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Managing Your Operating Reserves During and After an Emergency

sgEngage

Michael Gellman and Paul Preziotti, The Crucial Impact of Operating Reserves on Your Organizations Financial Health and Sustainability. Its hard to choose to put funds into operating reserves when that could help one more person transition out of homelessness.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The top three causes are medical expenses (54%), disaster relief (12%), and education costs (12%). 67% donate in response to natural disasters. ? Of those inspired by social media, Facebook (47%) has the largest impact, then Instagram (23%) and Twitter (20%). ? 63% donate to crowdfunding campaigns that benefit individuals.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. The more is raised, the more impact they can make. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact.

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How to Issue Donation Receipts for Different Types of Gifts

Get Fully Funded

Instead of I and we statements, try to use you to emphasize donors impact on your mission. Additionally, share regular updates with recurring donors about the impact of their contributions. Describing impact. Include a summary of their donations, the date of each contribution, and their total donation amount to date.

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ICON lands $207M Series B to construct more 3D-printed homes after seeing 400% YoY revenue growth

TechCrunch

Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. More than half of those homes have been for the homeless or those in chronic poverty. It also completed a series of homes serving the chronically homeless in Austin, Texas, with nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes. and Mexico. and around the globe.”.

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What Attributes do Nonprofits Need to Build Cross-Sector Collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Department of Housing and Urban Development dropped the bombshell of defunding all but one nonprofit transitional housing provider for homeless families in Maricopa County, Arizona, the local nonprofit, private and government organizations began to scramble (Polletta, 2016). References: Grudinschi, D., Kaljunen, L., Hokkanen, T., Hallikas, J.,

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should You Celebrate Your Nonprofit’s Anniversary?

Bloomerang

Donors care about singular impact. This shows them the impact they will create – this person will get fed – because the donor helped. Ultimately, a well-synched communications program – where the right hand knows what the left is doing — will more successfully connect with donors and demonstrate greater, resonant impact.

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