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How to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s Cultural Competencies

NonProfit PRO

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.

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2023 Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

NonProfit Leadership Center

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.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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How to Tell Real Stories About Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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What’s trending? Top subject searches in Candid nonprofit profiles 

Candid

In February, bucking end-of-year trends, none of these human services sub-categories were searched more often than the arts and culture sub-categories listed above. For example, arts and culture groups saw month-over-month increases of 111% in January and 61% in February.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

One success story is in homelessness prevention; AI-powered predictive analytics can help identify individuals and families at risk of homelessness, allowing social workers to intervene early and provide targeted support.

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