Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

The goal is to find alignment between the values you enact and the values the corporation espouses and shares. Those values are the basis for what companies today aim to integrate into their cultures and across their business channels. They may be pursuing affiliation with values they believe will attract new staff.

Homelessness 54

Homelessness Foundations Values Advertising 54

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Yet, too often in our politics and culture, Black women are presented as a monolith. Take for example, Shaquille, a mother in Jackson, MS, who has experienced homelessness. I’ve experienced homelessness, and I don’t want my children to ever worry about their security and be put in the same situation I was.”.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Homelessness 98

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2024

Search for businesses with shared values. For example, explain that you were able to help 500 more people experiencing homelessness in the community because a generous corporate donation allowed you to add more beds to your shelter. Search for businesses with shared values. Highlight the benefits of corporate sponsorship.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Values Construction Homelessness 52

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2024

Search for businesses with shared values. For example, explain that you were able to help 500 more people experiencing homelessness in the community because a generous corporate donation allowed you to add more beds to your shelter. Search for businesses with shared values. Highlight the benefits of corporate sponsorship.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Values Construction Homelessness 52

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 119

Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness Culture 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This will, again, represent a break from the past for some, requiring a change in the culture of “looking in,” to one of “reaching out.” That’s about culture and mindset change and it starts with leadership. Local governments have made a lot of headway in the past decade building up some of these skills.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

NextAfter

AUGUST 10, 2023

They’re saying to the world, “This is who I am because this is the thing that I’m placing value in through my philanthropic gift.” And it just creates a completely different kind of culture within the organization. When asking a nonprofit fundraiser, “What is your value proposition?” An extension of their identity.

Values 97

Values Retention Advertising Culture 97

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Social justice principles hold that inequity and oppression occur at multiple levels: individual, institutional, and societal or cultural. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level. Policy: to address institutional inequity, both within an institution and between institutions.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Instead of using a term like “surplus value”—a Marxist term defining the value labor creates for capitalists—I called it profit. They are making plans that are keeping homeless communities from having housing. For example, I quote Marx and Engels quite a bit, and had been reading Marx’s book Das Kapital. They are making plans.

Governance 89

Governance Insurance Homelessness Poverty 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

Through its iconic mobile showers, the San Francisco nonprofit LavaMae has found new ways to serve the homeless in the absence of more radical reforms of affordable housing. Social enterprises such as car-sharing programs are changing the nature of urban transportation and providing alternative options to individual car ownership.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It prioritizes building personal, social, emotional, and cultural capacities of human beings—instead of irrational consumption. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures.

Collaborations 132

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

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 45

Culture Collaborations Homelessness Communication 45

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

Despite being home to many culturally diverse neighborhoods, the city remains deeply segregated, a lasting effect from decades of redlining. Long Beach is among the nation’s most ethnically diverse cities. Nearly three-quarters of city residents are people of color, with the Latinx population growing the fastest.

Law 98

Law Cultural Diversity Community Development Children 98

iMarketSmart

JUNE 27, 2022

The donor’s original identity (people, values, or life story) must link to the challenge. For example, the crisis prompting the challenge may be a threat or opportunity for the donor’s people or values. The donor’s values support making the gift. One study examined a homelessness charity. But it used a unique approach.[6]

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Homelessness Values 52

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

As I grew into my career and as a community leader, my perspective evolved as I realized there is considerable value in being a person of color in these spaces through opening doors for other minorities and unrepresented groups. Community leaders should not look alike because communities are not homogeneous.

Nonprofit governance and management 130

Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

The Agitator

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A traditional appeal emphasizing the plight of the homeless may not work as well for this group. Especially for cultural organizations , have they been to the museum/opera/library/monument/park or not? I’ve used cats versus dogs repeatedly as an example because 1) it’s simple and 2) it works. What’s your organization’s equivalent?

Homelessness 76

Homelessness Environmental Culture Philanthropy 76

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home. In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The homelessness that happens, the lack of shelter, the lack of livelihood, the lack of security. But it also makes it very difficult to recognize that there’s value in something other than what we can see immediately. We’re contributing to a larger cultural shift as much as anything.

Psychology 121

Psychology Health Activism Public and Social Policy 121

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 20, 2020

With these five steps, you can create a culture of learning within your team. If your vision statement talks about your much-needed homeless housing program, and you plan to raise money for a new shelter through a major gifts drive, then you need to consider what you’ll need to make this happen. Nonprofits hire for passion.

Nonprofit governance and management 94

Nonprofit governance and management Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2015, nine major philanthropies recognized a significant gap in the field: Few national funders were working to address the upstream causes of homelessness and the ramifications of unstable housing on Black and Brown communities. By Jeanne Fekade-Sellassie & Jennifer Angarita.

Collaborations 122

Collaborations Homelessness Philanthropy Foundations 122

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

If you are like most people your organizational culture is: “We never TALK about money other than our financials at the board meeting.” Master Storyteller and Fundraising Culture Change Expert, Lori L. Moments where the grant you hoped for didn’t come through because you couldn’t demonstrate your unique value to the community.

Public and Nonprofit Management 46

Public and Nonprofit Management Foundations Technology Education 46

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

A culture doesn’t like silence. ” What I did in the initial phases is that I reached out to another CEO in another organization who shared the same values with me and we swapped. ” And then both of your job is to wait in what I call the golden moment of silence because he who speaks first loses. But tell the story.

Fundraising 124

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2023

New momentum around racial justice , which, after decades of work by activists, is driving organizations across sectors, disciplines, and geographies—including philanthropy—to grapple with systemic racism and bias in both their external actions and their internal practices and cultures. RE)DESIGNING THE ENTERPRISE.

Philanthropy 105

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Governance Foundations 105