Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . As a pilot, it followed a group of individuals for six months before its formal launch in August, with a 93% success rate in predicting when someone would become chronically homeless.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Housing and Homelessness Lead at Tableau Foundation. Launched in October 2019, Housing Connector recognizes that access to a stable home is often cut short at the point of the rental application. Housing Connector deliberately uses a simple approach to overcome the complexities in ending a crisis like homelessness.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

Two days after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the Boston Foundation set up a special fund to provide rapid-response support to local nonprofits serving communities disproportionately affected by the outbreak. The first 15 grantees supported communities of color, immigrants, seniors, children, and the homeless, among others.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Housing and Homelessness Lead at Tableau Foundation. Editor's note: In August 2021, Tableau Foundation made a $550k grant to Housing Connector. Launched in October 2019, Housing Connector recognizes that access to a stable home is often cut short at the point of the rental application. Jason Schumacher. Doug Minkler.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. They recognized they needed to expand who was at the table to select applications for funding.

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Candid

JUNE 20, 2023

Browse and uncover insights on the Demographics via Candid dashboard Through a grant funded by the Tableau Foundation , Candid created a public Tableau dashboard that allows people to search for and surface demographic data-driven insights on U.S. nonprofits and foundations.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Director of foundation relations, so you’ll probably know a few things we talk about today. How do I navigate and write grant applications? How do I navigate and write grant applications? And the “How do I navigate and write grant applications?” We’ve got some freelance grant writers. Fantastic.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Here are a few questions to get you started: What is an appropriate ask amount for a nonprofit who has never been funded by your foundation? foundation profiles. Candid was recently formed when GuideStar and Foundation Center merged together.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

The job market is a strange one right now: Tons of open positions, but workers are holding out, demanding fair compensation and good working conditions — and many jobs with those in tech won’t give a second look to an applicant without an appropriate degree. I went from being homeless to owning a home.”

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In fact, having funding sources before you apply for a grant gives your organization credibility, making you stand out from the applicant pool. Writing about your organization will feel like second nature, and a lot of applications have similar, sometimes identical criteria.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Build a solid foundation. Avoid jargon, acronyms and insider talk.

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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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

charities are devoted to the work of human services like providing food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, care to the sick, and legal aid to the dispossessed. Foundations are increasingly calling for this type of measurement, but baseline measurements on the state of a community’s needs before providing services is difficult.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

I recommended six grants for my 2019 year-end distributions and the entire process required an investment of twenty minutes of my time; and what a wonderful feeling it brought me to know that my local food bank, animal society, homeless shelter, and others will have much-needed, end-of-year support for their missions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. Prospecting is the act of compiling lists and contact information for potential funders, including individuals, foundations, businesses, and other grantmakers.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

For decades, storied independent organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have worked alongside newer philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health through strategic grantmaking. Hospitals Moving into Funder Roles. by number of hospitals).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

For the past six months, I’ve been collaborating with Third Plateau Social Impact on the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Here’s an example of a mayor who slept in a cardboard box outside to learn of the plight of homeless people in his city.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. John Center for Homeless Men. At the end of the festival, host a trivia competition to put what your community members have learned from the takeovers to the test.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Without a strong foundation and a clear roadmap, it’s easy for non-profits to veer off course, squandering precious time and resources and falling short of their vision. In the end, nailing the planning process is like laying down the foundations for a fortress. On the income side, identify and evaluate potential funding sources.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

On a private plane, I didn’t know banks own private planes, but they flew me on a private plane to talk to the Mabee Foundation in Oklahoma and we got $250,000 gift from there. I’ve worked with those foundations. I know those foundations. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Social sector organizations address our nation’s most challenging issues—poverty, homelessness, social justice, education and the environment. That’s why foundation funding and the time your team spends fundraising and managing grants (vs. What are foundations focused on when making a funding decision? Jeff Kutash.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

For instance, there are a few foundational nonprofit web development strategies your team should definitely implement. Supporters need multiple ways to get involved, and your site should make it clear and easy to get started with a donation, volunteer application, adoption, or fundraising page setup. Mobile-responsive design.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. It’s writing the application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

So, when Pat Brandes from the Barr Foundation sent me this thought piece on building resilience of networks, it resonated on many different levels. Lessons Learned About Resilient Networks from Super Storm Sandy by Pat Brandes, Executive Director, the Barr Foundation. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

Sadly, this portrayal of poverty, homelessness, and frustration while seeking help is an honest one. The way our social good ecosystem currently functions leaves many applicants bouncing between unconnected organizations, retelling painful stories, and receiving disjointed care.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

We work to end the cycle of homelessness for families in our community. And for practical reasons, you might need a vision and mission statement for grant applications. It’s the foundation of your messaging. We rescue, protect, and find loving homes for stray and neglected cats and dogs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Amit Patel.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They may not want to give you a grant if they see your animal welfare nonprofit is living off of your adoption fees or your homeless shelter is solely running on a large government grant. If you build it, they will come” is definitely not applicable to fundraising! Any one event or grant or other source could disappear in a moment.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

The latest Charities Aid Foundation COVID-19 report found that at the end of 2020, 93 percent of charitable organizations reported being adversely affected by the pandemic. Nonprofits surveyed by the Toronto Foundation widely believe (65 percent) that the pandemic will significantly threaten their finances for the next five years.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So maybe you got 20 people off the streets who were living homeless in your community, and that was 30% of the homeless population that you’re aware of. But just saying, “We helped 20 people who are homeless,” does not provide context. ” Right? Future impact. Everyone does that.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This is consistent with previous research that has found that large nonprofits are more likely to have the capacity to go through the arduous and lengthy government grants application process. According to the latest available data, private foundations award around $107 billion annually to U.S. nonprofits.

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