Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. I trained her staff on how to blog. I like point 5 about interns.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

Is your nonprofit hosting a peer-to-peer fundraising event this fall? A Gift for Teaching hosted a Back-to-School Drive in the form of a peer-to-peer fundraising event. We love this particular example of peer-to-peer fundraising because it makes it clear you don’t need to host an elaborate event to make use of this fundraising model.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The new series, which is hosted by best-selling author Baratunde Thurston , just wrapped up its first season with much fanfare — Force Multiplier ranks in the top 5% globally for the most popular podcasts. Homelessness doesn’t always mean someone lacks a community, nor does having a home mean someone feels safe.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The examples above represent a much larger body of work, driven by our partners and hosted on the Hub, that helps communities fight racism and support more equitable education, economic power, justice, political power, and public health in America. National Alliance to End Homelessness is also focused on this societal issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2013

He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. By Ben Duda. Last summer, I met a young man in Arizona named Kyle.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The examples above represent a much larger body of work, driven by our partners and hosted on the Hub, that helps communities fight racism and support more equitable education, economic power, justice, political power, and public health in America. National Alliance to End Homelessness is also focused on this societal issue.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2021

Another idea could be to ask for support to provide water, shelter, or life-saving medical care for the homeless who are impacted by the heat. Summer is a great time to host a local concert, game night, movie night in the park, or another fun event. Plan a 24-in-24 campaign. . Plan a community event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

The government run “Remand Houses” are shelters for homeless youth who are runaways, orphans, facing domestic violence at home, or too young to go to jail for a crime. We did visit another one of his projects at a “Remand House” in the small town Madikeri about 20 kilometers from his farm. Others may donate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

So why do we call people experiencing housing instability “homeless”? It also has one of the highest rates of people experiencing homelessness in the country. Here’s how the experts that host Baratunde Thurston spoke to on this week’s episode are leading the conversation. Few of us define ourselves by the structures we live in.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In-Kind Gift Donation Receipts Whether you run a food bank, thrift store , homeless shelter, or disaster relief organization, any nonprofit that collects physical items (or accepts in-kind services) must know the differences between cash and in-kind donation receipts.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

It appears as though a homeless man living in our hillsides with a criminal past has planned out a wild rampage,” read a post on the association’s Facebook page just after 6PM. “We We cannot take the risk of allowing more homeless in a neighborhood with such a fragile environmental landscape.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

With the big holiday charitable giving season just around the corner, there's a host of cause-related giving campaigns waiting in software launch and nonprofits gearing up for their end-of-the-year efforts. Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people.

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Tableau

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this year, we hosted our first virtual Tableau Foundation Summit to bring together our community of non-profit data leaders. achieve the reality of zero homelessness with their data-driven response. Data-driven insights are crucial tools for improving the world we share. Charting a digital future.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

The first 15 grantees supported communities of color, immigrants, seniors, children, and the homeless, among others. Transparency and responsiveness: We ensure clarity about our funding by hosting annual information sessions and offering office hours before application deadlines. Over 10 weeks, we distributed 181 grants totaling $4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation conference hosted by Charles Lee. Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. Charles Lee It's conference season and I will be on the road at various conferences this week and next. So expect some live blogging, and reflections. The description: The !deation

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This can include travel expenses for events, costs for hosting workshops, or other operational expenditures. For instance, a corporation might offer grants to organizations addressing homelessness, education, or environmental sustainability within the communities they operate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 23, 2012

Nonprofits fight poverty, provide great venues for art and music, challenge homelessness, help organize civic life, promote the common good and a host of other functions that puts human community and the common good before profits and a narrow band of investors.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Partner with a corporate sponsor or a major gifts supporter to host a matching gifts drive. Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Matching gifts drive. Virtual event fundraising. Virtual trivia night.

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Greater Giving

JULY 19, 2021

Use a mobile bidding platform to host your auction so guests can bid on items anywhere on the green, at any time during the event. An animal shelter might give homeless dogs some outside time and put a pup at each stop to encourage breaks. Hold an auction in conjunction with your golf tournament!

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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.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Invite your board to participate in these easy and impactful ways to advocate for your mission: Host behind-the-scenes tours. Serving as a strong advocate means making the most of personal networks and influence to reach decision-makers and being an influential voice in conversations with those decision-makers.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

She saw late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel turn his show’s backlot into a donation center. The Largo, an intimate nightclub featuring A-list comedians, hosted benefit performances. .’s new CEO took the helm at the charity that uses entertainment to combat poverty.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. I was amazed not only by her energy and intelligence but by her simple, transformative goal: to end homelessness. Monica is trying to reposition her organization as a social justice organization working on solutions to end homelessness.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We champion a historic house museum for hosting a soup kitchen, a children''s museum for tackling family wellness in low-income housing, or an arts organization for writing poems with convicts.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. By evolving our goals in this way, we create opportunities for other organizations, other service providers, as well as community members to collaborate with us toward actual change.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But asking someone, especially someone who is already in a vulnerable situation, to share what is typically a deeply personal and sensitive story can create a host of ethical dilemmas. Check out this “Storyteller’s Bill of Rights” created by the PSU Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative. ?

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

When you ask , you’re not asking for yourself “but for Maria, a trafficking victim; Alan, a homeless veteran; Rover, an abandoned dog; or Aiden, a student with cancer. Could they host a friendraiser “house party?” Lead an online peer-to-peer fundraising campaign?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Haunted houses are a staple of the Halloween season, so why not cash in on this classic spooky experience by hosting your own haunted house? While you’re searching for a haunted house to partner with, consider hosting your event at a haunted house that’s also willing to be your partner in a matching gift drive. Ghost story contest.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Host a Dinner Event. When your nonprofit hosts any campaign, one of your primary concerns should be retaining your supporters for the long-run. For example, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide food and supplies for the homeless might create a registry with nonperishable foods, shower products, vitamins, and other useful products.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

They've kindly given us permission to host this stream of a conversation between Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer and his wife, Janus, about how Dr. Greer started working with Miami’s homeless. You may have heard one of their recordings on weekly broadcasts of NPR's morning edition. with roots in FDR's Works Progress Administration.

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Tableau

MARCH 29, 2021

Every year that the Tableau Foundation team has hosted the Tableau Foundation Summit, we have chosen the event theme thoughtfully. Learn firsthand from Community Solutions how their revolutionary approach to visualizing homelessness at individual levels in cities is helping end homelessness. . Jason Schumacher. Kristin Adderson.

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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. Host an intimate dinner party at their home and ask their friends to give. Another way members can raise money is hosting cocktail parties or other types of gatherings in their homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2011

On Saturday, May 7, team members decked out their dogs in custom ReadyTalk collars and leashes and joined 10,000 other pet lovers to help the Dumb Friends League help 25,000 homeless pets this year! ReadyTalk's Charitable Contributions Committee played an important role in the fundraising.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

Twenty years ago, I was building computer training labs in homeless shelters with no hardware budget. I developed a small refurbishing operation with a bunch of homeless guys who were much better at fixing things than I. TechSoup has just posted that set of free comprehensive refurbishment how-to guides.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Another resource roundup comes from Kivi Leroux Miller , who hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival, themed, ''Getting Along with Others'' in the nonprofit world. Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness.

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