Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

No one wants to be treated as a transaction; when the emphasis is on community building, it turns one-time contributors into long-term partners. Strategies for building community Most nonprofits emerge out of a clear community need (think food banks, homeless shelters, health-focused foundations).

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Other times, we talk to our donors through newsletters, e-mails and snail mail letters. The second type of storytelling that your non-profit will engage in, and our focus for this article, is telling the stories of the individual people and groups that are involved with your organization. Rule #2: Make a Direct Ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

By Melissa Russom , a communications strategist who helps nonprofit organizations clarify their brand and message to engage more meaningfully with the people who matter most to them. We trust people more than we trust companies. Social media aims to connect people with people. 2) Choose the right people.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Reacting to a photo of the newly installed leaning rail, some called it hostile architecture that is intended to deter the homeless while disregarding the needs of people with mobility challenges. I can stand up fine most of the time waiting for the train but I’m thinking about the people who can’t stand at all.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A strong operating reserve in a time of crisis helps everyone focus on helping the people who need to be helped. Its hard to choose to put funds into operating reserves when that could help one more person transition out of homelessness. If you can give your organization a long life, you can help more people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

Only 14% of organizations prompt one-time donors to upgrade to a recurring gift during the donation process ( NextAfter ). A pop-up asking a one-time donor to upgrade to become a monthly donor results in a 64% increase in monthly donations ( NextAfter ). One-time fundraisers raise, on average, $222 USD. Mobile Giving.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Your words matter when you’re trying to get people to donate. If you inspire people, you’ll get a gift. If you bore people or confuse them, you won’t. How do you motivate people to take action so you’ll get the results you’re looking for? The right words are critical, especially when your goal is to get people to donate!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The massive size of the units made them more challenging to transport than a single modular apartment at a time, but the configuration helped shrink the time for installation on site.) Less construction time means fewer months of interest payments, do Campo says. It just seems like, OK, well, you did this the first time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and. BFAS runs the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States and works nationwide to create a time of No More Homeless Pets. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Online Catalog. promoting human rights. BeadforLife Store.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter. Junior Achievement :: @ JA_USA.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

First, generative AI is now a viable competitor to traditional search engines, largely without people having to leave their generative AI hosts. In short, there was a time before Google. Second, how people search is now far more fragmented. It sounds like a bad time to be in the getting-clicks business. Nor is it now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days can inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay. 17: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD19.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That is exactly what is demanded of nonprofit social sector leaders who are tasked with solving the most intractable social issues of our time. Nonprofit donations have dropped, aside from a brief rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest data available suggests that rates have dropped below 50% for the first time.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Putting that presentation on Slideshare where the title and the slide material can be indexed for searches means the next time I’m online searching for “important programs to end homelessness in NYC” I find your slides, your ideas, and ways to get involved with your organization. Are you using Slideshare or Pinterest?

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Anything more than that, and people simply won’t want to read it. Assume this e-mail is being sent by the following organization: A homeless shelter in a major US city that serves 1,000s of people per year. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to help an additional 500 people get off the streets. With gratitude, Fred Mertz.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days can inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay. 18: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD18.

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Tableau

APRIL 8, 2021

The $100 million grant from MacArthur will enable Community Solutions to deepen and scale its transformative Built for Zero initiative across the country to build a nationwide movement that demonstrates homelessness is solvable. . Across the entire country, when homelessness occurs, it will hopefully be rare and brief. .

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes resilience so that every time you hear “no,” you don’t let it stop you, especially when times are hard, the economy is tanking, or some other crisis is looming. Not only is asking for donations uncomfortable at times, but with SO many great causes out there to donate to, WHY would someone choose your cause? Y’all.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Throughout the conference, I posted notes from sessions and other highlights from the hallways – and you can get all of the posts from the Nonprofit Times! Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. ” This is how Amber Case opened her 2012 South by Southwest Interactive keynote talk on Sunday, March 13th.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Homelessness is a significant problem in the United States. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ 2021 State of Homelessness report , there were 580,466 people in the United States who were experiencing homelessness in 2020, 30% of which were families with children.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Housing and Homelessness Lead at Tableau Foundation. Housing Connector helps people like Chauncey Williamson , who spent more than two years applying to over 20 apartments, simply to be turned away each time because of a low credit score. Doug Minkler. Senior Manager of Product and Technology at Housing Connector.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Since 1938 March of Dimes has been changing the world one baby at a time. More recently they decided to harness the power of the web and content marketing by allowing people to follow the life of their 2012 national ambassador. He’s the 2011 March of Dimes National Ambassador. Now that’s content marketing in action!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Have people heard of 350.org What is a movement?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

According to NextAfter , only 14% of organizations prompt one-time donors to upgrade to a monthly gift (also known as a recurring gift) during the donation process. The Rainforest Alliance takes it a step further with $75 set as the default and a message of “Most people are giving $75 right now. Please give what you can.”

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Qgiv

MARCH 9, 2022

People often ask, “What’s the best way to end homelessness?” If you’re reading this article, you probably don’t need to be convinced that fighting poverty and homelessness is worthwhile. Altogether, the 2021 Walk to End Homelessness raised over $96,000 for their cause! 3 Successful Peer-to-Peer Events.

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VisionLink

APRIL 20, 2022

Fun fact, each year about 62 million Americans volunteer at their local schools, with NGOs, with disaster preparedness and response groups, and community centers and homeless shelters. Follow-up: What's the average value of a volunteer's time? We believe volunteers are always part of the solution. Answer: Richard Nixon.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You see, most people focus just on the email itself and the subject line is an afterthought. Yet many people who write nonprofit fundraising emails do not spend much time on the subject line, nor do they take the time to learn about the types of subject lines that get results. So take the time to get this right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Many nonprofits deal with difficult subjects—illness, hunger, abuse, war, loneliness, addiction—and it’s often detailed accounts of those subjects that inspire people to give. You also have the people in the stories to consider. How do we tell stories of struggle without exploiting the people who are struggling? .

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This is the time to lead with transformative solidary, focus on equity, and really redesign the nation.”. That allowed us to have a real-time view into what food banks were seeing on the ground so we could property support them and connect them to additional resources,” Feiner says. into structural change. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Most nonprofits know that looking for board members can be time-consuming and frustrating. I’ve been there, on the hunt for people who have the expertise and passion to make a positive contribution to the nonprofit I care about. So I dropped the words homelessness and volunteering from my search. Don’t despair!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2017

The last one is tricky if you are not local to the area, but I’m grateful to have a great network of people who work in the nonprofit sector and can make recommendations. It times like this that I wish I had won that Power Ball 700 million plus lottery so I make a significant gift to many areas. Bayou Animal Services.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

Central Time on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Lever For Change managed MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving initiative which initially was going to provide $1 million to 250 nonprofits but ended up awarding $640 million to 361 organizations for their work with people and in places experiencing the greatest need in the United States.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Lots of people do. Maybe you’re not seeing a lot of return for the time and money you invest in mailing an appeal, so you decide that sending out letters is too old-fashioned to work anymore. People don’t like to work hard to figure out what you want. If your fundraising letter LOOKS hard to read, people won’t read it.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Housing and Homelessness Lead at Tableau Foundation. This grant will go to supporting Housing Connector's ability to scale outside of the Puget Sound region in Washington state, and the technology that supports their staff's ability to help people find housing. Jason Schumacher. Doug Minkler. Kristin Adderson. October 30, 2021.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? – – Too Greedy?

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This is the time to lead with transformative solidary, focus on equity, and really redesign the nation.”. That allowed us to have a real-time view into what food banks were seeing on the ground so we could property support them and connect them to additional resources,” Feiner says. into structural change. “We

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