Remove Homeless Remove Map Remove Student Remove Websites
article thumbnail

What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. If you want to help first generation college students, how do you want to help them? Feed people?

Nonprofit 111
article thumbnail

TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Leonard Library.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Write Your Nonprofit Business Plan in 9 Sections

Get Fully Funded

For example, if you run a homeless shelter, you should mention the number of people who are homeless on any given night in your area. Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work? For instance, how many of the students you tutor graduate high school?

Business 124
article thumbnail

Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Connecting and enriching a national movement. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

article thumbnail

10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. 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. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

Remix 50
article thumbnail

A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. The maps are made by community members.

article thumbnail

14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

Your website is one of your organization’s most important assets and should anchor your entire digital marketing strategy. Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts.