Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2024

How will their support make a difference in their community? You can donate online, send a check, or scan the QR code below to donate your phone. Over 3,000 people in Combe County are currently facing poverty and homelessness—at least 1,000 of them are children. When crafting your appeal, be as specific as you can.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Volunteers appointed to Advisory Boards can share their professional and personal expertise on everything from programming to the organization’s role in the community. Involving members of the affected community in Advisory Boards is becoming more and more common. Is your focus on becoming a bigger presence in the community?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The target for cell phone apps is largely a mainstream one. Apps for Donors, Not Communities Served. According to a November 2012 Pew Internet and American Life Project report , a higher percentage of African American and Latino cell phone users have downloaded at least one app in comparison to Whites. Apps for Youth, By Youth.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2014

phones and wireless connections) to incent foster care kids — who really want to experience independence! — Because of this, they face a high likelihood of having ongoing emotional difficulties, becoming pregnant, spending time in jail, and remaining homeless. 14lcs Community idea accelerator Leadership' What is Connections?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls. I don’t do this with an expectation of any return–financial or otherwise.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

We are particularly pleased to support those partnerships that weave 2-1-1 operations into a more holistic effort, such as when integrated with elder care, homeless management, or disaster response. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember phone number that connects individuals with resources in their community. With approximately 1.5

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you don’t have their phone numbers, send an email letting them know you would like to call them and ask if they’d be willing to share their phone number and the best time to reach them. Introduce the post with something like: “Today we recognize our local Walmart store for five years of loyal support. Be sure to tag them all!

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building local chapters. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Diverse Goals. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

We want you to tell us how you are using products donated through TechSoup to help the youth in your community develop valuable life skills that will prepare them to take full advantage of their bright futures. The winner will also be a featured story on the Local Impact Map at TechSoupGlobal.org as a Featured Story for all of August 2014.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. Assuredly they are.

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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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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Since then Giving Tuesday has grown into a global movement, inspiring millions of people to get involved in doing good in their communities. You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Team up with local news. How does Giving Tuesday help nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup, builds apps that help communities solve pressing issues. I spoke with Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented LocalFreeWeb at the previous breakfast. A Simple Digital Inclusion Tool. Watch this video to see LocalFreeWeb in action!

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Then, donors can click on the items on your site, “buy them” as a gift, and have them delivered directly to the community members in need. John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. Community classes. House parties. In the last year, the St.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. Emphasize what you will do with the gift and how it will impact the community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community. They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. that Caravan Studios and Twilio.org have co-hosted. Referral Services.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

HealthRIGHT 360 is an impressive and complex organization, the combination of two renowned community nonprofits, Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics and Walden House. Walden House was founded in the Haight-Ashbury district, just two years later, in 1969 and focused on helping runaway youth and the homeless with substance abuse problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000. But given the size of the storm, even their safe haven was not without damage.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Instead of multiple phone calls back and forth, they can just enter their information on your online form and press “submit.” Supporters can simply click on them to “buy” them, and then your organization will send them to the necessary community. Leverages common tools. Switch Up Your Fundraising Language.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s not the same thing to bring awareness to climate change as to be working to provide shelter for the homeless. Monitor social media: Growing social media communities and maintaining them is an essential piece of a robust online presence, and nonprofits aren’t exempt! You can say the same about audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Peter did a strategy consult with a local organization.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

Just realize that a sponsor is definitely going to want to know all about the positive impact your organization has on your community, so annual reports, client stories, and metrics like a donor’s return on investment handy. When they sponsor your event, the local community sees their name and their commitment to philanthropy.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

This section provides detailed descriptions and documentation of how you meet needs in your community. For example, if you run a homeless shelter, you should mention the number of people who are homeless on any given night in your area. Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. Another option, is to sponsor a woman who wants to make a better life some place in the world. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Then move out into the community to groups that support your work like churches or civic clubs. Ask community partners and collaborators for a gift. We write grants, do community assessments and help other organizations provide services in our county. We house homeless women and children. Q: What is my story?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. A thank-you phone call, holiday card, thank-you video, and invitation to a special holiday reception or other event are some ways you can make your donors feel valued.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And we’re going to see what kind of shortfalls there are from a state and local perspective in the coming years because of COVID, but hoping that some of the other federal funds that we’re receiving through ARPA can try to help stop the bleeding a little bit. I’ve seen that quite a bit.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

We should identify a few key community health indicators to focus on." Here are three reasons to find and connect with community-wide sources of data instead of doing it yourself: The data already exists. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I gave my first gift that morning, which was just a supportive phone call to another friend who has MS. We have these little 29 Gift cards that people would tie onto the flowers, and she actually made a couple vases full of those, and took them into a local coffee shop. Now there are organized events happening locally.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I know of a faith-based rescue mission who wrestled with accepting a donation from the local strip club for its domestic violence program. 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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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

That should be one of the expectations of the board members because that is going to give them a true picture of what it means to serve the clients in the community. We did a Halloween event where we served thousands of community kids. And they saw the need of the community of those families that could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

During the session, it was pointed out that crowd sourcing is a way to people, organizations, and communities work together for mutual good, and without competing. We also asked the community to vote and rate the examples. The maps are made by community members. The first layer of preparation was the content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

"It's not how many friends you have on Facebook, it's the depth of connection of our community ties that will keep us together and allow us to have political power together." The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change. He was a very big influence.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

An effective program should be responsive to community needs, have a well-defined scope, and have well-defined realistic operations, including staffing, timeline, and budget. . And they can also be settings, things like schools or homeless shelters. . Or there may be local organizations that have their own databases. .

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