Anedot

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We achieve this through our point-to-point food recovery program, where our staff drivers and volunteer Food Runners collect excess fresh food from businesses, schools, hospitals, and more, delivering it directly to food distribution partners, including homeless shelters, senior housing centers, and after-school programs.

Management

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

Human interest Feature stories can be a great way to highlight the culture of your volunteer program. Or, you could provide journalists with details for your organizations largest annual event, such as a 5K or festival, so community members know when and where the event will occur. Use volunteer recruitment software to stay organized.

Recruitment

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

January Riddle from Arts and Culture Alpine County Partnerships Between Local Volunteers and Businesses Drive Support At My Friends Place, we know it takes a community to help a young person exit homelessness.

Public and Social Policy

Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Public charities also include a wide range of educational organizations (afterschool programs, universities), arts and culture organizations (museums, theater groups), and health organizations (clinics, nonprofit hospitals).

Non-Profits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

Further complicating matters is the highly fragmented social sector, with thousands of worthy organizations tackling deep-seated problems, from climate change to homelessness to protecting democracy. Nor have the cultures of these firms been designed with an inclusion and belonging lens for BIPOC or female leaders.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 16, 2025

Last year, IMLS awarded $266 million in grantsand with the future of the federal agency uncertain, the cultural institutions that depend on these grants, including libraries, also face uncertainty in their budgets, staffing, and community programs.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 28, 2025

But libraries, which are often overstretched and fighting to maintain funding, cant do everything thats needed to address homelessness, especially as the climate crisis worsens already difficult situations. Of course, its more than just the direct impact of weathering a natural disaster that can thrust people into homelessness.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Suppressing a culture is violence. At the time of his death, Neely was homeless, named on the list of 50 people experiencing homelessness in New York who were most in need of help. Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Ghetto housing is violence.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, initiatives that seek to develop the lives of people from homeless communities have discovered how living in a private apartment with no prior requirements can have dramatic effects on unhoused people. The Right Livelihood Foundation recognized Sekem as a blueprint for a healthy corporation in the 21 st century.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 26, 2025

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) conference is scheduled for the area later this year.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

billion in backlogged bills, 90 percent reduced homelessness services, and the denial of support to more than 3,600 adults and 4,200 children seeking refuge in domestic violence shelters. The fallout was devastating: $16.7

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

When people think about nonprofits, they tend to think of food banks, homeless shelters, and disaster relief. Theyre the organizations providing arts and culture, preserving open spaces, ensuring affordable places to live, and helping our kids to thrive and reach their potential. If you dont have this, the economy collapses.[]

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Candid

MARCH 12, 2025

It required them to understand one another’s specializations and cultural contexts, so when constituents showed up on any organizations doorstep, their needs could be recognized and met and they wouldnt have to be sent elsewhere.

Homelessness

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nonprofits are staffed by incredibly competent and dedicated people — experts who understand their work backward and forward, whether it be housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, or supporting these programs through effective fundraising and building sustainable solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.

Culture

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 27, 2012

Watch dog groups often rely on spending and growth data for their analysis, but as Anjali Deshmukh asks, “If an organization could prove to you that they could eradicate homelessness, would you care as much about what they spent on salaries and staplers?” A Simple Picture of How We Give.

Culture

NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Petersburg, Florida, the Museum serves as an active resource in the cultural life of the community and world. Proceeds from the sale of tees (and related car decals) help people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless access the food and supplies they need to keep and continue caring for their beloved pets. Located in St.

Children

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 26, 2021

November 13-21: National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Pop Culture, Events, and News. National Caregiver Month. Mo-vember (men’s health issues). You also have: November 2: Dio De los Muertos ends. November 19: Great American Smokeout. November 16: International Day of Tolerance. November 17: World Prematurity Day.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You also have: November 2: Dio De los Muertos ends November 19: Great American Smokeout November 15-24: National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week November 16: International Day of Tolerance November 17: World Prematurity Day November 20: World Children’s Day November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Homelessness

Selfish Giving

JULY 25, 2011

Shelter Scotland helps people with all sorts of housing problems from homelessness to poor living conditions. But the ones that are should follow Shelter’s lead and tap Foursquare, which just isn’t for nonprofits that are cultural institutions and museums. Not all nonprofits are destinations for shoppers or visitors.

Marketing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

By Logan McDonnell As a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience working in homelessness programs and currently working in homelessness prevention, I’ve often heard coworkers describe how a person in one of these programs reminded them of a close relative or friend.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Pop Culture, Events, and News The New York City Marathon will be held the 5th. Think about sales, bargains, prices, Amazon, mark-downs, malls, Black Friday, close-outs, grocery lists, shopping carts, aisles, cash register, lines, secret shoppers, credit, returns, yard sales, convenience store, coupons, advertising.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 21, 2019

You also have: November 15: Great American Smokeout November 16-24: National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week November 16: International Day of Tolerance November 17: World Prematurity Day November 20: Universal Children’s Day November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Homelessness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

They pressured the company directly, blocking merger deals and forcing executives off the board of cultural institutions, and through their investor base, denying them access to the capital markets. A number of other nonprofits have been focused on reducing homelessness.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 1, 2011

Pop Culture, Events, and News. For example, you’ll find Alltop pages on animal rescue, climate change, racism, homeless, human rights, science, violence prevention, and lots of other topics in between. What about your cause or your work is like. Hard ground softening. Tulips poking through. Animals coming out of hibernation.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Addressing burnout means addressing workplace culture. A workplace’s culture is its brand. Most nonprofits don’t have enough staff to accomplish everything they need to do, especially those that are addressing big, hairy problems: anything from climate change to homelessness to racial justice. Your culture is your brand.

Culture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These are aspects of stories, but they are not the whole picture, and when told repeatedly, they create conditions that make it harder to change systems and culture. As we follow her, we also learn about the systemic issues tied to homelessness and the injustices that result from sweeps taking away people's property.

Homelessness

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

cancer, literacy, hunger, homelessness, etc.) The culture and practice of managing a not-for-profit is always changing. Businesses are made up of people that are also passionate about being involved in their communities or invested in improving the human condition (e.g., billion in not for profit funding?

Marketing

Ann Green

JULY 7, 2020

If you’re working on issues such as affordable housing, homelessness, education, health care, etc, these have ties to racism. Create a culture of storytelling. If you create a storytelling culture in your organization, you can make storytelling the norm instead of the exception. I want to briefly address racism right now.

Homelessness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

To do so, the foundation focuses on improving housing stability, expanding the production or preservation of affordable housing for families, and ending youth homelessness. A new narrative will help change those perceptions. After five years in the field, FHO has learned some lessons about philanthropy and systems change.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 10, 2018

Poverty, hunger, pollution, illiteracy, homelessness, etc. If you are in the arts, it could be the loss of culture. Your enemy could be an actual person, but most likely it will be something more abstract. If you are in healthcare, it could be a particular disease. If you work with animals, it could be animal abuse.

Homelessness

Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Those values are the basis for what companies today aim to integrate into their cultures and across their business channels. At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters. At another point in time, it may translate to work development programs.

Homelessness

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%. Arts, cultural preservation, and humanities – 6%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. Health and wellness (physical and mental) – 12%.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 14, 2018

Shae felt the “crunch” after working on her nonprofit’s annual report because it refers to its clients as “ the homeless.” The communications director then appropriately shared that making note of the cultural history of a community is important for their brand. Now they are fair housing violations.

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

However, the Right has long propagated narratives that shape our society’s institutions and culture—and it requires conscious effort to upend them. Have you included cultural details and experiences? As such, the stories shared by nonprofits and philanthropists too often reinforce the status quo rather than change it.

Poverty

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

BFAS runs the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States and works nationwide to create a time of No More Homeless Pets. The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. Field Museum Online Store. Paul Getty Museum Store. National Geographic Store.

Retail

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. So how do you go about creating a culture of personal gratitude for yourself and for your organization? That sounds great, right? That’s you!

Fundraising