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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. state and the city to find out what we needed to do to become licensed. My first day on the job was to familiarize myself with the organization by learning about their history and development. I looked up shelters all over the U.S. and Canada.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Chrysalis is dedicated to creating pathways to self-sufficiency for homeless and low-income individuals by helping them find and retain employment (Social Enterprise Alliance, 2016). Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA) is a licensed, comprehensive, 2-year residential substance abuse recovery program in North Carolina.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. This can inform.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

Darius Graham | Social Innovation Project | Washington, DC The Social Innovation Project tackles pressing social issues by providing seed funding and resources to help transform ideas into sustainable programs. Twitter: @BreakingHeels ) 2. Twitter: @dcsocialinnov ) 3. Erin Healy | Youth L.E.A.D. Miami, FL Youth L.E.A.D. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. Kids learned about homelessness. The data set has been stripped of personal information and now available on a creative commons license at Crisis Trends. It’s Monday.