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Steal this E-Mail! A Sample Year-End Fundraising E-Mail for Your Non-Profit

The Fundraising Authority

Assume this e-mail is being sent by the following organization: A homeless shelter in a major US city that serves 1,000s of people per year. Dear Joe: Thanks to you 2,349 men, women and children had a warm place to stay and a hot meal to eat this year. She lived with her children at our shelter for 7 weeks. Executive Director.

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The government run “Remand Houses” are shelters for homeless youth who are runaways, orphans, facing domestic violence at home, or too young to go to jail for a crime. Remand House staff and director (right). I got to observe the director in action. The director told him to report it to the police.

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MacArthur Offers $100 Million For One Good Program

The NonProfit Times

The competition is open to organizations and collaborations working in any field, anywhere in the world, according to Chris Cardona, MacArthur’s managing director, discovery, exploration, and programs. So far, nine seasons of the television show Ahlan Simsim have reached more than 27 million children across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Tableau Foundation partners reflect on 2020 and data for impact

Tableau

“There’s been a perfect storm of increased demand, declines in donations of food, and disruptions to the charitable food assistance system’s operating model,” says Christine Feiner, Feeding America’s director of corporate partnerships. Keeping the spotlight on homelessness: Community Solutions. Image credit: Community Solutions.

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Tableau Foundation partners reflect on 2020 and data for impact

Tableau

“There’s been a perfect storm of increased demand, declines in donations of food, and disruptions to the charitable food assistance system’s operating model,” says Christine Feiner, Feeding America’s director of corporate partnerships. Keeping the spotlight on homelessness: Community Solutions. Image credit: Community Solutions.

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Centering communities: Leaning into participatory grantmaking to increase equity 

Candid

The first 15 grantees supported communities of color, immigrants, seniors, children, and the homeless, among others. We streamlined the application process, eliminated the written reporting requirement, and, 18 days later, awarded the first round of grants in Greater Boston. Over 10 weeks, we distributed 181 grants totaling $4.5

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Involve the entire team in the fundraising effort – everyone from the cleaner to the director should be involved in giving and raising funds for the campaign. 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%).

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