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How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way (Part II)

The Fundraising Authority

If you’re a homeless shelter and have spent all year talking to donors about how you want to serve more homeless and thus need more money to add beds to your facility, talk about that at the year-end as well. Avoid the gimmicks and the hype. Stick with adding beds. – by the end of the year!” Rule #3: Make Multichannel Asks.

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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

More specifically, if a homeless shelter agreed to provide 100 meals to clients for a donation of $1,000, once the 100 th meal is served the $1,000 would be automatically moved to the homeless shelter bank account. The transaction would then be recorded in a secure and immutable database.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? From a presentation by www.jamkit.com Pre and post-election blog by homeless writer as campaign tactic [link] Greenpeace Ocean Defenders campaign ???weblogdirect and volcom sector adoption. is right for you and your org?

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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.

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The Zen of Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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The Zen of Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important.