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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

If you are a homeless shelter, you collect stories from those you have helped in from the cold. If you are a school, you collect parent and student stories. Make sure the person leaves 30-60 minutes open for your time together. Rule #4: Ask Open Ended Questions. If you’re a hospital, you collect patient stories.

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Can Mobile Phones Solve Homelessness?

Tech Soup

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. Assuredly they are. Surprises So Far.

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Tableau Foundation partners reflect on 2020 and data for impact

Tableau

2020 was tragic and heart-opening for racial equity,” says Josh Kirschenbaum, Chief Operating Officer of the racial equity research and action institute PolicyLink. We have to step into this opening and move into an era of reckoning and acceleration around equity and justice that we’ve never seen before,” he says.

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Tableau Foundation partners reflect on 2020 and data for impact

Tableau

2020 was tragic and heart-opening for racial equity,” says Josh Kirschenbaum, Chief Operating Officer of the racial equity research and action institute PolicyLink. We have to step into this opening and move into an era of reckoning and acceleration around equity and justice that we’ve never seen before,” he says.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Mike Smith’s a bit older than the age of your average college student, but he and two other cohorts from Syracuse University (Ian Dickerson and Frank Taylor) have already launched Centscere , a startup that takes your Facebook and Twitter activity and turns it into charitable bucks. Watch the video and be completely inspired to donate here.

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7 Ways to Honor Dr. King’s Legacy on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Saleforce Nonprofit

A career exposure panel with Lehman and Bronx Community College students. She explored the African American experience and the open wounds of racism in the United States. African Americans make up 40 percent of the homeless population despite only representing 13 percent of the general population. Diversify Your Reading List.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

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. After-school violin program receives six new violins, will expand to include younger students . Avoid exclamation points.

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