertising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Reports suggest 15,000 are homeless because of the storm, and 22 dead. There is a slideshow from this blogger , google map showing the path of destruction, and photos in Flickr from avylavitra. Ivan's track is pictured below, with darker purple representing Category 3 strength and lighter representing Category 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Use Google alerts and Twitter to follow your local publications and issues related to your organization’s mission.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s not the same thing to bring awareness to climate change as to be working to provide shelter for the homeless. Though all nonprofits further a social cause that provides a public benefit, no two are ever exactly alike. You can say the same about audiences. People willing to collaborate share a sense of generosity and empathy.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 15, 2024

Start by creating a Google Business Profile to show your business on Google Maps and local searches. Ensure that all of the details match the Google Business Profile across your site to make sure there’s no mismatch. This is a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm, which wants to see why your content should be trusted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

homeless.??? Just as Amazon and Google have enabled consumers to access products and information that meets their particular needs and interests by providing one-stop access to many, diverse choices, Network for Good has enabled donors to contribute to many, diverse nonprofits by putting a fragmented nonprofit ??? children,??? ???cancer,???

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too! We want thumbs up and thumbs down, and images. And speaking of images, we want to allow people to add notes like Flickr does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. National Coalition for the Homeless.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. This could be anything from googling the nearest rest-stop to re-coordinating the location for the evening’s event or housing when a tour stop venue or the evenings housing arrangement's fall through. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Patton, Donorly Multi-channel Marketing Strategies with Branding and Google Ad Grants – by Carl Diesing, DNL Omnimedia Turn Your Social Media Feed into a Viable Fundraising Channel – by Ryan Thomas, Oneicity. Google Grants. I recommend using Google Grants as your initial base search strategy. Paid Google Ads.

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