Build a Bridge from Homelessness to Hope
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 7, 2023
In 2011, Covenant House saw the need for a technology that could assist their work and empower them to provide more and better support to their communities.
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 7, 2023
In 2011, Covenant House saw the need for a technology that could assist their work and empower them to provide more and better support to their communities.
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.
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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 Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Eden Stiffman San Francisco The effort hasn’t reached its goal to reduce the city’s chronically homeless population by half, but it helped galvanize new ways of working and expand the set of solutions to address a seemingly intractable problem
Selfish Giving
MARCH 15, 2012
We discuss the uproar at this year’s SXSW over one agency’s deployment of the homeless as human wifi for the technology laden hordes that descended on Austin. New York Times: Use of Homeless as Internet Hot Spots Backfires on Marketer. Huffington Post: ‘Homeless Wi-Fi Hotspots’ At SXSW: The Real Story (VIDEO) [By Mark Horvarth, InvisiblePeople.TV].
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
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. If you know of an agency that serves homeless people with good content for that clientele on their website, please share in the comments!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
By M.J. Prest. Also, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $75 million to boost enrollment in higher education among students in Washington State, and the ClimateWorks Foundation will give $21.5 million to address fertilizer's effect on climate change, food security, and energy
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 8, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for nonprofits, especially organizations that work directly with vulnerable populations, like Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, the oldest and largest homeless shelter in Philadelphia. Hunger/Homelessness
Selfish Giving
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
Maggie gets an A+ for her latest effort: a regional cause marketing program to support the Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless, Inc. Hodges Management Company, which owns the local KFCs, KFC/TacoBells and DQ Grill & Chills, approached the Housing Authority about doing something to help the homeless this holiday season. Thanks to Maggie, they came up with a great campaign: Dishing Out Meals: Fighting to End Hunger & Homelessness in Our Community.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 14, 2022
Hunger/Homelessness Lillian D. Share Our Strength, a national anti-hunger organization has appointed Lillian D. Singh as its new Senior Vice President of Family Economic Opportunity.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JANUARY 23, 2018
The post How a Homeless Shelter Used Facebook Live Video to DOUBLE Results on Giving Tuesday appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Earlier this month, I put a call out to nonprofits communicators asking them what worked for their organization on Facebook in 2017. A tactic or tool that they would use again in 2018. A day later, Facebook Zero happened.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JULY 10, 2012
Mark’s done an incredible thing: he’s empowered the people who are often the most powerless in our communities — the homeless — via social media to tell their own stories, in their own voices. has leveraged the power of video and the massive reach of social media to share the compelling, gritty, and unfiltered stories of homeless people from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. If you don’t know Mark Horvath , you should.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
APRIL 30, 2015
We love supporting our customers with great online fundraising tools and in real life: this weekend we’ll be putting on our running shoes and hitting the trails for the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project’s annual Defenders of Play 5k. Meet Homeless Children’s Playtime Project. Children experiencing homelessness often lack access to safe places to play in shelters and transitional housing.
NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Awards Hunger/HomelessnessAtul Tandon may have started his career in the for-profit world, but his decision to serve the world’s extreme poor has led to NonProfit PRO recognizing him with 2021’s Lifetime Achievement award.
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
To most of the people that knew him at the end of his life, Richard was just a nice homeless man. You see, this homeless man had retired from a successful career. Do you remember Jean Preston, the unassuming librarian who’d amassed an $8 million estate ? Or Helene Whitlock Alley, the $100 donor that bequethed $7.3 million to a diabetes group. Well here’s another entry in the never underestimate anyone category: Richard Walters.
Selfish Giving
AUGUST 15, 2018
140 businesses partnered with Pearl Jam to raise millions for Seattle's homeless. ??Why Thanks to everyone who shared my newsletter with friends and colleagues last week. A special thanks to those people who wrote to tell me they are rabid fans !! I'll be updating you in a couple weeks on my progress! I had to apologize to my mom last week. After taking her to the hair dresser I didn't have time for lunch. That fine," she said. But pull into Burger King because I'm craving a Whopper."
Fundraising Coach
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
To most of the people that knew him at the end of his life, Richard was just a nice homeless man. You see, this homeless man had retired from a successful career. Do you remember Jean Preston, the unassuming librarian who’d amassed an $8 million estate ? Or Helene Whitlock Alley, the $100 donor that bequethed $7.3 million to a diabetes group. Well here’s another entry in the never underestimate anyone category: Richard Walters.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Mark used to be homeless, and now he does all kinds of amazing things for the homeless, including blogging at Hardly Normal and documenting via video the stories of people in the situation he once knew all too well here at InvisiblePeople.tv. has now launched the WeAreVisible.com social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services.
Volunteer Match
JANUARY 17, 2023
School on Wheels is an organization enhancing educational opportunities for children who are experiencing homelessness from kindergarten through twelfth grade. 64% of children experiencing homelessness do not graduate high school.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
She writes the Girl’s Guide to Homelessness about her experiences. Here’s the blog, called Girl’s Guideto Homelessness: You may be homeless, but you don’t have to be a bum. After Brianna Karp was laid off a year ago, she ran out of money. And moved into a camper. As started blogging. Now CNN , Elle Magazine, and media the world over are writing about her.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Mark Horvath , nice work
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 23, 2023
Invest in the right technology that better empowers you to serve people in need and reduce homelessness in your community.
NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Leah Garrett, VP of development and communications for Community of Hope, has mastered fundraising and communications to improve health, end family homelessness, and make Washington, D.C.,
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.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press New York Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless in Turkey and Syria after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Humanitarian access to northern Syria is complicated by the civil war, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by U.S.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 22, 2023
Plus, CalOptima Health has given nearly $30 million to bolster services for chronically homeless people in Southern California, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network received $25 million for research, early detection, and the development of new treatments for the disease By M.J.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 15, 2022
They feed the hungry, house the homeless, stand up for those too often not heard and so much more. Nonprofits are one of the most powerful forces for good in our world. However, even with the best intentions, nonprofits can sometimes fall short of realizing their mission.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Young Lions Jazz Conservatory Jay Kahn’s gift will support the Young Lions Jazz Conservancy, among other music-education groups, as well as nonprofits that help people experiencing homelessness.
Arizona State University
MARCH 20, 2023
On This Page: Position description Posting last updated 10 minutes 30 seconds ago Homeless ID Project is the only full-time provider of identification replacement services to individuals experiencing homelessness and at-risk individuals in Arizona.
Salsa
JUNE 15, 2022
Whether you’re providing shelter for the homeless, mentoring at-risk youth, or anything in between, nonprofit service organizations like yours do incredibly important work to enrich their clients’ lives.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Plus, Salvation Army of San Diego landed $35 million to expand programs serving people struggling with homelessness, and five other donors gave big gifts to support democracy programs, climate resilience, and medical care By Maria Di Mento. Jenna Braunstein George R.R. Martin, center.
Blue Avocado
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Dear Rita: We operate a nonprofit housing clinic for homeless persons. The pandemic, along with the holidays, has inspired some of our employees to inquire about doing extra work for us as volunteers. We don’t normally use volunteers.
Care2
MARCH 15, 2022
Whether you’re focused on environmental defense, providing shelter for the homeless, or advocating for political change, you need a powerful base of support to push your nonprofit’s mission forward.
Volunteer Match
JULY 8, 2022
Homelessness in Santa Cruz County is 5x the national average. An interview with Rozene Pieri Enloe, a Community and Volunteer Outreach Coordinator with Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes — a community-based organization dedicated to alleviating hunger in Santa Cruz County, California.
Selfish Giving
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
The real problem of homelessness: no place to sleep. Show Notes Leesa Sleep Sapira Sleep One Company Tackles Homelessness: One Mattress at a Time Mark Horvath & InvisiblePeople.tvNever Miss a Show - Sign Up for Email Updates. Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to David Wolfe , Co-Founder and CEO of Leesa Sleep , a certified B-Corp that donates one mattress to a shelter for every ten it sells.
Arizona State University
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Perform check-in of incoming clients in Homeless Management Information System (HMIS); provide linens and assist with bag and tag process; 3. Experience working with the homeless and / or impoverished.
Bloomerang
MARCH 10, 2023
At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity.
Arizona State University
MARCH 13, 2023
At UMOM we believe that housing + income ends homelessness. Provides leadership, aligning efforts across departments to support UMOM's strategy of housing + income = ending homelessness.
Arizona State University
MARCH 2, 2023
RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides program development of all NAC Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) shelter and homeless programs ensuring successful implementation, evaluation and quality program services to residents.
NonProfit Leadership Center
MARCH 20, 2023
A nonprofit organization hires a talented professional. This person is valued by their peers and supervisors. They consistently meet or exceed job expectations. They are one of the most talented team members to come through the organization in the past few years.
Arizona State University
JANUARY 26, 2023
We work to equip families to overcome underlying issues that lead to homelessness – ensuring stables homes, safe children, and strong families because of our efforts. Join us today to help end family homelessness – volunteer, donate or advocate on behalf of those we serve.
Arizona State University
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The FHH Specialist I position is responsible for providing client navigation services and screenings for families experiencing homelessness with the purpose of diverting families to safe housing options and/or to connect them to the community emergency shelter waitlist.
Candid
DECEMBER 3, 2021
million, with a focus on advancing racial justice and ending the cycles of mass incarceration and mass homelessness. million to nonprofits working in the areas of housing and homelessness, including over $1 million to organizations that help homeless and runaway youth; $4.8
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