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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Sometimes that one phone call can give you a leg up when it comes time for the funder to review grant proposals. Some focus only on program and project support, while others may offer general operating support (these are not as common, though).

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5 Ways to Make LinkedIn Board Connect Work for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We provide housing to the chronically homeless who have HIV/AIDS, mental health issues, chemical dependency, and other special needs. So I dropped the words homelessness and volunteering from my search. Halpert , a LinkedIn trainer, helped a Connecticut nonprofit search for board members.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. From there they traversed Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut, and then drove to Boston. They lost power, heat, and light.

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