ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2019

The New Life Center (NLC), led by Rob Swiers, provides support and shelter for those afflicted with addiction and homelessness. She hopes to continue her work by teaching ethics and leadership classes and assisting nonprofit organization through consulting and board work. Finding Unrestricted Funds.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. I may want to help end homelessness, but not have a clue how to make a difference on a scale that moves the needle. People Yearn to Express their Love . Your job is to help them do so. Philanthropically.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, if you are taking a volunteer for your homeless shelter that offers overnight accommodations and food service, you want to familiarize that person with the food service program, since that’s where they will be serving. Teach Them About the Program, Too. Your Fundraising Volunteers. About the Author.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Simplify day-to-day translation, speed up multilingual communications work, or integrate bilingual dictionaries into your teaching toolkit with the Ultralingua donation program at TechSoup. As a teaching aid. Tear Down the Language Barrier. In communications. Make translating content on brochures, mailings, and press releases easier.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kwanzaa teaches that giving back is a necessity, so reciprocity and philanthropy are inherent to the holiday. 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.”).

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 15, 2019

Nothing says spring quite like flowers, so host a workshop that teaches donors the basics of floral design. So, if your organization is a homeless shelter or a community organization that gives to families in need, take it off their hands! Your golf course of choice might even donate some of the associated costs! Spring Cleaning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2013

My mom had a variety of teaching and counseling positions while my dad worked mostly for nonprofits. and my second post, Why I Do Good: The Center and Agape. I was raised to serve. In addition to being very involved with our church community , my parents'' professional work was service-oriented.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. Many describe homelessness as being voiceless and invisible. We have all seen huge programs with complicated processes to end homelessness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Today, I got an email from a blog reader, Cindy Williams, who is the founder of a nonprofit, Teaching Hands. Some will launch sooner, while others have already swung into action. They are located in Boise, Idaho.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. I'm very honored that @hardlynormal , a homeless activist, has donated. What could be more fun? Thank you for donating!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Whether your organization is training its staff and volunteers to use Windows 8 or FileMaker, or teaching others technical programs like Excel, the new Atomic Training Donation Program at TechSoup can help you get started. Job training for at-risk youth, veterans re-entering the workforce, or even homeless or transitional populations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

It demands that we remember, as individuals, that what we do on a daily basis, on the regular — planning that Halloween carnival or participating in a homeless count across the city — matters. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2016

Is cancer more important than homelessness, child abuse a higher priority than infant mortality? Although there could be nonprofits that teach kids this skill, you could also take the approach of saying “we’re going to give to nonprofits that have marketing needs like those we fulfill as a business.”

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Job training for at-risk youth, veterans reentering the workforce, or even homeless populations. Host training sessions, teach online classes, and give presentations with GoToTraining.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

You can use Citrix’s webinar tools to teach your team how they can contribute to digital story development. Then tools like GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, and GoToWebinar from Citrix Online let you share your desktop and collaborate with your creative team.

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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. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. This is a screenshot of the Giving Initiative for Teens’ Homelessness and Poverty campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer event.].

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 19, 2011

Most people don't know how it feels to, for example, read to kids at homeless shelter, until they do it. [4] Stephanie teaches undergraduate courses in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management program, and she has also been a youth summer camp director for over 20 years. Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. That’s why we teach the brain break to kids in school — you not only get that short-term relaxing “aaah,” you’re also building the long-term strength of your brain’s CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 17, 2013

Stories are also used teach us how to behave and how to grow up (something Peter Pan lacked). Let’s tell stories about what it feels like to be a survivor or to have lost a loved one or to have once been homeless and now have a home. These stories will be remembered and shared by our supporters. And isn’t that what we want?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. You can build and maintain an attractive website yourself using a builder like Squarespace or you can hire a consultant to build your website and then teach you to maintain it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. We also need other organizations to lead by teaching us how to communicate, others to lead by creating models of analysis and measurement, and so on.

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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. BONUS – See this idea in action! In the last year, the St.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. The mission of the Skid Row School is to train leaders to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems as rapidly as possible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

Street Yoga is a group in the Pacific Northwest that teaches free yoga and wellness classes to youth living on the streets and in foster care, children of homeless families, and young people recovering from abuse and trauma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

In my training work with emerging nonprofit leaders , teaching how to ask powerful questions and hone your listening skills is part of the leadership development curriculum and workshops. But for now, Listening and feedback loops are important skills for nonprofit leaders and for organizations to get better results.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2017

While many faith-based nonprofits can show traditional tangible outcomes such as hungry mouths fed or homeless families sheltered, you don’t need physical outcomes in order to be able to highlight the results of your work to donors. Showing these connections can make it much easier for your supporters to make gifts to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

A Gift for Teaching’s 2021 Back-to-School Drive. The first of our peer-to-peer fundraising examples comes from A Gift for Teaching. A Gift for Teaching hosted a Back-to-School Drive in the form of a peer-to-peer fundraising event. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake 2021 Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? I told Marnie's story about the Northern CA Homeless Group story and someone pointed out that the homeless photo I used was from Washington, DC. I am teaching two more sessions. I think showing the Web 2.0

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women. I have been reading the wonderful book Forces for Good, by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, where this dilemma is presented quite starkly.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Saturday, September 2, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

They teach them life skills and educate them to be self-sufficient. Bridge Communities 88.6%* of every $1 goes directly to work on 6 levels to help transition families from homelessness to complete self-sufficiency in about two years. $25 Transitions Cambodia : Helps many girls being trafficked throughout the southeast Asia area.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, "Please give this family a place to stay for the night; and why dont you see if you can eliminate homelessness in the meantime?" Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? —oh and while youre at it, can you please end all hunger everywhere?" American Humanics: An Elite Group Research Friday: Do you feel the force of the demo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.

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