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Help Hurricane Harvey Victims: Where To Donate #HoustonStrong

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Covenant Hous e (helping homeless youth). Greater Houston Community Foundation Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. If you want to set up a fundraiser to help Hurricane Harvey Victims, you can do that on Everyday Hero. Here’s a good list from Texas Monthly of local charities working the relief efforts that you can also support.

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How to build your Nonprofit’s Budget – Collaborate!

BoardAssist

On the other hand, a homeless shelter cannot turn away the needy when the building becomes full. For the homeless shelter, the number of clients is too variable to form the basis of a budget. The homeless shelter budgets expenses by analyzing historical trends and relying on expert predictions of future trends.

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10 Things to Know When Moving To A More ?Capable Software Platform

VisionLink

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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

Bloomerang

Is reminding folks you haven’t solved hunger, homelessness, or poverty a good thing? The same holds true if you survived a natural disaster such as a fire, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or tsunami. Everybody has birthdays… ho, hum. It’s a not-to-be-missed opportunity. Opportunity for what? Is this really something to celebrate?

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Anne Mahlum "Used to run by homeless men each morning. Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. She and volunteer camera crews have taped roughly 3,000 inmate messages." Today, she's running with them, and others, as part of her ' Back On My Feet ' program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

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An Interview with Perla Ni, CEO and Founder of Great Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was the publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review , and we wanted to write a story about how nonprofits were helping the victims. Perla Ni, Ceo and Founder of Great Nonprofits 1. Why did you start Great Nonprofits ? Or after school program? Or elderly center?

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's also one of the worse months for hurricanes and the Red Cross has made it easy to give a donation with your cell phone through its text 2 give program. August: It's the dog days of summer. So, why not give a little something to an organizaiton that supports dogs (and cats), like Best Friends. It's your choice.

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