The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Started by a nightclub promoter tired of an unfulfilling job, charity:water doesn’t even have a marketing team but raises millions annually to give 800 million people the resource they are so lacking: access to clean drinking water. 5) The startup that donates clothing to the homeless as you shop.

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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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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Why did they take the job, and what is their vision for the organization and the people you serve?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. Positive Education Program is a unique organization, originally created as a consultant to area school districts to help them serve their most challenging students.

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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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes. Thank your staff and volunteers for a job well done. That sounds great, right? It allows everyone to see that there are good things happening.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. If you want to help first generation college students, how do you want to help them? Feed people?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children's job prospects as adults. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations. Many of them don't have the clothes required to go to a job interview.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By the way CWPT does an amazing job of integrating traditional direct mail, online and other channels to tell their story, but that is a post for another time, this is about me being “stupid.”). We often carry socks filled with water and energy bars to give to the homeless on Austin’s streets.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

The more they tell you about what matters to them, the better job you can do of customizing an Ask for them that is an exact fit between your funding needs and their philanthropic desires. Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. Understanding them. .

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. Many describe homelessness as being voiceless and invisible. We have all seen huge programs with complicated processes to end homelessness.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

It''s impossible for any organization or business to do a great job being for everyone. We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. Once you’ve pinpointed what you need new volunteers to do, write out “job descriptions” for different volunteer roles to put on your volunteer website. However, some people do.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children''s job prospects as adults. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Photo: The fabu students who participated in the Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area spring break (and me).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. Here's some thoughts of improvement for next year: Must do a better job with data management.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

And if you are new in your governmental role, be sure to spend extra time reading Appendix A, the 100-day action plan for bridgebuilding in your new government job. In fact, as we show in the book, in cases like efforts to reduce homelessness, non-governmental leaders often play a big role in creating public value. Eggers D onald F.

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AFP Blog

JULY 5, 2011

They also participate in Jumpstart Our Youth (JOY) -- the state's most comprehensive youth philanthropy program -- with Jobs for Maine's Graduates students statewide. They also participate in Jumpstart Our Youth (JOY) -- the state's most comprehensive youth philanthropy program -- with Jobs for Maine's Graduates students statewide.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

You see, your mission statement has a job: Keeps you focused and moving forward , engaging in programs that fulfill your mission while avoiding mission creep. Here are some examples of strong mission statements: We thoughtfully guide and fiercely support wonderful students to and through college. And get it?

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

With the support of volunteers, we are able to effectively engage with individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C. The VolunteerHub team did a great job of coaching us through the set-up process and creating a solution that really works for our specific needs and goals.” Volunteers are crucial to the work we do at Miriam’s Kitchen.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual options can be particularly helpful when fundraising for education, as they allow you to reach out to supporters of your students who may be further away, such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and family friends. They also give you a unique opportunity to get the family members of those students to make a recurring donation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Job training for at-risk youth, veterans reentering the workforce, or even homeless populations. And, organizations that provide workforce and job skills training can share easyLearning courses with constituents. The training is available to both your staff, and your constituents. Teach Typing Skills.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 20, 2024

Every day you provide services to your beneficiaries, whether that means caring for homeless pets, tutoring at-risk high school students, or running sports events for the community. How your employees are compensated affects their attitudes about their jobs, which affects their behavior in and feelings about the workplace.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

a cancer patient whom your organization helped, a student whose scholarship your organization provided or a once homeless man whom your organization has housed. It is a subtle way to remind your volunteers that making a fundraising call is the easy part; fighting cancer, quitting school or being homeless is the hard part.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, "Please give this family a place to stay for the night; and why dont you see if you can eliminate homelessness in the meantime?" With goals like this, the leader at the helm is incredibly important, and his or her job satisfaction—including her or his feelings about compensation—is crucial.

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2024

Every day you provide services to your beneficiaries, whether that means caring for homeless pets, tutoring at-risk high school students, or running sports events for the community. How your employees are compensated affects their attitudes about their jobs, which affects their behavior in and feelings about the workplace.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. How many people are impacted by,” you know, “your job or your education?”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

But, overall I felt overwhelmingly fortunate to be in a job, a museum and a community that I loved and furthermore to be afforded the valuable time most of us do not have to devote to further researching, thinking about, reading and discussing the theories that comprise the foundation of my work.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

A single mother who escaped poverty through your job training program. A homeless veteran who got back on their feet after your transitional housing initiative. A student who defied the odds to graduate thanks to your after-school mentorship. Did job training lead someone out of poverty?

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

For example, if your organization is focused on expanding its afterschool programs, you might share how many new students have been reached, improvements in their grades, and more. A homeless shelter starts an initiative to get more beneficiaries into permanent housing and jobs. Pairing data with impactful visuals.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. The Center does a fantastic job of streamlining their content and presenting it in a way that’s engaging, informative, and inviting, right from the homepage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved." I met with people like Erin Potts, the founder of the Students for a Free Tibet concert series.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people. And we just did.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2020

I elected to take a job with my alma mater for two years to complete my degree and recoup my finances before heading off to graduate school. The truth is that my job requires a little bit of all of that and more. A: What “led” me to working in higher education and “why” I’ve remained in the field have two different answers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Developing a diverse work environment has been shown to decrease turnover rates, increase job performance, help organizations exceed their financial goals, and promote creativity, which leads to greater innovation. As high as 80% of people now entering the workforce are non-white, women, or immigrants. Conclusion.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

San Francisco, in a possible step toward a contact isolation program, has begun paying to house people who were homeless in hotels as a measure to reduce the spread of the disease. The open question is whether the United States government, to which we have entrusted the job of keeping us all safe, will do what is necessary to make it happen.

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