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Strategies For Building Sustainable Support For Homelessness Initiatives

Bloomerang

Homelessness affects over 650,000 Americans, yet these individuals often remain hidden from public view. Strategic donor engagement, transparent reporting, and meaningful community involvement create the foundation for sustainable funding that powers long-term homelessness initiatives in underserved areas. Let us know in the comments!

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is the virtual equivalent of moving cash or a document directly from one safe to another, with each of the safe holders possessing the only key or combination to their individual safes. Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin can be sent directly from you to me or vice versa in minutes for a very low transaction fee using an online wallet.

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Community Solutions, a Tableau partner, receives $100M grant from MacArthur Foundation

Tableau

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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It Takes a Village: Using Peer-to-Peer to End Homelessness

Qgiv

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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Win a Sony PS3 and Support Young Homeless People from the UK

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0

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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

I was reminded of Ali’s video last week when I led a class for volunteer managers on creating virtual volunteer roles. Let’s say that every virtual volunteer was mailed a box with replicas of objects from the cart. Other participants created virtual roles with expenses attached, too. The challenge here is the cost.

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More about that Homeless Avatar in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Mensajeros de la Paz with a virtual homeless kid has received enough Money to. The homeless. So we thought about a virtual person with no properties. Have you been able to draw attention to issue of homeless youth?