Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

A few years ago, a nonprofit executive was bragging to me about a fundraising breakthrough he had when he had gotten a new $5,000 donation from a local foundation and how much effort he, his board, his development director, and others spent wooing and making their case for the contribution. Protecting Arizona's Family Coalition.

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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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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Nonprofits are often justified in their confusion about indirect costs because government agencies and foundations have different policies and rules around indirect costs, so there is more than one way to calculate a cost. Not sure if your organization’s stakeholders are ready to incorporate indirect costs into your planning?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

For example, an animal shelter might use an offer like: “For just $6.20, we can provide a day’s worth of food, shelter, and medical care for a homeless dog or cat.” For example, a soup kitchen might use this offer: “For $1.87, we can provide a hot meal to a homeless person.” Your gift of $10.87 Nonprofits are full of great stories.

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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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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2023

After all, you need people and places to offer programs—it would be challenging for a nonprofit arts organization to have a pottery class without a studio and instructor. Understanding Indirect Costs for Nonprofits. If she needs more funding to pay her baking assistants, she could raise prices to $3 per cookie.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit’s mission is the foundation of everything you do. Since using the gendered noun “girls” in their organization name, homeless people who identify as trans or nonbinary may wonder if this organization will prevent them from receiving supplies due to their gender orientation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

Runaway and Homeless Youth – $25 Million. National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities – $75 Million each. Veterans Administration Homelessness Assistance Grants – $4 Billion. National Domestic Violence Hotline – $2 Million. Family Violence Prevention – $45 Million. Child Welfare Services – $25 Million.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

10M each for National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. $5M for Emergency Solutions Grants for homeless families and individuals or those who are at risk of homelessness. . for Emergency Solutions Grants for homeless families and individuals or those who are at risk of homelessness.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Create an online exhibition to showcase impressive art pieces your burgeoning young artists have created. John Center for Homeless Men. Virtual college + career prep workshop. Holiday e-card campaign.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A homeless shelter starts an initiative to get more beneficiaries into permanent housing and jobs. Storytelling is an art form that will take practice and experimentation. However, using these key elements will give your story the foundation it needs to be successful. Revise and refine. Stephen Minix, Sr.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

As in my previous blog about the Top 3 Measures of Financial Health , I will use the example of a small performing arts center, the Drama Queen (DQ) Theatre, to help illustrate these ideas. Third-party payers such as foundations, government, and/or individual donors are necessary to subsidize services provided.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We have new support from foundations and individuals who care about innovation in audience engagement—and even more importantly, participants who are excited to experiment with us.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2023

After all, you need people and places to offer programs—it would be challenging for a nonprofit arts organization to have a pottery class without a studio and instructor. If she needs more funding to pay her baking assistants, she could raise prices to $3 per cookie. A nonprofit operating a soup kitchen is not so lucky.

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Care2

MAY 9, 2008

I work for an agency that’s helping get the word out about Excell Foundation—they provide much-needed foodservice equipment supplies to non-profits, and they’re looking for wish lists. Excell Foodservice Dealer Network, a national group of industry vendors and dealers, created the foundation.

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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?" One of my favorite research reports is Daring to Lead , published by CompassPoint and the Meyer Foundation. —oh and while youre at it, can you please end all hunger everywhere?"

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Care2

MAY 8, 2008

I work for an agency that’s helping get the word out about Excell Foundation—they provide much-needed foodservice equipment supplies to non-profits, and they’re looking for wish lists. Excell Foodservice Dealer Network, a national group of industry vendors and dealers, created the foundation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Quality content is the foundation and incentive for shareability. Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.). Link earning helps improve search engine rankings and drives traffic to the website. Even creating press releases about data may be useful.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Pradeep Kumar G : I have chosen Compass Family Services as my charity because I believe that home is a basic need for everyone, and I have always looked for ways to help homeless people. It's such a cool integration of data and art. It plays on Escher's style and looks like an Escher piece of art in and of itself.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Pradeep Kumar G : I have chosen Compass Family Services as my charity because I believe that home is a basic need for everyone, and I have always looked for ways to help homeless people. It's such a cool integration of data and art. It plays on Escher's style and looks like an Escher piece of art in and of itself.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

Aaron Hurst , founder of the Taproot Foundation, notes that skilled volunteers are essential to helping nonprofits become self-sustaining and they help the nonprofit put forth the biggest impact in the communities they serve. For this reason, skilled volunteers are highly valuable - and as such managing them effectively is essential.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2015

The Irvine Foundation recently published a great study on this phenomenon. This seems to be the primary driver behind partnerships with organizations that serve specific target groups, whether those be homeless adults or preschoolers or ESL students. If we walk by many public art installations, we may feel more inspired to create.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Marcy Heim, The Artful Asker. Hitting It Out of the Park—Learn the Art of Major Gift Relationship Building. Marcy Heim, Founder and Principal of the Artful Asker, LLC, will share fundraising best practices for nonprofits. Create a mindset for success and learn the art of a major gift relationship building. 8-9am CST.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

Arts and cultural organizations (museums, theaters, orchestras, etc.). Community organizations (animal shelters, homeless shelters, child welfare, etc.). Without this foundation, you will not have the proper knowledge and direction you need to best pursue matching gifts at your organization.

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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. Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Ontario SPCA.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This includes IRS subsections 501(c)(1) through 501(c)(29), as well as unregistered churches and private and public foundations. Within these, public charities are 501(c)(3) nonprofits (excluding private foundations). Internal Revenue Code. Public charities represent 1.5 million of the 1.9 million U.S. nonprofits.

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Brevard Homeless Coalition The lead agency for the Continuum of Care and management of homelessness in Brevard County. friendsoffosterchildren.net Henegar Center Performing Arts Center The Henegar Center entertains, educates, and enriches by producing the highest quality performing arts experiences.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. This is through the Kellogg Foundation. So they provide emergency and longer-term, permanent supportive housing to individuals who are experiencing homelessness. So those are just some other considerations.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Foundation and corporate giving are also projected to increase. Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. By practicing the gentle art of fundraising. to raise $1), business and/or foundation grants ($0.20 and +11.9%). This is good news.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

As part of its Be Fearless initiative, the Case Foundation has chosen the 20 winners of Finding Fearless —a nationwide campaign to recognize, reward and inspire fearless changemakers. Twitter: @SwipesHQ ) Full disclosure: Much of the text of this post comes from a press release I received from the Case Foundation.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Foundations and companies often send checks, though sometimes they want to make a deposit directly into your bank account via an electronic funds transfer (EFT). Here’s how that works: A donor sets up a DAF with a bank or community foundation to give their money to nonprofit organizations and get a tax benefit.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Star Wars creator George Lucas is famous for his charitable giving (the George Lucas Educational Foundation is actually a force behind Edutopia ), but what's less known are the philanthropic efforts of the cast & crew of The Force Awakens to help nonprofits like UNICEF. The Art League. Comic Relief. The Harry Potter Alliance.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We want you to learn to master the art and science of fundraising so you can raise the money you need, whenever you need it. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The speakers were Alli Chagi-Starr, who is the Co-Founder of Art in Action ; Ilyse Hogue, the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org ; Melinda Kramer, the Founder and Director of Women's Earth Alliance ; and Reem Rahim, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for Numi Tea. As Britt said, I'm a founder of Art in Action. Not really?

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