Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Through a series of adorable photos, Palmetto Animal League celebrates its donors (“Because of you, homeless animals are filled with hope”), shared the story of Mr. Mooney, a high-maintenance hunk, and invited their supporters to Send a Valentine with a donation.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 29, 2016

Nonprofit Uses App to Survey Homeless People Daily—What Do You Need? Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports : "In recent years, as technology and social media have expanded many non-profits have chosen to use these resources to help homeless people. via Blog this'

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Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

Photo credit: Pixels Effect via gettyimages The post What’s trending? Top subject searches in Candid nonprofit profiles appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

On a recent coaching call, I rewrote an appeal for a homeless ministry and they raised over $20,000 with it! Try one of these: Add photos of the person/animal in the story. Stick to photos where we can see the person’s/animal’s eyes. So I KNOW this works! Use the signature of the top-ranking staff person.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Enjoy music, food, a fun ski lift photo and try your hand at the ski simulator on October 23 rd from 7-9:30pm! Give back to the Denver community by assembling hygiene and health kits, which will be donated to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. The colorado mountains are inspired this event.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Each participant uses a private Chatter group in a secure Salesforce community to capture highlights of them being good at something using video, audio, photos, and text (shout out here to the Appinium team and their awesome products for native media handling and sharing).

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We We cannot thank you enough.” .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Here's the update I received along with the photo above. Mensajeros de la Paz with a virtual homeless kid has received enough Money to. The homeless. Have you been able to draw attention to issue of homeless youth?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

Flickr photo: Anne Helmond The Rob Stuart Memorial Award honors the spirit of the man who was so pivotal in creating our community. The 2013 Award Winner Invisible People uses the lens of a television camera to tell the stories of homelessness and the organizations trying to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

She also posed for social media photos with all my books. I remember her wrapping up Thanksgiving leftovers and distributed them to homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia. She was proud of my accomplishments in the Nonprofit Technology field, including being a board member of NTEN, and that prompted her to learn about it.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Use compelling photos and video. When the donor clicks through to the donation page, a call to action should be prominent like “Your gift helps us feed the homeless!” Make this page short, easy to read, and include photos if possible so the donor can get an idea of how their money will make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. To be a little meta, here’s a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Handing out food to the homeless for a day or attending the completion celebration for a water purification system at a small village overseas can impact a generous donor in a meaningful way that other charities they may contribute to do not. Create unique videos and photos detailing the impact of their donation. Public recognition.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

We rely on friends just like you to help us feed our community’s veterans.” …along with a nice photo Which one would make you feel great about the gift you just made? For example, “Your donation of $10 will provide a day’s food and care for a homeless veteran. .” …plus the standard default language. See the hero language?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos. where donated Adobe Creative Suite software empowers homeless people in St. Inspire others using the social share buttons to share these stories with your network. You can begin in the U.S.,

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

While the theme remained the same – sponsor a homeless animal – the options changed. The pig was featured throughout the email – header photo, headline and the clever subject line (“Make your honey happy as a pig in mud”). This first email focused on a pig and dog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The app lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition magic to find your dog match. Not only did they take repeated photos to see what breed of dog would match their photo, they also started to ask if we could adopt a dog. Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

By lighting the spark that started a grassroots movement with the ultimate goal of no more homeless pets, they’ve strategically used content marketing in the form of user-generated content that’s easily created through a mobile app for iPhone and Androd devices. Go find out what your dog match looks like !

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. You may include physical photos of the character or describe their appearance. Visual storytelling with photos and videos is extremely valuable when available.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2012

See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos. where donated Adobe Creative Suite software empowers homeless people in St. Inspire others using the social share buttons to share these stories with your network. You can begin in the U.S.,

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Place photos and videos on your GivingTuesday page to illustrate your goal and why it matters. For nonprofits that address needs in their local community—such as hunger or homelessness—consider running a food drive, coat drive, or toy drive alongside your GivingTuesday campaign. On your donation page, explain why you’re fundraising.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Participants can download an app to submit photos, videos, and text answers proving that they’ve completed challenges or deciphered clues. Send your participants their challenges or the list of items they need to find, and ask them to send back photos or videos. John Center for Homeless Men’s virtual house parties event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 20, 2014

Groups working on poverty and homelessness issues. Flickr photo credit: Colored pencils by Alan Cleaver. Having arts and great theater and writing teachers in school changed my life. Are there things that my family gave to when I was growing up? Is there is someone I want to honor? Not at this time.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

A Photo Essay by Wendy Marinaccio A team of 30 NTEN-ers volunteered our mornings at the Community for Creative Nonviolence, which runs the largest homeless shelter in the country. [As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.]

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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. Blog posts or photos from volunteers and other “boots on the ground” staff who want to share their experiences Video with your religious leader or a board member explaining your organization’s impact.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

You can drive social media to your blog as well, where you can post more substantial content within your updates , such as interviews, photo galleries, Q&As, and more. Some of the best and most powerful stories need only a great photo to create a connection and pique curiosity — National Geographic is the master of this.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Photos of multicolored lights, colorful beads, sticky rice, and tea. Get specific and include donor gift amounts, just skip the bar graphs and pie charts (“Your gift of $150 allows us to serve 68 meals to homeless families this winter.”). Taking place on Dec. Crafting Your Inclusive End-of-Year Appeal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. For example, Project Renewal helps homeless people get off the streets. They showed Harry Dickerson reclaim his life from homelessness on their Giving Tuesday campaign and raised over $70,000 with this storyline.

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Forum One

MAY 1, 2009

I have posted photos and more about our contribution to the conference's Day of Service on our "Field Notes" blog. Photo Gallery: Connections for San Francisco's Homeless. While several of us were in San Francisco for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we helped install a wireless network in a local community center.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Use Adobe's Photoshop CS6 or Photoshop Elements to refine photos or create motion graphics. Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I studied sociology, did a summer internship for the National Coalition for the Homeless , studied in Sweden for a semester (so that I could understand how their public policy worked), co-chaired Vassar''s Hunger Action chapter, and wrote a couple pieces about social-changey things for the student newspapers.

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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. Have the teams either collect or take photos of the items.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

My good buddy Mel Young of the Homeless World Cup was the evening keynoter: he's got an exciting story to tell. I then had a wonderful tour of local pubs in Edinburgh, and I have at least one photo to remember it by! I placed a more extensive upload of photos from the Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 on my Flickr pages.

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