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How the City of Boston Is Investing in the Future of Its Youth and Home

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 3 After Wu was elected mayor, in late 2021, Boston’s Green New Deal came to fruition under her administration.

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks.

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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

The Volunteer Hub

“Volunteers are the life-blood of The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank. We wouldn’t able to achieve our goals without the commitment of our supporters,” said John Bode, Food Center & Volunteer Manager,” The Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. said Melanie McKean, Development Director, Preble Street. “We

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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. Each of these systems develops unique and self-reinforcing characteristics, practices, and vocabularies.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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A special Q&A session

Get Fully Funded

The topic was “4 Simple Steps Simple Steps to Raising All the Money Your Nonprofit Needs.&# We had SO many questions from listeners that we didn’t get them all answered. A: Growing your donor base is a “must-do” activity for ANY nonprofit. We house homeless women and children. Q: How do I increase my donor base?

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Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs for Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

New commercial and development opportunities need to reach the communities most impacted by climate change. He explains, “The hardest thing to do is develop on tribal lands because there’s such a unique aspect to getting consent and getting approval, which has to be communicated back to investors.” degrees Celsius).

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