VisionLink

JULY 30, 2010

Those who are hit by a disaster large or small can register on the Safe & Well site, and then their friends and family can search the database and receive information about a loved one''s most recent status.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

that serve the homeless population. Candid made it easy for us to search for nonprofits that serve the homeless and have tax statements on file. So, it was a natural place to turn to for data to use for this research. My colleagues and I randomly chose 200 U.S.-based based nonprofits from the Candid’s GuideStar?that

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A suite of tools, apps, and connectors that helps transform disconnected data into clear, engaging, and interactive visuals, Power BI allows you to pull from an open data source—could be from an Excel spreadsheet or a cloud-based CRM system or a federal database—so you can more easily aggregate, visualize, and interpret your data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

We have to realize that our questioner is asking us a question they don’t realize they are asking; they are asking how a database can help their community! A database! Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. What about a fundraising tool?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Our focus on new media in the digital period also meant that we started to forget about the technology tools we already had in our organization: the hardware, software, databases, servers. There is no reason we should, as an entire sector, have to change the way we operate in order to use a database. Holistic Tactics.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. We also wanted a database that could do more than just store information and provide reporting, but it had to also be user friendly.” .

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2024

The easiest subjects to analyze are individuals in your own database. 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. So, start there.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

Which is a more compelling storyline: “Tornado hits town” or “Tornado strikes, 38 families rendered homeless, property damage estimates exceed $12 million”? Does your donor database keep track of this type of data? Oh, and (most of the time) people trust numbers, statistics, facts and figures. If not, it should.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

charities are devoted to the work of human services like providing food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, care to the sick, and legal aid to the dispossessed. The Idealware survey found that well over half of respondents (65 percent) are tracking their program data with spreadsheets instead of a proper databases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Says Perrone, “We will also look at app users who came into the BFAS fold over time (email database, do they keep giving, etc).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2013

If we receive a $100 cash contribution and enter it into our development office’s software, it needs to be tagged with the donor’s designation, such as "building fund" or "meals for homeless children." A new fiscal year does not mean a new designation: What if things get a little more complicated?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

More specifically, it’s providing content online or in emails (text, graphics, and/or even functionality or links to) that is only visible to a specific audience segment of your database. Let’s say your organization has 3 primary service programs: animals, homeless and youth. Think about it this way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Help us reach our goal Provide a homeless person with a hot meal and a warm bed tonight Fund our budget Find more examples of good and bad Asks here. It’s a way to help them feel important and that they’re more than just a record in your database. Ok, see the difference in a good Ask and a bad one? So se it whenever you can.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Are there actually really any fewer homeless people? But I think the jury is still out, at least from my perspective, on whether or not this sea change in communication has actually resulted in very much on-the-ground social change. Did MoveOn actually manage to help elect someone more progressive? Is the environment any cleaner?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Online Grant Research Databases Grant research databases can help you narrow down your search and with a keyword search, you can find the funders best suited for your nonprofit. Get clear on the type of funding you are seeking. foundation profiles.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

We will provide career services right on site, including career classes, résumé support, and access to a jobs database. It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We These jobs can be accessed via public transportation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 14, 2006

Lately I've been thinking about getting a dog or cat and have been spending too many hours surfing Petfinder , a database of homeless pets. As part of my surfing, I came across the Best Friends Network , a nonprofit network that allows animal lovers to become members, join and create online communities around animal-related topics (i.e

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

One interesting challenge was creating a database of bicycle rack locations throughout the islands. Using tweets' GPS, the database can then track where the rack is. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters. The concept is that people can tweet the @bicyclerack Twitter account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

They checked out the donors’s fb profile, and they could tell that she was in their key target demographic for new $$ donations. When staff research her in their donor database, they discovered she had attended our big fundraiser in Feb. as a first time donor. They sent a thank you email and asked if she’d sent diapers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Searchable databases can be created on websites as well, allowing for Salesforce to serve as the system of record for information such as chapter details. nonprofit dedicated to ending chronic homelessness, needed a custom solution for one-time, recurring, or in-tribute donations. Case Study: Custom integration in action.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

It’s an opportunity to show supporters that their donation went through and to provide additional opportunities to maximize contributions like with a matching gift database. . Is the transaction entered into your donor database automatically? Don’t let this information simply sit in your database.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

They feed the hungry, provide medicine for the sick, shelter the homeless, educate our youth, protect the environment, prevent animal cruelty, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The best part of his job is getting to showcase Blackbaud’s amazing clients and the valuable work they do. .

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

Common features that improve compliance management include: Organized databases. Use CRMs and donor databases that are highly customizable, like Salesforce , to create custom organization systems and reports to make your data easier to retrieve. Fortunately, nonprofits can use several apps and add-ons to help manage their databases.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The NYPD Intelligence Division has mapped Muslim communities, conducted photo and video surveillance, recruited informants, tracked those who changed their names, and generated intelligence databases, according to the ACLU. So when Dandia found out that his friend was an informant all along, the betrayal was palpable.

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Everyaction

APRIL 18, 2018

We’ve seen many creative takes on this approach, but one of our favorites is So Others Might Eat (SOME) is an interfaith, community-based organization that works to alleviate poverty and homelessness in Washington, D.C. Be careful when branding your sustainer program - it isn’t as simple as just making up a name for your monthly donors.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2012

Meals on Wheels and More (MOWAM) is a multi-service organization that seeks to nourish and enrich the lives of the homeless and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living. Needed a more seamless, integrated database that allowed them to enter donations and send acknowledgements quickly.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Your donor may even feel like nobody at the organization really noticed their gift and that they’re just a number in your database. For example, “Your donation of $10 will provide a day’s food and care for a homeless veteran. They may feel like their $10 just disappeared into the abyss, never to be seen again. See the hero language?

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

With the support of volunteers, we are able to effectively engage with individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C. Before we deployed VolunteerHub, I spent around 70% of my day sending emails, recruiting volunteers, and entering data into our Access database. Volunteers are crucial to the work we do at Miriam’s Kitchen.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? We can help you with that. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! VisionLink, Inc. in booth 64.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. And they can also be settings, things like schools or homeless shelters. .

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