DipJar

MAY 10, 2022

Its mission is to rescue homeless/abandoned cats and dogs and provide them with the necessary care until they are matched with a long-lasting family that can provide a nurturing and caring environment. In the case of Pets for Patriots, the Humane Society partners with the local VA to connect veterans with support animals.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

So, building a thriving, successful board of directors is one of the most challenging things an Executive Director (ED) must do. Board match programs in your community that your local community foundation or United Way may offer. Conversely, a toxic, dysfunctional, or low-performing board can destroy your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters. operating; specific projects; capital; endowment; capacity-building; challenge grant; sponsorship, etc.). At another point in time, it may translate to work development programs.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Who they are: United Way of Forsyth County works with local agencies to create effective solutions to challenges facing their community in Winston Salem and Forsyth County. They believe in innovating when it comes to tackling complex issues like homelessness, reading proficiency, and poverty. Not a Qgiv client?

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North Carolina Causes Campaign Marketing 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, 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. At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger. What Were The Results?

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Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

Candid

JULY 19, 2023

With these challenges at play, how did inflation affect foundation giving decisions in 2022 and beyond? We opened our application process to any local nonprofit serving children and families.” “We As a result, nonprofits were hit hard in multiple ways. private and community foundations.

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Foundation Grant Survey Award 93

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? You might still see yourself as a local animal shelter, but if 80% of your programmatic impact reports focus on one cohort of service (in this case, dogs from Tijuana), some of your donors may not feel the same connection to your mission. Are you working with new demographics?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

Despite these challenges, nonprofits still have the power to appropriately respond to these circumstances and ensure that they continue delivering mission-focused results. Although the HUD Exchange’s Continuum of Care focuses specifically on homelessness, other coalitions use a similar framework to address specific issues.

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Measure Culture Arizona Evaluation 52

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 13, 2019

Recognizing that good health depends more on an individual’s access to housing, good nutrition, education, and a safe neighborhood than on their medical care, Kaiser Permanente is rolling out Thrive Local , a digital care coordination platform that makes it easier for its medical providers to connect patients to community-based social services.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That sounds pretty daunting, but Ali, is always up for a challenge so she improvised. The biggest challenge was figuring out how the volunteer would demonstrate the cart objects from home. The challenge here is the cost. She narrowed the decision down to two options. Show images of the objects on a screen, or.

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Roles Virtual Volunteer Demonstration 70

Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Coaches talent challenge. Silent disco.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Your fundraising goal should be reasonable and reachable, while still presenting enough of a challenge that donors will rise to the occasion to help meet it. For nonprofits that address needs in their local community—such as hunger or homelessness—consider running a food drive, coat drive, or toy drive alongside your GivingTuesday campaign.

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Social Media Donation Hunger Local 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. I remember her wrapping up Thanksgiving leftovers and distributed them to homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia. Let me connect some dots. She was also an arts lover.

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Portland Philadelphia NTEN Children 73

Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Participants can download an app to submit photos, videos, and text answers proving that they’ve completed challenges or deciphered clues. Send your participants their challenges or the list of items they need to find, and ask them to send back photos or videos. Haunted Hike.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Contest 98

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. In order to decide on this topic, we asked our community to submit challenges. Kick off meeting with the Impact Labs Climate Action Cohort. Why Climate Justice?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Learn about the challenges that faced your volunteer program then and identify if there are improvements that you could make now. Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. Collaborate with local businesses. View this response as an opportunity.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Lisa Narodick Colton , See3 , is working with a group of homeless organizations to increase awareness about issues and feel grateful for what they have. PeaceWorks Technology Solutions is turning #GivingTuesday into a team building event that supports one of their local clients, as well as the local community.

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NTEN Share Campaign Utah 76

Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. Volunteer challenge. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Hosting 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education. For example, Project Renewal helps homeless people get off the streets. Additional Best Practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. Its mentorship helps prevent its clients from re-entering the foster and judicial system or repeating poverty and homelessness cycles. .'s twenty-five metropolitan areas. Smooth Transition, Inc.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

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. Is the nonprofit facing a specific challenge? What will you do differently this year? Now is the time to make changes.

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Goal Phoenix Arizona Nonprofit 61

Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). The July 2014 TechSoup ‘Youth Impact’ Story Challenge (the “Challenge”).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

that] allows local affiliates to innovate solutions to poverty. Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. Many describe homelessness as being voiceless and invisible. Unconditional Love and Justice.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Many local nonprofits are better positioned than a typical acute care hospital to meet the nonclinical needs of community members. Hospitals are able to increase their grantmaking outlay in better fiscal years and continue to see a positive impact on the community in more challenging years as well. Expand the pie.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Giving Tuesday reported that participants gave $2.47 You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. Try partnering with your local news station to increase the reach of your campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Interestingly, the hackathons varied in terms of their activities and the challenges. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Leonard Library. ReWrite Oakland.

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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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Advocacy Arizona Fundraising Nonprofit 73

Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Conduct a peer-to-peer campaign with food trucks and other local vendors within your community. Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition!

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Fundraising Haiti Teen Campaign 52

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2013

I recently completed a nonprofit internship, and it was a very difficult and challenging experience. For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. The next big challenge was researching how to open an emergency youth shelter. The biggest challenge of my internship was getting the word out and.

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Alaska Causes Americorp Arizona 80

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

-Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I wrote about my experience with the Giving Challenge last spring in the post, 29 Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Conducted between March and July, these surveys revealed that during the early months of the crisis, nonprofits were concerned about financial stability and challenges related to new working conditions. This blog presents several common insights generated through these surveys.

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Rhode Island Impact Turkey Survey 54

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

You want to help the homeless? If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it’s a place for start-ups, artists, and local organizations to promote specific projects in order to receive funding. Once you do that, you get a list of "challenges" to choose from, which are basically just needs that nonprofits have. ASU Lodestar Center.

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Time Giving Arizona Profile 96

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

He's a real pistol: challenging the Lloyd Bank folks to kick money in with him. My good buddy Mel Young of the Homeless World Cup was the evening keynoter: he's got an exciting story to tell. I then had a wonderful tour of local pubs in Edinburgh, and I have at least one photo to remember it by! Govt as a champion of SE.

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