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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Mission: The Tacoma Recovery Center and CafĂ© is a community of women and men impacted by substance disorders, addiction, homelessness, PTSD, and other mental health challenges.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Your venue will need to accommodate attendees, sponsors, and event staff , with each of these audiences having unique needs that must be met. Where should sponsors set up a booth (if they get one)?

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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. Is the need for more beds seasonal? Avoid jargon, acronyms and insider talk.

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

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Sponsored by TechSoup Global (“ Sponsor ”), 435 Brannan St., c) Grant of Rights to Sponsor. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Ready to enter?

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Utah Pride Center: Unite, Empower, Celebrate

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Utah Pride is an events-based organization that supports the community through mental health services; programming for youth and families, teens, adults, and seniors; suicide prevention efforts; education and training; and a community space where people can gather and connect. The Pride Center offers a home.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. Focusing on KPIs. R u there?”.

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Understanding Why People Give (hint: it’s not what you think!)

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For instance, they may give to the homeless shelter because they feel bad for people who don’t have homes or because it feels good to help someone in need or because their favorite uncle was homeless for a while or because of all those reasons! Which teen is more likely to be more invested in taking care of the car?

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