Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. 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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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Unions can vary dramatically in size (partially due to the local vs. national structure we explained last week). The national arm of the National Association of Letter Carriers (as opposed to any of the locals) is by far the largest union in terms of revenue, bringing in $1.78 Financial data. billion in assets, $26.3 billion dollars.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Eric Munoz. Nicolas Umuhizi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. I remember her wrapping up Thanksgiving leftovers and distributed them to homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia. Let me connect some dots.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Collaborate with local businesses.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Ali was expected to make a training video from home on how to extract a bone marrow sample — without an examining room, without equipment, and most especially without an animal. One of my Northern Virginia colleagues, who works a very local organization – a homeless shelter – reported that she has a virtual volunteer from California.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. For example, if you are taking a volunteer for your homeless shelter that offers overnight accommodations and food service, you want to familiarize that person with the food service program, since that’s where they will be serving.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Virtual event fundraising. Virtual craft fair.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Have a brilliant idea for how to end homelessness, train job seekers , or help small businesses go green? To generate innovative strategies and solve problems in underserved communities, SAP and Ashoka have created a global competition, " The Power of Small: Entrepreneurs Strengthening Local Economies."

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? You might still see yourself as a local animal shelter, but if 80% of your programmatic impact reports focus on one cohort of service (in this case, dogs from Tijuana), some of your donors may not feel the same connection to your mission. Are you working with new demographics?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

However, we can actively try to build cross-community bridges in an attempt to understand our own locality from other points of view. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

We are particularly pleased to support those partnerships that weave 2-1-1 operations into a more holistic effort, such as when integrated with elder care, homeless management, or disaster response. 2-1-1 centers are staffed by trained specialists who quickly assess the callers’ needs and refer them to the help they seek.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. Smooth Transition's life skills development and educational training increase levels of employability. .'s twenty-five metropolitan areas. One in five people there live at the poverty level.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

There are also many homeless and disabled veterans in the area. The project provides paid internships and job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy (through gardening!) The garden's organic produce will be sold at local farmers' markets to fund project activities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Remember the car?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

These volunteers are individuals who volunteer in the capacity of their everyday work or with skills that they are specifically trained in. The difference between a skilled volunteer and a non-skilled volunteer is that skilled volunteers have education, training or abilities that a volunteer from the general population would not have.

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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. Consider hiring a consulting firm that specializes in developing strategies and training nonprofit executives.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

For others, when the holiday season begins this year on Thanksgiving, traditions include giving back to their community and volunteering for local nonprofits. Most of the time, this involves serving meals at a soup kitchen, working at a homeless shelter or ringing a bell outside a store. But you never know!). Get the Word Out.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

" Organizations like Applications for Good and Code for America are engaging developers to build mobile tools with the needs of local communities in mind. In addition to efforts to build community-relevant apps, a number of initiatives designed to train youth from underrepresented communities to build mobile apps have recently launched.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Mukono, Uganda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Help support local connections with other nonprofit techies. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? Direct the Rider. Bad is stronger is than good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I invited her to share her thoughts about cause fatigue and scaling as she launches the Twestival Local. My gut told me to think locally and use this international momentum and inspire people to shine a spotlight on a local cause, or a cause that a community would get behind.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

I often found myself asking, "What do you mean I have to create a volunteer program, or put together an advocacy training, or plan a Halloween carnival? Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Most of the emails I receive are from companies or organizations, but this week I received an email from a reader who, along with her sister, is a triathlete "tri-ing" to end homelessness by raising awareness and funds for Genesis Home , a transitional shelter for homeless families in Durham, NC. homelessness triathalon activism

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Help support local connections with other nonprofit techies. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? How great it is to be in a room with everyone.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Help support local connections with other nonprofit techies. Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? How great it is to be in a room with everyone.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Walden House was founded in the Haight-Ashbury district, just two years later, in 1969 and focused on helping runaway youth and the homeless with substance abuse problems. ” BetterWorld also supported and trained HealthRIGHT to get the most value from their services. Glenn & JP have been great.”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change. The mission of the Skid Row School is to train leaders to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems as rapidly as possible. Our participants reflecting local age/income/ethnic diversity? Is it partnerships and participation?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2013

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. Similar exchange systems were also established with the police department and local nonprofits that might refer youth to the shelter. announcements, coordinating volunteer training, and establishing. I looked up shelters all over the U.S. and Canada.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Conduct a peer-to-peer campaign with food trucks and other local vendors within your community. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. Increase awareness on relevant issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. What that means in the face of a storm like Sandy is that, as the subways and trains started running again, and as much of Manhattan was getting back to some sense of normalcy, thousands of people in public housing were still without heat, water, electricity, or food.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Epic Change uses their donations to provide interest-free loans to local partners to finance their community improvement efforts. Because Mama Lucy, the local woman who founded the school we're now partnered with in Tanzania, turned income from chickens into a school that now serves 200+. Here is more about their approach. Epic Change.

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