The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Sponsored White Paper By Adva Priso Chief Strategy Officer Moore Digital Organic web traffic from search could be halved by 2028, with a massive impact on nonprofit marketers, according to research and strategy firm Gartner. Whats a nonprofit marketer to do? This is for two reasons. We recommend several key actions: Write for humans.

Homelessness 52

Homelessness Construction Law Marketing 52

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. Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, volunteer recruitment/training, consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, marketing/communications, and systems.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Homelessness Finance 52

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Fortunately, I had some experience in marketing that gave me ideas about how to fundraise and help the nonprofit. How many homeless people will get a meal because your donor chips in $50? Did a man who had been staying at the homeless shelter for a long time find permanent housing? Plus, I had a burning passion to help people.

Nonprofits 98

Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management Homelessness Foundations 98

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In-Kind Gift Donation Receipts Whether you run a food bank, thrift store , homeless shelter, or disaster relief organization, any nonprofit that collects physical items (or accepts in-kind services) must know the differences between cash and in-kind donation receipts. Estimated value.

Disaster Relief 52

Disaster Relief Public and Nonprofit Management Retail Charitable Contribution 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

For perspective, the size of this rarely addressed market is 14 times the margin of victory in the 2024 presidential race. It introduces civil rights attorney, Nobel Prize nominee, and American history maker Desmond Meade as, Homeless and suicidal, with a felony record I pointed out to Meade that there were times in Martin Luther King, Jr.s

Homelessness 116

Homelessness Poverty Foundations Law 116

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.

Disaster Relief 65

Disaster Relief Community Development Associations Leadership 65

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

Write a Business Plan: A bank can apply for its charter with a basic business plan, generally around 100 pages long, setting forth the concept of the bank, the local landscape, the banks initial policies and governance structure, the marketing plans, the risk management plan, and much more.

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

Marketing channels. Consider using a multichannel marketing approach that combines traditional channels like direct mail and flyers with digital channels like social media, email, and your website. A multichannel marketing strategy can help you reach a wider online audience. Optimize your digital promotion strategies.

Recruitment 54

Recruitment Participation and motivation Disaster Relief Activism 54

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Part of this work involves connecting people with lived experiences of homelessness, precarious rentals, and manufactured housing with homeowners fearing gentrification and displacement. These all are interconnected and dynamic.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

Elevation

JUNE 9, 2025

For example: “ Alex, a single mother, overcame homelessness with the help of our housing program. Share experiences from beneficiaries, volunteers, or staff. A well-told story can convey your impact more powerfully than pages of statistics. Today, she holds a steady job, and her children are thriving in school. ”

Homelessness 52

Homelessness Nonprofits Children Management 52

Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 6, 2025

For instance, perhaps the heating system breaks in one of your organizations homeless shelters during a winter storm. The post Strategic Planning in Times of Uncertainty: Adapt Your Plan appeared first on Top Nonprofits by Nexus Marketing.

Homelessness 52

Homelessness Recruitment Governance Philanthropy 52

Blue Avocado

MAY 13, 2025

This opened the door to receive student involvement in projects and help with IT, marketing, and nonprofit business law. 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 Collaborations Universities Law 65

iMarketSmart

MARCH 19, 2025

Especially if that stranger appears to be impoverished or homeless and the donor once feared becoming like them, or if they knew someone who fell upon hard times. At best, a polite no thank you. Because they have no reason to give you money. And yet, some people do give money when strangers ask them.

Fundraising 59

Fundraising Fundraising Donor Motivation Values 59

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 31, 2025

The provider will send you a shoe reuse kit containing shoe collection, marketing, and shipping materials. Set out shoe collection and marketing materials. For marketing, youll put up flyers, posters, and other signage around your community. For collection, youll set out boxes or bins provided by your fundraising partner.

Social Enterprise 59

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Fundraising Fundraising 59

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.

Homelessness 96

Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Insurance 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, initiatives that seek to develop the lives of people from homeless communities have discovered how living in a private apartment with no prior requirements can have dramatic effects on unhoused people. So-called housing first initiatives enable them to rebuild their sense of dignity and awaken their spirits and ambitions.

Health 118

Health Public and Social Policy Medical Governance 118

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Maggie Keenan , a branding and cause marketing consultant in Savannah, Georgia, is a graduate of my Six Figure Cause Marketing course , which shows nonprofits and businesses how to develop and execute an effective and lucrative cause marketing program. The pin-up below sold for a buck. Great thinking, Maggie! You can too!

Homelessness 269

Homelessness Marketing Marketing Management 269

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.

Homelessness 214

Homelessness Technology Food Governance 214

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.

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Homelessness Technology Marketing Marketing 201

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

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. If you don’t know Mark Horvath , you should.

Homelessness 195

Homelessness Children Nonprofits 195

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

After all the important stuff, I’m thankful for good businesses and nonprofits that execute great cause marketing promotions that make me proud to call myself a cause marketer. It’s amazing what Mark Hovarth has done with brands to help the homeless. I complain that there isn’t enough online cause marketing.

Marketing 278

Marketing Marketing Food Homelessness 278

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I call this active cause marketing (ACM). They practice what I call passive cause marketing (PCM). While this approach won’t raise as much money as an active pinup program, it’s a hundred times better than most passive cause marketing programs I see. But ACM isn’t for everyone.

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Activism Marketing Marketing Food 245

Selfish Giving

JULY 25, 2011

I love this cause marketing promotion from a UK housing charity that brings together eight Edinburgh thrift shops with the leading location-based service, Foursquare. Shelter Scotland helps people with all sorts of housing problems from homelessness to poor living conditions. Foursquare should be part of their [cause] marketing too.

Marketing 248

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Culture 248

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I came across 17 Email Marketing Terms Every Business Should Know last week and it’s a nice summary written in plain English. We included a plain English glossary of online marketing terms at the back of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause (Amazon). Microsites.

Marketing 200

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Collaborations 200

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Here are my picks for the best local cause marketing programs of 2011. My criteria for picking these promotions wasn’t based on dollars raised, but on how well they represented the potential for local cause marketing. In short, these programs inspired me and made me proud to be a cause marketer. Location: New York City.

Marketing 239

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Food 239

Selfish Giving

MAY 15, 2012

The Six Figure Cause Marketing Program – the most comprehensive and successful cause marketing training program on the planet – returns May 29th as a two-part webinar at CharityHowTo.com (SG.com’s exclusive webinar partner). A copy of my book Cause Marketing for Dummies. I’m so glad I signed up for this program.

Marketing 180

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Retail 180

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.

Homelessness 112

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

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Press is a weekly, subscription-based dry cleaning and laundry delivery service in Texas that is helping the homeless and growing its business with its Socks for Souls program. A cause marketing idea for a lingerie store FOR MEN??? Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Ryan Harmon , CEO & Co-founder of Press Cleaners.

Homelessness 124

Homelessness Marketing Marketing Fundraising 124

Selfish Giving

MAY 2, 2013

Today on CauseTalk Radio, Megan and I talk to Jon Siegel , Executive Director, TisBest and Tricia Wilkerson , Marketing Manager, Conifer Health Solutions about ExpoGiving. CauseTalk Radio Podcast business 4 better cause marketing conifer health solutions expogiving tisbest trade show' Tune in now! … Keep reading.

Marketing 174

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Charitable Organizations 174

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

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. Your Facebook Group May Soon Be Able to Host A Watch Party. How to Use Facebook Live: The Ultimate Guide [link]. Do you have a Facebook Live story or tip to share?

Homelessness 173

Homelessness Foundations Communication Nonprofits 173

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 7, 2009

As you may know, I am in the middle of writing the full-length, printed book version of Nonprofit Marketing Guide, to be published in Spring 2010 by Jossey-Bass. Here is the my list of 10 marketing realities for nonprofits, with abridged commentary. Reality 1: Marketing is not a dirty word.

Marketing 220

Marketing Marketing Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 220

Selfish Giving

AUGUST 23, 2016

Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan Strand and I talk to Chris Noble , CEO of Matchfire , a marketing and technology company for business and social impact, about key trends in cause marketing, including the power influencers, content marketing and employee engagement. Trends in cause marketing: Snapchat, Pokemon Go!,

Marketing 180

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Retail 180

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 14, 2010

We talked about the beauty of a CMS, Wordpress in particular, and I showed them how easy it is to update your site by making a quick change to the Nonprofit Marketing Guide home page. All-Access Pass Holders to Nonprofit Marketing Guide can now reserve 30 minutes on Kivi’s calendar for only $75. Get the Details.

Marketing 191

Marketing Marketing Homelessness Technology 191

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 18, 2016

A while ago I saw this Facebook post by Mark Horvath, founder of Invisible People , a unique digital storytelling organization that uses video and social media to fight homelessness and poverty: Since we are big fans of repurposing here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, I asked Mark to share his process with our community. It made sense!

Non-Profits 212

Non-Profits Homelessness Retail Poverty 212

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Cause marketing won’t cure cancer. I know this because cause marketing is blessed and cursed by having what Malcolm Gladwell calls “weak ties.&#. [I It's no surprise I love cause marketing and social media.]. The ties surrounding cause marketing are equally weak. Or end hunger. Or stop domestic violence.

Homelessness 196

Homelessness Production Marketing Marketing 196

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 28, 2013

” Albion “Albi” Calaj (pictured above with friends from Horizons for Homeless Children ) knows the importance of charity. Cause Marketing In Action cause business cause marketing causepreneur custom tees kosovo war onebillionshirts.org' Strategies for Nonprofits.” … Keep reading.

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Homelessness Children Marketing Marketing 207

Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I’m impressed by how food trucks market themselves and are such big users of social media. A lot of nonprofits, fundraisers and cause marketers can learn a lot from these mobile eateries that have a nose for where the business is and know how to keep fans coming back. Food trucks are for and by the people.

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Food Homelessness Production Nonprofits 271