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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Combatting increasing hunger: Feeding America and World Food Programme. Image credit: Feeding America. Our partners at Feeding America and the World Food Programme have seen firsthand how the pandemic has affected hunger in the U.S. Over the last year, Feeding America saw demand increase 60% across its network of 200 food banks.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Combatting increasing hunger: Feeding America and World Food Programme. Image credit: Feeding America. Our partners at Feeding America and the World Food Programme have seen firsthand how the pandemic has affected hunger in the U.S. Over the last year, Feeding America saw demand increase 60% across its network of 200 food banks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

for poverty, hunger and homeless advocacy and change. Maureen Mayer is the Finance, Information and Technology staff person at The Cooperative Feeding Program in Ft. s largest food pantry and community kitchen, and they do so much more than just hand out turkeys on Thanksgiving to the homeless. Lauderdale, FL. It's the county???s

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

I mean something along the lines of “Help us feed and shelter 100 dogs this winter!” Here is a sentence structure you can work with when creating impact goals: Help us ACTION (such as serve, build, house, feed, educate, etc.) AMOUNT NOUN (such as animals, people, homes, meals, etc.) by CALL TO ACTION ! For example: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2017

Covenant Hous e (helping homeless youth). So, I’m donating there as well. There are many more local nonprofits, focusing on animals, elderly, children, and more. There are many more local nonprofits, focusing on animals, elderly, children, and more. Here’s a list of suggestions from people in my network: United Way of Houston.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Feeding America ’s Food Insecurity dashboard was met with excitement and an eagerness to engage with the data from their network of 200 food banks. Feeding America identified racism in the drivers of food insecurity. National Alliance to End Homelessness is also focused on this societal issue.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Feeding America ’s Food Insecurity dashboard was met with excitement and an eagerness to engage with the data from their network of 200 food banks. Feeding America identified racism in the drivers of food insecurity. National Alliance to End Homelessness is also focused on this societal issue.

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Tableau

MARCH 29, 2021

For example, to see a topline count of homeless people in a city, but then go beyond that, and see every individual and their unique circumstances—from race to veteran status and how long they have lived without consistent shelter. Our theme was “Visualizing Every Person: How Disaggregated Data Can Build a More Just World.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2011

What am I going to feed the kids for dinner? we also have individual concerns that are more outwardly-focused (Why are there so many homeless people on the street these days? Hand out money to homeless people they see on the street (which may help a little bit in the short term, but won't reach many people in need).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Yet, we have found the strength of our team sits beyond our domain expertise of community feeding, and into our ability to serve as a facilitator and mediator between diverse stakeholders in San Francisco. Jacob leads SF New Deal’s service operations in community feeding and the recently launched small business support service team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So when you make your ask, you’re shouldn’t be requesting that a donor help your specific group but rather help with your end goal, whether it be saving wildlife, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless etc.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

Instead of serving five hundred students or feeding 15,000 people you could triple or even quadruple the numbers. For instance, look what a mega gift can do for a smaller nonprofit with a vision of launching a housing program for homeless families. Provide the funds needed to accelerate your mission. Kick-start your endowment.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

If you don’t, well, you will have wasted a good opportunity to connect with people, feed their desire to do good in the world, and raise much-needed money for your cause. For example, an animal shelter might use an offer like: “For just $6.20, we can provide a day’s worth of food, shelter, and medical care for a homeless dog or cat.”

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? We want to figure out how to do a better job letting people know who we are and why we matter in a way they’ll listen. It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. We paint “nonprofits” in broad strokes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

There's the "program" side that wants to tell you all the amazing ways your programs help save homeless pets, feed the hungry, find cures, protect our children, or empower women. Let's face it: nonprofit websites often suffer from multiple personality disorder. There's the "events" side that must sell tickets.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

Boulder Food Rescue provides food to homeless shelters, working-poor families, schools, charities, low-income housing cooperatives, and other organizations in need. food waste by just 15 percent could feed more than 25 million Americans. Growing a Movement. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, reducing U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Compelling mission (like feeding the hungry or housing the homeless). They are things that you have going for you that you can leverage in your plan. Here are some examples of nonprofit organizational assets: . Large donor base. Incredible organization name recognition (like Habitat for Humanity). Well-known staff or Board members.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. For example: “Your $50 donation will help feed 5 puppies in our shelter for an entire month.&#. Follow these five tips and you will be on your way to increasing open and click-through rates and more importantly - raising more money for your nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Here are some examples of nonprofit organizational assets: Compelling mission (like feeding the hungry or housing the homeless). As an organization, you have assets that you can leverage in your fundraising plan that can make your case for support stronger. Large donor base. Well-known staff or Board members.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

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? Do your beneficiaries have access to medical care once a month? Does your organization provide a meal?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

We work to end the cycle of homelessness for families in our community. We feed the hungry today while building a healthy, hunger-free tomorrow. The common thread is feeding people. Or we feed ? If you don’t believe hunger can be eradicated, how long before you burn out on feeding people day in and day out?

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Tableau

MARCH 29, 2021

For example, to see a topline count of homeless people in a city, but then go beyond that, and see every individual and their unique circumstances—from race to veteran status and how long they have lived without consistent shelter. Our theme was “Visualizing Every Person: How Disaggregated Data Can Build a More Just World.”.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

With thousands dead and more now homeless as a result of these earthquakes, it’s imperative that relief organizations mobilize quickly to help stabilize the situation in Turkey and Syria. Feed the Hunger, Inc. The devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have left massive casualties in its wake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Hundreds of thousands are now homeless. In addition to donating, I've also put the fundraising widget in my side bar, sent tweets out to my network on Twitter, distributed it in my friend feed , posted it on my Facebook profile and added to Flickr. The media reports are horrific. That took me like 15-20 minutes. Campaign for Burma.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2005

Homeless Nonprofit via Brent Gaylor: "We have a site that is currently in beta [link]. Right now, users can't submit their own videos and there are no RSS feeds, but. A few folks responded to my query of the vlogging community , a community that hopes to spread vlogging far and wide. " (Hmm.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Or, "Thanks to you, we were able to feed x number of people this Thanksgiving". Homeless Prenatal Program 20 Years in Action - thank you video. This can be as simple as a Facebook post or tweet that says, "Thank you to all of our supporters. We were able to raise $x this holiday that will help us do x." Do you have photos?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Go "Live" Some of best opportunities to drive traffic to a blog come when you use it as a "live update" feed. For instance, you could feature a video of someone who once was homeless but now is a proud homeowner. Yet another could be a photo gallery of newly built homes after a disaster.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2014

Recently, people taking the Plunge for Landon have been popping up on our social media feeds. This idea can be expanded to include whatever crazy act you want: Hot Tamales for the Homeless, Cartwheels for Cancer, Trampoline Jumping for Toddlers—or any alliteration campaign fits your cause. When is a donation not a donation?

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

For example, if you can explain that $500 will cover the cost of feeding one person for six months at your homeless shelter, you are more likely to get donors at that level. Many nonprofits have not yet broken down their expenses into these bite-sized donation amounts.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 5, 2017

She says this is because “your major gifts prospects don’t simply give money—they save lives; they feed the hungry and house the homeless; they educate children; they help cure diseases—they make the important work of your organization possible. Donors are so much more than simply ‘donors.’

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

You’re asking people to help you feed hungry families or save animals or provide scholarships for at-risk youth. Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? Use ADJECTIVES!

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

One clear way to do that is to include information about impact in your donation tiers. There are so many ways to describe impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Are people more compassionate to animals, more generous towards the homeless? Their team also leads attention campaigns, informed by data and inspired by online conversations. As nonprofit communications professionals, it can feel impossible to measure some of our most vital impacts. Will hunger ever gain Beiber-like prominence?

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BoardAssist

JUNE 17, 2014

They feed the hungry and house the homeless. Stop thinking of your donors as ATM machines and really focus on them as people. Think about what they do for your organization. They don’t simply give money. They save lives. They educate children. They help cure diseases. Donors are so much more than simply donors.

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