Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This may involve coordinating with your local government to reserve a park or close off certain streets. In-Kind Donation Drive Nonprofits like homeless shelters and food banks often see an increased need for their services in the winter months, and an in-kind donation drive is the perfect opportunity to gather needed supplies.

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Anedot

MARCH 11, 2025

During that time, we’ve refined and optimized our processes to offer a unique and highly impactful service to those living homeless while housed. Develop and manage relationships with key donors, community contacts, nonprofit directors, and grant makers in the homeless/social service area. Fundraising & Development: a.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2025

That kind of parent engagement isn’t just helpful—it’s nonprofit governance in action. They de-emphasize governance and upkeep rules, instead centering their collective efforts on community building. Hurricanes, Homelessness, and Holding On Like many Floridians, the 2024 hurricane season upended Karen’s life. “We

Food 52

Food Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans into control of every branch of the US national government, that question was definitively answered at a private, non-political gathering of philanthropic foundation executives and their communications officers. Banks aspire to build wealth.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2025

These groups include people living with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, people with low or no incomes, young people (especially those labeled as “at risk”), elderly community members, and individuals engaging in crimes or those who have been formerly incarcerated. Additional reference information available here.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 6, 2025

On the other hand, an organic strategic plan deals with handling an external threat, such as economic shifts, changes in government policies or general decreases in giving. For instance, perhaps the heating system breaks in one of your organizations homeless shelters during a winter storm. Organic strategic plan.

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Homelessness Recruitment Governance Philanthropy 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

And homelessness is rising. A recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report identified 771,000 homeless people in January 2024, a record number that was 18 percent higher than the previous year, which in turn marked a 12 percent increase over 2022. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

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Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

From pausing research on cures for childhood cancer to closing homeless shelters, halting food assistance, reducing safety from domestic violence, and shutting down suicide hotlines, the impact of even a short pause in funding could be devastating and cost lives, she added, noting that thousands of organizations could be affected.

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Civil Society Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Law 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

Some problems—like homelessness—are largely linear in nature: They are the sum of a discrete set of human stories. Let us invest in new forms of strategy and governance that position humanity for the planetary challenges to come. It achieved something more meaningful: immortality of impact. Math and morality demand action.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Medical Foundations Homelessness 52

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 65

Public and Social Policy Universities Collaborations Law 65

Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The memo referenced Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) this umbrella term refers to organizations or corporations that operate independently of government and do not operate to make a profit (although used more commonly for organizations operating outside the U.S.). million jobs, nearly 10% of the non-government labor force.

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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.

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Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance 96

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As it becomes increasingly evident that high-ranking elected officials, like Trump, are uninterested in addressing the myriad ways poverty violence leads to early deaths , organizations providing critical social services will play an even more crucial role in helping people to access the resources they need when the government falls short.

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Poverty Medical Insurance Healthcare 122

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 21, 2025

The two would go on to co-found Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries , an organization dedicated to supporting the most marginalized individuals: homeless queer and trans youth. The Pushback Against Erasure Today, trans women of color continue to face elevated rates of homelessness , violence , and other types of discriminat ion.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This focus on living with dignity creates a broad scope for innovations in the dimensions of health and well-being, education and skills, economic activities, and governance. These economic enablers were then expanded into other dimensions.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The email informed the nonprofits, which provide critical intervention services for family, domestic, and dating violence, that the grant orientation was canceled, effective immediately with no reason given, and that the government office had been instructed to refrain from public speaking engagements, including communication with the nonprofits.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

The administration has threatened nonprofits with revoked tax-exempt status, and is pursuing civil and even criminal investigations of nonprofitsnot for any proven wrongdoing, but for work prioritized by local communities that is at odds with the administrations ideology. “These actions arent about government efficiency or about reform.

Governance 104

Governance Nonprofits Law Health 104

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Much of this funding comes in the form of government grants or contracts for nonprofits providing vital services and programs essential to preserving the safety net in their communities. When people think about nonprofits, they tend to think of food banks, homeless shelters, and disaster relief.

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Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise 52

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 30, 2024

San Francisco's Tipping Point Community pooled big private money to halve chronic homelessness in five years. A new study finds the effort failed to reach that goal, but lessons for philanthropy-government collaborations are rich. million on 32 programs between 2017 and 2022 aimed at halving chronic homelessness.

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Homelessness Collaborations Governance Philanthropy 359

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I saw this tweet from Mark Horvath of Invisible People and We Are Visible via Facebook yesterday: I followed up on Facebook with Mark and he said he couldn’t come up with any good examples of agencies that serve the homeless who actually had good content directed at homeless people on their websites.

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Homelessness Technology Food Governance 214

Candid

JANUARY 26, 2022

The response was clear: In that moment, our donors were focused most on hunger and homelessness in the United States, two interwoven problems that have been greatly exacerbated by the ripple effects of COVID-19. . The severity of the hunger and homelessness crises varies by region, state, and community.

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Homelessness Charitable Organizations Food Collaborations 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

America’s homeless response system has been called “the emergency room of society,” conjuring images of a space where the focus is on urgent intervention—finding shelter or managing encampments—rather than trying to prevent crises from happening in the first place. Housing is the solution to homelessness.

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Homelessness Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 112

NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 20, 2023

Laura Petitt School-to-Work and Big Futures Coordinator III, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Meet Certificate in Leadership Class of 2023 Alex Strieder, Housing Stabilization Manager, Homeless Leadership Alliance of Pinellas Amanda Griffin, Executive Director, Children’s Dream Fund Amber Nixon, Manager of Outreach & Advocacy, Florida (..)

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Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Homelessness 247

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She went to Uganda where she lived and worked with an NGO on strategic planning and board governance. I was assigned to Starting Right Now for my project,” Erin says, “which is an organization that exists to solve generational poverty by ending homelessness for students. Erin took some time off from practicing law to travel.

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Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Nonprofit Management 239

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 132

Homelessness Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But leaving aside this important point, which has a lot to do with the original intent and governance of a given platform, it is hard to argue that platforms are not an effective and efficient vehicle for scale. To date, there are only a few examples of purpose-driven organizations adopting platforms successfully.

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Homelessness Governance Technology Activism 130

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Today’s guest, Kathleen Kelly Janus, shares her experience leading impactful collaborations between government, private companies, and nonprofits to tackle challenges like homelessness and recidivism. Have you ever wondered how public-private partnerships can help solve large-scale social issues?

Governance 52

Governance Homelessness Collaborations Nonprofits 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2024

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

Public and Social Policy 120

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Collaborations Leadership 120

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 18, 2019

For example, you don’t “have a homeless shelter;” you “provide warmth, security, and stability to people in distress.”. Could it be the government? Remember to think about benefits, NOT features. Make a list of how your offerings make people’s lives or the world better. Simply listing what you do is less effective. Another nonprofit?

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Values Homelessness Production Nonprofits 154

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages—primarily for the well-to-do. Now, most government housing funding is spent on subsidizing mortgages —primarily for the well-to-do—and residential land is zoned for single-family homes and suburban sprawl.

Public and Social Policy 143

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 143

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. From Experimentation to Diffusion of Urban Innovations The innovative role of dynamic cities has been referred to as government by experiment.

Civil Society 120

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Construction Governance 120

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 111

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

Those people could be government officials, business leaders, the media, or other leaders in the charitable sector. A youth services nonprofit working with government agencies to use a public building for a youth program.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Education 115

The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Many non-profit organizations rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to round out their fundraising efforts. Many state governments offer similar online resources, as do national governments outside of the United States. They may be helpful, or not, but it never hurts to ask.

Non-Profits 64

Non-Profits Homelessness Governance Foundations 64

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. Related Links: Social and Mobile Media Webinars for Nonprofits and Government. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. National Council of La Raza :: @ NCLR.

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Manufacturing Associations Energy Homelessness 105

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility. Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. How long will terms be?

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