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Centering communities: Leaning into participatory grantmaking to increase equity 

Candid

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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How to Make a Donor Profile in 5 Easy Steps

sgEngage

“I can’t tell you how many duplicates I have cleaned up because someone entered a prospect without checking first,” said Amy Barker, database administrator for Pine Street Inn , a Boston nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness. Here is a list of types of data you might want to collect, but this is by no means an end-all list.

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How Tech is Enabling Thousands of In-Home Vaccinations for Massachusetts’ Most Vulnerable

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since the beginning of the pandemic, our team has worked closely with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to care for these individuals, including COVID-19-positive homeless and marginally housed residents of Massachusetts at the Isolation and Recovery sites. To address transportation needs, we expanded our transportation reimbursement program.

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Seeking Clarity about the Complementary Nature of Social Work and the Arts

Museum 2.0

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We champion a historic house museum for hosting a soup kitchen, a children''s museum for tackling family wellness in low-income housing, or an arts organization for writing poems with convicts.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yet even despite these obstacles, on the night of the third day after the storm, I welcomed these two climate refugees into my home north of Boston. From there they traversed Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut, and then drove to Boston. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000. How did it happen?

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. May: When I think of May, I think of Mother's Day.

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.