Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If none of your volunteers want to help recruit or give a name of a friend or family member who could volunteer for you, you may want to step back and survey your volunteers to gauge their current satisfaction and engagement levels. Collaborate with local businesses. Reach out to former volunteers. Connect with civic groups.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

From our colleagues at the United Way of America, an update on 2009 Call Volume: 2-1-1 call centers across the country have completed their annual survey of call traffic. 2-1-1 is funded through local and state sources including United Ways and other nonprofits, foundations, businesses, and state and local government.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A brief survey about how they found out about your organization, why they chose your organization, and what types of communication they would like to receive. You can include a mail option and a QR code linking to an electronic survey. You might be able to find a local bakery who will work with you to create something special.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2017

Local pet rescue clinic” means “what is the best pet rescue clinic near me?”. Soup kitchen volunteer opportunity” means “I want to help local homeless in my community, what is a reputable organization I can help with?”. To help with your local SEO strategy you should set up a Google My Business account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

Working with local businesses, Boulder Food Rescue identifies places where food that would usually be thrown away can be saved instead. Boulder Food Rescue provides food to homeless shelters, working-poor families, schools, charities, low-income housing cooperatives, and other organizations in need.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Try partnering with your local news station to increase the reach of your campaign.

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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.

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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. into the workplace. Surprises So Far.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

To make sure school supplies aren’t out of reach for any student, they created the Free Teacher Market to help “Erase the Need” for local students. John Center for Homeless Men recently added some engagement to their Raisin’ the Rent event with virtual house parties ! You’ll also want to send out a post-event survey.

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Education Virtual Fundraising Guide 52

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. A new employee at a local foundation educates herself on the agencies they are funding by visiting their social network sites. A volunteer group put on a Fun Day. In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Also, phone calls to local organizations prior to the event might help with no-show rate.

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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. For instance, let’s say your nonprofit is all about reducing food waste by connecting food locales with community kitchens. You can say the same about audiences. But that message is all about you!

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

You can check out an in-depth look at the survey results in our webinar Inspiration Station: Creative Virtual Fundraising Ideas from Real Nonprofits. To ensure this stays virtual, make the list something that you can do at-home or just around the local neighborhood. Or, you can make the entire scavenger hunt based online!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

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). As noted earlier, however, the United States has been slow to adopt this model.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully. "You could get feedback on the questions you plan to ask on a survey or get feedback on some of the data that might make you think differently." Remember that "aztex ascii garbage."?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Not only do they aggregate existing data, they do a bi-annual phone survey to tackle questions like "have you been discriminated against in the last year?" Want to know the demographic spread of your county?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Do survey results from Giving Tuesday donors yield the same level of allegiance to your organization? Find out why by sending them a survey. For example, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide food and supplies for the homeless might create a registry with nonperishable foods, shower products, vitamins, and other useful products.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 95

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And we’re going to see what kind of shortfalls there are from a state and local perspective in the coming years because of COVID, but hoping that some of the other federal funds that we’re receiving through ARPA can try to help stop the bleeding a little bit. Are you actually doing a survey? I assume, yes, but. .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Small to medium-sized and local nonprofits are challenged to create awareness. CONSIDER: When’s the last time you conducted audience surveys for your target constituencies (e.g. Ask via survey. The first step of the marketing or fundraising continuum (or funnel) is awareness. Know, and Write For, Your Audience. People change.

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