Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Creating a sense of urgency also works well for a matching gifts campaign or when showing a donation progress bar with a countdown timer to when a fundraising campaign ends. You can show your clients’ adventures, escapades (this works especially well for animal shelter nonprofits), or triumphs. It’s time to decide.”.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

I can see there might be an issue with the optics of this situation, but also know companies set up foundations to advance initiatives and work they align with and care about. Rather, you’re seeking critical investment in work that will make your community and world a better place. – – Too Greedy? You’re not a beggar!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

The number of new retained donors dropped 14.9% ( Fundraising Effectiveness Project ). 53% of nonprofit staff who are extremely or somewhat satisfied in their current roles donate to the organization where they work ( World-Changing Work Report ). homelessness (8%), and education (7%) ( Global Trends in Giving Report ).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This is an interview between Keli Sullivan, TechSoup’s RCI Program specialist and Candice Erdmann, information manager, at Transition Projects in Portland, Oregon. The mission of Transition Projects is to help people to transition from homelessness to permanent housing. She has been there just under five years.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. Homelessness and Mobile Technology. The Nonprofit Quarterly shared an interesting story from the National Desert News about the benefits of mobile access for homeless populations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

In honor of LGBT Pride Month , I wanted to highlight some inspiring LGBT technology projects you should follow and champion. While diverse in their missions, these projects all have the common threads of inclusivity, support, and access. LGBT Technology Partnership's Digital Inclusion Project. Trans*H4ck. Lesbians Who Tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2015

When she was 14, Sejal founded the Elevator Project , an organization that aims to lift people out of poverty through apprenticeship, vocational training and job placement. She said she went to the Gen Z Conference because she wanted to cultivate the skills she’ll need to take the Elevator Project to a national scale.

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Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I became the volunteer manager at a non-profit, FACETS , that works with people struggling with homelessness and poverty. Two groups wanted to do one-day projects, and the other two were offering five days of service in total. To complicate matters, the work days overlapped. An example of this happened last June.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

Multimillion dollar gifts and mega gifts come in all shapes and super sizes and whether you work at a smaller nonprofit or one that has a $100 million budget, you can gain a lot from a mega gift. Bring large, organization-wide projects and initiatives to life. The funding often is used to do assessments and plan for larger projects.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

based nonprofits from Candid that serve the homeless population. In our first project, How Sad is Your Mission Statement? For our second project, Who Do Nonprofits Serve? This should be a hopeful message focused on your philosophy and vision for the world you’re working to create. Study 2: Who do nonprofits serve?

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. It also reduces the potential for error and duplication of work.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

I can see there might be an issue with the optics of this situation, but also know companies set up foundations to advance initiatives and work they align with and care about. Rather, you’re seeking critical investment in work that will make your community and world a better place. – – Too Greedy? You’re not a beggar!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Love this email the fabulous Alice Ferris got from Ten Oaks Project. always works best. Their second subject line: “What is doubled-up homelessness?” . Winning Giving Tuesday email subject lines and why we love them. Alice, help get 4 more kids to camp! s t r e t c h goal for koalas! People who are unhoused do have jobs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. That changed when LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 For example: 1.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our work in this area has been recognised with two national awards from the Royal Society for Public Health and PwC , but more importantly, it’s enabling young people to change their lives. If you’re working in any of those spaces, wellbeing is what you should be interested in. Count the Right Numbers. About the Author.

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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. However, there’s a lot more work to be done. What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We all work for nonprofits. But when you switch from the "why" to the "what" of our work, the similarities end. Museum work is mostly non-contact.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

When you think about an inkind gift, you may think of stuff, such as bottled water and packaged snacks for events or hotel-sized shampoo and conditioner for a shelter serving homeless families. For example, a homeless shelter in my area was given a piece of property in a prestigious community. Be very careful here!

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2017

That is, once they’ve cultivated a new donor, they spend a considerable amount of time and effort attempting to persuade that donor to volunteer or participate in some kind of hands-on activity at their headquarters or at an off-site location where the donor can experience their work firsthand. Sound familiar? Be honest.).

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mission statements are typically short and to the point, briefly communicating the nature of the organization’s work, impact , goals, and values. It should provide a clear explanation of the work you do and resonate with everyone involved—from top-level board members to the beneficiaries of your work. Here’s an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Pedraza Martinez , University of Notre Dame Most food banks, homeless shelters and other social services nonprofits constantly face hard decisions about how to use their limited funds. That is, they pay for administrative work with money designated as program-related in their budgets.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

And, for those organizations that have meaningful projects that actually require large numbers of people to accomplish them – like park clean ups or painting a school – a day of service can be an effective way to attract the workforce needed to get the work done quickly.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When funders request your “project budget” or “program budget,” they are often requesting your direct costs—or the cost associated with offering your programmatic intervention. Organizations can conduct a time study to determine the amount of time folks spend on specific tasks and projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

These sorts of echo chambers are common inside the Twitterverse – it’s the same with most celebrities and musicians who also tend to only follow each other, but in the case of nonprofits and politicians who are working on many of the same issues, not following the nonprofits listed below is a lost opportunity. UNICEF :: @ UNICEF.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All that said, when doing your shopping this year, please be conscious of the power of your spending and put your dollars to work for good by purchasing from any of the 22 online gift stores that benefit nonprofits – especially on #GivingTuesday. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Online Store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. A free agent is a person (many times a GenY, but not always ) who is a passionate about a social cause, but is working outside of a nonprofit organization to organize , mobilize , raise money , and engage with others.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. The point is to know WHY you’re meeting and what you want to walk away with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

By focusing on projects, NGOs can gain the confidence of donors by keeping them updated on how funds are to be used. Fundraise for a specific project, knowing exactly how funds are going to be used will encourage individuals to donate. M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013.

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BoardAssist

JULY 8, 2014

Hopefully this post will help you as you work through your nonprofit’s financial needs. On the other hand, a homeless shelter cannot turn away the needy when the building becomes full. For the homeless shelter, the number of clients is too variable to form the basis of a budget. Budgeting for any nonprofit is no easy task.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

However, we know that like anyone working to make lasting change, we cannot and do not do this work alone. In addition, customers are continuing to be innovative in how they do their work, with a whopping 89% reporting that their work has changed or improved as a result of using Salesforce.

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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. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool. Tech Recycling Day.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Charitable giving was up in 2020 , and projections for nonprofit giving trends in 2021 and 2022 are even rosier. I am not surprised, because I’ve been doing this work for four decades and it’s been ever thus. And projections from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis show it’s likely to happen again.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Today, we’re introducing our first Salesforce.org Impact Labs cohort on zero hunger and their work on U.S For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Food Insecurity.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meanwhile, your colleague is exploring ways to end homelessness in your city or tackle the opioid crisis. You both lead your institution’s work in critical community partnerships. Yet, their work can still profoundly advance your fundraising efforts, particularly around community health.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There are grants out there for programs, general operations, projects, and capital – but not all funders award all of these. Some focus only on program and project support, while others may offer general operating support (these are not as common, though). Here are 3 ways that your program/project can match a funder’s interests.

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