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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

If you are a homeless shelter, you collect stories from those you have helped in from the cold. If you are a school, you collect parent and student stories. No matter how you plan to use the story, you want to be able to pick and choose which information you present from lots of different options.

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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

"It's a novel idea that homeless youth have so much to offer, and that these youth could really make the difference at this shelter. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Some of these challenges include a lack of funding for schools, a lack of access to high-quality educational resources and opportunities, and a lack of support for students and teachers. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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Holding a Golf Tournament This Summer? Here are our Top Reminders!

Greater Giving

These little shady stops also present a great opportunity to engage guests and raise more money! An animal shelter might give homeless dogs some outside time and put a pup at each stop to encourage breaks. A school could promote a piece of student artwork by placing one at each station along the course. Swag, Swag, Swag.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

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Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes. You can choose the path of personal gratitude and ground yourself in the present.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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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?

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