Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. At SXSW, there….

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Let them know that you have limited time and will only be writing grants to foundations that closely match your project needs for the coming year. Spend some time looking for grants that were received by organizations similar to yours, as well as seeking out foundations that specifically fund projects like the ones you are working on.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Recently, CTA conducted a study on mobile use by the homeless population of Santa Clara County (where CTA is located). An Opportunity to Learn. What CTA Uncovered.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

First Steps: Learning and Planning As with all big projects, its important to learn all you can about how to fundraise. The answer was obvious: womens groups at churches. A few days later, I got a check from the groups treasurer. And from there, I got requests to speak to other groups. Then, draft a plan. It was a win!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Robert Egger, founder, greeted us and gave the group an orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For instance, charity: water has a 100% model , where every public donation funds sustainable clean water projects, and private donors cover its operational costs. It also simplifies messaging: donors can fund either operations or projects, period. An interactive map pinpoints each project. In 2023, it gave more than $1.7

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See3

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Last week, I joined 21 representatives of homeless service organizations from across Los Angeles at Home for Good L.A. for a social media boot camp led by See3’s Chief Learning Officer Lisa Colton, in partnership with the See3-Kindling Group project @home. social media Uncategorized Video'

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Some of the goals your organizations has for the community and the future are shared by that same community and other groups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. Norwest Venture Partners led the startup’s Series B round, which also included participation from 8VC, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), BOND, Citi Crosstimbers, Ensemble, Fifth Wall, LEN x , Moderne Ventures and Oakhouse Partners. and Mexico.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

Bring large, organization-wide projects and initiatives to life. For instance, look what a mega gift can do for a smaller nonprofit with a vision of launching a housing program for homeless families. It’s interesting to see what some groups are doing with their multimillion dollar gifts.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Robert Egger, founder, greeted us and gave the group an orientation.

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Story Arts Service NTC 66

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Each participant uses a private Chatter group in a secure Salesforce community to capture highlights of them being good at something using video, audio, photos, and text (shout out here to the Appinium team and their awesome products for native media handling and sharing). Qualitative Data Analysis. This is where stuff gets crazy.

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

This month's highlight is by Julia Biedry Gonzalez, Tableau lead solution engineer for the United Nations, and Global Philanthropy Chair for Salesforce’s Latinoforce Equality Group. fight homelessness, expand access to education, and expose injustice and inequity, all using data. Real Life Dashboards - Actuals vs Projections.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The organization offers support and aid in natural disasters and also provides ongoing community programs to address issues such as homelessness and food insecurity. McCleary relied on a group of beta users to test out the dashboard. It’s likely you’ll create multiple iterations of your project as you incorporate user feedback.

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Giving Gift Database Analytics 105

Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

This includes data that SAGE generates from constituent surveys, intake interviews, and focus groups, as well as data from external sources, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the U.S. Analyzing data to ensure program impact and effectiveness With an annual budget of $21.8

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Data New York City Advocacy New York 115

Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I became the volunteer manager at a non-profit, FACETS , that works with people struggling with homelessness and poverty. I was approached by four different groups that wanted to offer service over the same week. Two groups wanted to do one-day projects, and the other two were offering five days of service in total.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The added competition from residents displaced by the fires is likely to worsen housing affordability, increase overcrowding and contribute to homelessness, says Sarah Karlinsky, research director at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. County spend 30% or more of their income on rent.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We put facebook back in it’s place as a tool, explain to our teams that we have a community engagement strategy that includes various kinds of community groups, various types of content, and will use multiple tools. Many of the nodes and groups you don’t know and maybe not even share similar goals.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While donation receipts must follow several standards, well provide tips for customizing your receipts to recognize different donor groups’ individual contributions. Inform donors about the projects or initiatives their contributions will go toward. Describing impact.

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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. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Tableau

MARCH 9, 2022

This month's highlight is by Julia Biedry Gonzalez, Tableau lead solution engineer for the United Nations, and Global Philanthropy Chair for Salesforce’s Latinoforce Equality Group. fight homelessness, expand access to education, and expose injustice and inequity, all using data. Real Life Dashboards - Actuals vs Projections.

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Web Global Nigeria Community 98

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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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

There is also networking within these particular groups. Arizona is quite lucky to have all of these amazing people at the helm while combating issues in healthcare, education, homelessness, and mental health, to name a few. These partnerships and professional relationships have been built because of Generation Next. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

You’ve got to have some social marketing because you have to have some social construct on how we think about these problems, as well as have communication across all the multi-sector groups that are engaged in this. So, by focusing collectively around the chronically homeless we’ve made some wonderful strides.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 16, 2006

Last month I wrote a post, Cocktails and School Supplies , about a fundraising event in Los Angeles that our friend Meg produced to collect money and school supplies for a school Covenant House (a shelter that houses homeless and runaway youth) is opening in Tijuana. Her event raised over $2,000!

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Fiscal sponsorship is common throughout the United States and provides a mechanism for both sponsors and projects to achieve their charitable missions. The project may solicit gifts and apply for grants through the sponsor. The sponsor, in turn, makes available to the project the funds raised for the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

South by Southwest reinforced the true value of connecting like-minded groups in person — particularly in our field. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. Some may exist solely online.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2014

The second year allies led us in two service projects this year. We have chosen to do something about the challenges our world faces, by joining Public Allies and serving those experiencing homelessness, who have a severe mental illness, who are on a limited income or who have physical disabilities.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, an organization that supports homeless families could have an Advisory Board made up of formerly and current homeless people. Assembling a group to travel to one of the organization’s work sites and volunteer. How will communications with the group work? Making an in-kind donation of equipment or supplies.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

When you think about an inkind gift, you may think of stuff, such as bottled water and packaged snacks for events or hotel-sized shampoo and conditioner for a shelter serving homeless families. For example, a homeless shelter in my area was given a piece of property in a prestigious community.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. At SXSW, there….

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Interaction Open Source Houston Homeless 76

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. Their primary mission is to combat a particular disease, disability, or group of diseases to improve and protect the patient’s health.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Our winner in Rwanda Zilencio Creativo is a Kickstarter clone; When asked why the founders built a clone they told us they were unable to put a project on Kickstarter as the legalities state it’s for USA users only. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

There is always a full menu of networking sessions, affinity group meetings, conference panels, activities, and of course, The Day of Service. I got to work with a colleague and provided on-site training for a local environmental group on how to use excel, word, and powerpoint! Every year we also do a group community project.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? If you’re presenting to a group, you can say something very similar, and use these couple of minutes to pass out materials if you have any.

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