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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible.

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

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The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. success stories july14contest Local impact map youthorg'

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

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It uses GPS and mapping technology to show the distance between the user and nearby meal providers. "We're always looking at mobile services that can help impoverished, low income, and homeless communities," she told TechSoup. The free app provides a user with the nearest places for youth to get a summer meal.

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

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Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. Map out how you plan to share your stories via social media, email marketing, your website, and your snail mail appeal so that you get maximum value for each story you tell.

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Learn to Love Your Local Data

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Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Even if it doesn't map perfectly to your program, it's worth picking a "good enough" measure that everyone can use as opposed to a perfect measure that only works in your bubble. Check the census.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

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As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Here are the words that came up on the comfort zone map: And here is the complete transcription of the post-its.

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