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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

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Or maybe your Executive Director or Board wants you to focus on certain ones? Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Sometimes, private and family foundations will hire a bank to handle their philanthropic business, taking the burden off their Board of directors. Prioritize your list.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lessons Learned About Resilient Networks from Super Storm Sandy by Pat Brandes, Executive Director, the Barr Foundation. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000.

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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

Here is what Dalit Freedom Network executive director, Sherry Bailey, says about the impact of the video and storytelling: “The Freedom to Dream video was part of our annual Give For Freedom Campaign. It was filmed on location outside our free medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of Melbourne.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Dee Albritton, Fast Forward. He is talking about outside activities.