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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

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Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes. When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or with gratitude.” — G.K. Over time, this attitude will become second nature.

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Goal Setting for Your Nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Review the mission statement - cure cancer, end homelessness, provide affordable housing for working families - whatever it is, ask yourself if the programs from last year helped the organization reach its goals. What will you do differently this year? From WHY comes strategic planning and goal setting.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

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Culturally, Flager believes that overall, attitudes differ as well. The lack of affordable housing has also contributed to the dramatic increase in homelessness. Our true business is social good, where the housing can be used for general/veteran homelessness, sheltering refugees and migrant farm worker housing,” Haytham said.

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Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health

Connection Cafe

In contrast, making grants to community nonprofits allows hospitals to proactively honor their community benefit commitments in a directed fashion. Grants offer hospitals a tangible, powerful way to demonstrate their community support. Grants often have a multiplier effect. Charity care is, by its nature, highly reactive.

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

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She saw firsthand the inequalities that existed in the world, including children and families struggling to have food and clothes, the bare essentials we take for granted. When connecting a story to someone without the basic needs we take for granted, a natural connection is created. Take an attitude of fixing things when you see them.

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Got Hope? I Do, in Generation Y

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They'd also had dinner with three Bay Area Ashoka Fellows, and met with Heather McLeod Grant, the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits. My job was to help them integrate some of their experiences into an action plan of next steps towards figuring out how they wanted to make an impact in the world.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society works to improve the lives of homeless and in-need animals across the Ontario region. Keeping it simple and straightforward is a great way to convey a professional attitude and strong principles of stewardship. Learn more about applying for and managing your Google grant. Simplified design.