The document discusses homelessness and poverty in the Cambridge and greater Boston area. It states that over 738,000 people in the region face homelessness, with no home or money and not knowing where they will sleep or get food each day. Solutions At Work is a nonprofit that aims to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing resources and opportunities to achieve self-sufficiency. It operates various programs like a children's clothing exchange, job training services, moving assistance, and computer donations to help those in need. In its 25 years, Solutions At Work has assisted over 120,000 individuals through donations and services.
1) The document is an annual report from Community Renewal Team (CRT) that summarizes their programs and services from 2014. It discusses CRT's Jumpstart early education program that helped over 160 3-year-olds transition to preschool through a hybrid home and classroom model. 2) It also profiles CRT's youth employment programs that provided work experience and career counseling to over 200 high school students, helping them stay engaged in school and develop career goals. 3) The report highlights the many services CRT provides to over 114,000 people across the region, including housing, behavioral health, senior services, employment training, early education and more.
Businesses can receive several benefits from supporting nonprofits, including increased notoriety, branding, and advertising opportunities. However, the most important benefit is that it helps businesses grow their citizenship within the community. Supporting nonprofits that are solving problems or making a positive impact allows businesses to contribute beyond just creating wealth. Nonprofits also benefit from developing long-term partnerships with businesses, as it allows them to establish collaborations that support each other's missions in overlapping ways. Nonprofits must partner with one another as well, to reduce overlap and duplication of services while gaining synergies, as resources for nonprofits are often limited.
The speaker is asking youth services to support the Troubled Families program, which aims to change the lives of 120,000 troubled families by 2015 through family intervention. The program will identify families with long histories of problems and actively work with them using assertive, authoritative approaches rather than just making services available. It will focus on changing behaviors and breaking intergenerational cycles rather than just reacting to problems. The speaker argues this intensive, challenging approach is needed to truly change families in a way that previous programs have failed to do. Youth services are well positioned to identify families and take an assertive role in supporting this new approach.
Articles Featuring:
I-200 Poll Update
Technical Assistance Center Update
Education Levy, by Henry Yates Tabor 100 Public Affairs Chair
General Meeting Photos Courtesy of Flyright Productions
This document summarizes the experiences of two brothers, Richard and Anthony, who participated in Aviva's Tamariki programme for children affected by family violence. It describes the difficult family situation they came from, with an abusive mother's boyfriend and overcrowded living conditions. After being placed with their father full-time, the boys struggled with behavioral issues. The Tamariki programme helped improve their behavior and confidence. Their father noticed a significant positive change in how they dealt with emotions and related to each other after completing the programme. The document advocates for funding the programme to help more children overcome the effects of family violence.
Family and Childcare Trust's annual review is a record of our achievements over the past financial year, including details of our funders, alongside details about our staff and members of our trustee board.
This document provides information about the services offered by Brook, a leading UK organization that provides sexual health services and education for young people. It outlines Brook's mission to enable young people to make informed choices about relationships and sexuality. The document then describes Brook's education and training programs, clinical services, support services, and advocacy and campaigning work. It provides details on various workshops, sessions and other programs offered to schools and community groups on topics like relationships, puberty, contraception and internet safety. Contact information is also included at the end.
The document outlines plans for a Municipal Institute of Employment (MIE) civil association in Acapulco, Mexico. The association aims to address unemployment through vocational training programs. It would offer courses in skills like sewing, carpentry, plumbing, and electricity. The goal is to train unemployed people and place them in jobs with local companies or help them start their own businesses. The church supports such civil associations that help people through education and opportunity.
1) The document is an annual report from Community Renewal Team (CRT) that summarizes their programs and services from 2014. It discusses CRT's Jumpstart early education program that helped over 160 3-year-olds transition to preschool through a hybrid home and classroom model. 2) It also profiles CRT's youth employment programs that provided work experience and career counseling to over 200 high school students, helping them stay engaged in school and develop career goals. 3) The report highlights the many services CRT provides to over 114,000 people across the region, including housing, behavioral health, senior services, employment training, early education and more.
Businesses can receive several benefits from supporting nonprofits, including increased notoriety, branding, and advertising opportunities. However, the most important benefit is that it helps businesses grow their citizenship within the community. Supporting nonprofits that are solving problems or making a positive impact allows businesses to contribute beyond just creating wealth. Nonprofits also benefit from developing long-term partnerships with businesses, as it allows them to establish collaborations that support each other's missions in overlapping ways. Nonprofits must partner with one another as well, to reduce overlap and duplication of services while gaining synergies, as resources for nonprofits are often limited.
The speaker is asking youth services to support the Troubled Families program, which aims to change the lives of 120,000 troubled families by 2015 through family intervention. The program will identify families with long histories of problems and actively work with them using assertive, authoritative approaches rather than just making services available. It will focus on changing behaviors and breaking intergenerational cycles rather than just reacting to problems. The speaker argues this intensive, challenging approach is needed to truly change families in a way that previous programs have failed to do. Youth services are well positioned to identify families and take an assertive role in supporting this new approach.
Articles Featuring:
I-200 Poll Update
Technical Assistance Center Update
Education Levy, by Henry Yates Tabor 100 Public Affairs Chair
General Meeting Photos Courtesy of Flyright Productions
This document summarizes the experiences of two brothers, Richard and Anthony, who participated in Aviva's Tamariki programme for children affected by family violence. It describes the difficult family situation they came from, with an abusive mother's boyfriend and overcrowded living conditions. After being placed with their father full-time, the boys struggled with behavioral issues. The Tamariki programme helped improve their behavior and confidence. Their father noticed a significant positive change in how they dealt with emotions and related to each other after completing the programme. The document advocates for funding the programme to help more children overcome the effects of family violence.
Family and Childcare Trust's annual review is a record of our achievements over the past financial year, including details of our funders, alongside details about our staff and members of our trustee board.
This document provides information about the services offered by Brook, a leading UK organization that provides sexual health services and education for young people. It outlines Brook's mission to enable young people to make informed choices about relationships and sexuality. The document then describes Brook's education and training programs, clinical services, support services, and advocacy and campaigning work. It provides details on various workshops, sessions and other programs offered to schools and community groups on topics like relationships, puberty, contraception and internet safety. Contact information is also included at the end.
The document outlines plans for a Municipal Institute of Employment (MIE) civil association in Acapulco, Mexico. The association aims to address unemployment through vocational training programs. It would offer courses in skills like sewing, carpentry, plumbing, and electricity. The goal is to train unemployed people and place them in jobs with local companies or help them start their own businesses. The church supports such civil associations that help people through education and opportunity.
The Equal Rights Center 2015 Impact Report - Ayris ScalesAyris T. Scales
The document summarizes the work and accomplishments of the Equal Rights Center (ERC) in 2015. It discusses that the ERC works to identify, investigate, and address discrimination through testing, advocacy, training, outreach, research, and enforcement efforts. In 2015, the ERC conducted nearly 1,000 civil rights tests, trained over 100 testers, increased membership by 1,000, received over 170 complaints, and increased corporate trainings by 7%. The ERC also collaborated with other organizations on initiatives addressing issues like housing discrimination, disability rights, and language access.
The document discusses a partnership between HSBC bank and SOS Children's Villages charity to improve access to education for disadvantaged children worldwide. It details how the partnership has directly benefited over 375,000 children through 277 projects in 45 countries since 2006. Key activities include building and rebuilding schools, providing textbooks and equipment, teacher training, and support for pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, and adult education. Testimonials from the leaders of both organizations emphasize the importance of education and the impact of their collaborative work.
Equity Matters: Multicultural Engagement in the Public Sector: Solutions and ...Metropolitan Group
This document summarizes key points from a speech about the importance of multicultural engagement in the public sector. The three main points are:
1) Multicultural engagement matters because it helps fulfill the social contract by ensuring fair representation and opportunity for all. This allows the public sector to solve problems through shared responsibility.
2) The approach to multicultural engagement matters. Effective approaches understand cultural contexts, build relationships, and tailor engagement strategies to different communities.
3) Culture matters in how public services are delivered. Understanding cultural norms and perspectives helps ensure programs and services are relevant and accessible to diverse communities. Authentic engagement allows new solutions to emerge.
Announcing our 2015 Round 1 Employee Idea Grant WinnersLinkedIn for Good
This document announces the selection of 18 employee idea grants for Round 1 of 2015. It provides brief descriptions of each selected idea, which include funding surgeries for a child with a cleft lip in India, providing phone chargers to the homeless in San Francisco, creating a documentary to empower female entrepreneurs, providing aid to students at a monastery school in Burma, educating residents in Bangalore about waste management, building homes for families through Habitat for Humanity in the US and Argentina, helping fund medical treatment for someone with kidney failure in India, supporting arts education in Brazil, facilitating cultural exchange over meals in Singapore, and providing support services to uninsured women with cancer in the US.
By the end of 2014, HUMANA People to People Belize was reaching out to more than 3,000 participating families through the Child Aid project. Child Aid is implemented in 35 communities in Toledo District and 12 communities in the districts of Orange Walk and Corozal.
The grant proposal requests $831.96 to fund a youth engagement program between the Whitney Pier Boys and Girls Club and the Ally Club of Cape Breton's LGBT Resource Center. The program aims to address ignorance and lack of awareness of LGBT issues in youth by having representatives from the LGBT Resource Center do weekly presentations and activities at the Boys and Girls Club to educate youth and promote understanding and acceptance of LGBT people. The goals are to improve statistics around bullying of LGBT youth and prevent prejudice from developing in children as they grow up. A variety of interactive activities and games are proposed to engage youth, increase their knowledge of LGBT topics, and encourage empathy and allyship.
The document discusses recycling and bullying. For recycling, it provides examples of items that can be recycled such as plastic, glass, paper, and metals. It outlines the advantages of recycling including creating a cleaner environment, reducing pollution, and converting waste into reusable products. It also discusses different types of recycling beyond bins, such as charity shops, G'machs which allow borrowing items, and GIFT which involves donating time and goods. For bullying, it defines different types like physical, verbal, and cyber bullying. It recommends resources for targets of bullying like Bullying UK and ChildLine that can provide help or advice. Bystanders are identified as needing to report bullying rather than doing nothing.
This document proposes a project to rehabilitate ex-felons and raise money for schools. It would train 20-30 ex-convicts and homeless/disabled individuals to become salespeople raising donations from businesses and politicians for local schools. The donations would be used for advertising and public relations for the donors. Ex-cons would call full-time to solicit donations while homeless/disabled individuals conduct interviews and put together inspirational magazines featuring student achievements. The goal is to raise millions for schools while providing well-paying jobs and a sense of purpose to rehabilitate ex-criminals and the disadvantaged. It argues this approach would significantly reduce recidivism rates and overcrowding in prisons.
Basic Idea: We believe everyone deserves a second chance, especially if they paid for it. What we do is train rehabilitated criminals to be successful mentors and money raisers for schools. What they do is interview students while being recorded and offer trained mentorship. We then bring all of their recorded stories back to the office each day and chose a story to publish in our magazines. After that we get on the phones and sell cover placement and advertisement to politicians and business leaders while showing them shaking hands with our younger generation students. The P.R. is nonprofit and tax deductible. There is a National and Community magazine to choose from. All of the money goes to help struggling students. We even do personal charities.
This document discusses orphanage tourism (OT) and the controversies surrounding it. OT involves volunteer tourists visiting orphanages, often with the intention to help children in need. However, orphanages have become commodified and are sometimes set up to attract tourist dollars rather than help children. While volunteers have good intentions, short visits can disrupt child attachments and orphanages may not meet children's real needs. The growth of OT is also linked to problems like child trafficking. Solutions proposed include improving volunteer qualifications and experience, discouraging short visits, and prioritizing family/community care over orphanages.
This document profiles Beth Klein, a Colorado lawyer who has taken her commitment to professionalism beyond the courtroom to help solve societal problems. Over three decades, Klein has fought human trafficking through her nonprofit foundation, helping pass new anti-trafficking laws in Colorado. The document describes how Klein recruited other lawyers to help abused children, inspiring them to use their skills for good. It outlines the scope of human trafficking and how Klein's foundation has grown to thousands of volunteers combating the issue through legal and legislative work.
Now What? Ideas for the Board of EducationZane Fischer
The document provides 20 suggestions from Santa Fe community members on actions the new Santa Fe Board of Education could take. The suggestions include meeting with school staff, studying the budget, promoting school autonomy, setting goals to improve student achievement, holding town halls, making meetings more accessible, advocating against further education budget cuts, increasing budget transparency, building relationships within schools, taking a pause on new construction projects, and showing where campaign funds came from.
Celebrating 150 Years of Sarah A Reed
All of us here at Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center are thrilled to be featured in the April 2021 edition of Business Magazine alongside Gale Magyar and her team at Sarah Reed Senior Living! The article in this special “Women in Leadership” issue celebrates the rich 150-year history of our organization, which was started back in 1871 by Sarah Ann Reed and 30 local women who were committed to improving the lives of Erie County’s most vulnerable population of women, orphans, children and families. In 1986, two independent non-profits formed – Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center and Sarah Reed Senior Living – and they continue to shine brightly and provide the Erie community with compassionate, cutting-edge programs and services. We know Sarah is smiling down on us and would be proud of the great work being done by Adrienne Dixon, Ph.D., Gale Magyar, NHA, CASP, and all the staff members from both agencies, as we continue to carry on Sarah’s legacy of caring and positively impacting the lives of so many individuals and families in our community and the Commonwealth.
For everyone and anyone who wants to know more about Free the Children and how you can get involved right here at YorkU with YorkFTC! Contact us at www.facebook.com/YorkFTC with any questions, comments, suggestions!
FAMILY’S PERSPECTIVEONSOCIAL INCLUSION
presented during
2nd Joint Asian Conference of International Council for Education of Visual Impairment and Deafblind International at Ahmedabad, Gujaraton
on April 5-7, 2013
by Pauzagin Tonsing
Centre for Community Initiative (CCI)
Churachandpur, Manipur
www.communityinitiate.org
PCI Media is a non-profit that uses strategic communication including television, radio, and digital media to promote social change. In 2018, highlights included launching an LGBT human rights campaign in the Caribbean funded by the EU, and two cooking shows in Peru and Bangladesh through partnerships with the World Food Program to address malnutrition. PCI Media won 11 awards for its work and had its highest annual budget to date, allowing expansion of programs and staff.
This document discusses strategies for engaging nonprofit boards in fundraising. It notes that many board members dislike fundraising due to perceptions of begging or leveraging friendships. However, boards play a crucial role in fundraising through activities like identifying donors, cultivating relationships, and making financial contributions. The document outlines the major roles of boards in governance, advocacy, information gathering, consulting, and sponsoring through fundraising. It provides templates for boards to engage in initial fundraising activities like identifying potential donors and making referrals.
This document summarizes key points about engaging boards in fundraising from a workshop on the topic. It discusses the importance of boards being involved in fundraising and common reasons why board members resist it. It also outlines strategies for defining board and staff roles, creating policies on board fundraising, using strategic planning and metrics to measure engagement, and providing training and communication to support board fundraising efforts.
Board members often dislike fundraising because they perceive it as begging, fear rejection, and don't know how to do it effectively. However, an engaged board that uses their influence and donations can help stimulate funding and gain respect for an organization. The document discusses how to engage boards in fundraising through clarifying their responsibilities, orienting new members, and involving them in identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of donors. An engaged board is vital to an organization's success and connection to its community.
How to Build a High-Performing Nonprofit Board Misha Charles
Governing boards are one of the most valuable, yet underutilized, resources available to nonprofit organizations. Required by law to oversee an organization and to advance its mission, the board is uniquely positioned to enhance organizational visibility, effectiveness, and sustainability. This webinar will help nonprofit CEOs and board members, social entrepreneurs, and others who work with boards to build a governing body that performs at the highest level and adds value to the organization.
The Equal Rights Center 2015 Impact Report - Ayris ScalesAyris T. Scales
The document summarizes the work and accomplishments of the Equal Rights Center (ERC) in 2015. It discusses that the ERC works to identify, investigate, and address discrimination through testing, advocacy, training, outreach, research, and enforcement efforts. In 2015, the ERC conducted nearly 1,000 civil rights tests, trained over 100 testers, increased membership by 1,000, received over 170 complaints, and increased corporate trainings by 7%. The ERC also collaborated with other organizations on initiatives addressing issues like housing discrimination, disability rights, and language access.
The document discusses a partnership between HSBC bank and SOS Children's Villages charity to improve access to education for disadvantaged children worldwide. It details how the partnership has directly benefited over 375,000 children through 277 projects in 45 countries since 2006. Key activities include building and rebuilding schools, providing textbooks and equipment, teacher training, and support for pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, and adult education. Testimonials from the leaders of both organizations emphasize the importance of education and the impact of their collaborative work.
Equity Matters: Multicultural Engagement in the Public Sector: Solutions and ...Metropolitan Group
This document summarizes key points from a speech about the importance of multicultural engagement in the public sector. The three main points are:
1) Multicultural engagement matters because it helps fulfill the social contract by ensuring fair representation and opportunity for all. This allows the public sector to solve problems through shared responsibility.
2) The approach to multicultural engagement matters. Effective approaches understand cultural contexts, build relationships, and tailor engagement strategies to different communities.
3) Culture matters in how public services are delivered. Understanding cultural norms and perspectives helps ensure programs and services are relevant and accessible to diverse communities. Authentic engagement allows new solutions to emerge.
Announcing our 2015 Round 1 Employee Idea Grant WinnersLinkedIn for Good
This document announces the selection of 18 employee idea grants for Round 1 of 2015. It provides brief descriptions of each selected idea, which include funding surgeries for a child with a cleft lip in India, providing phone chargers to the homeless in San Francisco, creating a documentary to empower female entrepreneurs, providing aid to students at a monastery school in Burma, educating residents in Bangalore about waste management, building homes for families through Habitat for Humanity in the US and Argentina, helping fund medical treatment for someone with kidney failure in India, supporting arts education in Brazil, facilitating cultural exchange over meals in Singapore, and providing support services to uninsured women with cancer in the US.
By the end of 2014, HUMANA People to People Belize was reaching out to more than 3,000 participating families through the Child Aid project. Child Aid is implemented in 35 communities in Toledo District and 12 communities in the districts of Orange Walk and Corozal.
The grant proposal requests $831.96 to fund a youth engagement program between the Whitney Pier Boys and Girls Club and the Ally Club of Cape Breton's LGBT Resource Center. The program aims to address ignorance and lack of awareness of LGBT issues in youth by having representatives from the LGBT Resource Center do weekly presentations and activities at the Boys and Girls Club to educate youth and promote understanding and acceptance of LGBT people. The goals are to improve statistics around bullying of LGBT youth and prevent prejudice from developing in children as they grow up. A variety of interactive activities and games are proposed to engage youth, increase their knowledge of LGBT topics, and encourage empathy and allyship.
The document discusses recycling and bullying. For recycling, it provides examples of items that can be recycled such as plastic, glass, paper, and metals. It outlines the advantages of recycling including creating a cleaner environment, reducing pollution, and converting waste into reusable products. It also discusses different types of recycling beyond bins, such as charity shops, G'machs which allow borrowing items, and GIFT which involves donating time and goods. For bullying, it defines different types like physical, verbal, and cyber bullying. It recommends resources for targets of bullying like Bullying UK and ChildLine that can provide help or advice. Bystanders are identified as needing to report bullying rather than doing nothing.
This document proposes a project to rehabilitate ex-felons and raise money for schools. It would train 20-30 ex-convicts and homeless/disabled individuals to become salespeople raising donations from businesses and politicians for local schools. The donations would be used for advertising and public relations for the donors. Ex-cons would call full-time to solicit donations while homeless/disabled individuals conduct interviews and put together inspirational magazines featuring student achievements. The goal is to raise millions for schools while providing well-paying jobs and a sense of purpose to rehabilitate ex-criminals and the disadvantaged. It argues this approach would significantly reduce recidivism rates and overcrowding in prisons.
Basic Idea: We believe everyone deserves a second chance, especially if they paid for it. What we do is train rehabilitated criminals to be successful mentors and money raisers for schools. What they do is interview students while being recorded and offer trained mentorship. We then bring all of their recorded stories back to the office each day and chose a story to publish in our magazines. After that we get on the phones and sell cover placement and advertisement to politicians and business leaders while showing them shaking hands with our younger generation students. The P.R. is nonprofit and tax deductible. There is a National and Community magazine to choose from. All of the money goes to help struggling students. We even do personal charities.
This document discusses orphanage tourism (OT) and the controversies surrounding it. OT involves volunteer tourists visiting orphanages, often with the intention to help children in need. However, orphanages have become commodified and are sometimes set up to attract tourist dollars rather than help children. While volunteers have good intentions, short visits can disrupt child attachments and orphanages may not meet children's real needs. The growth of OT is also linked to problems like child trafficking. Solutions proposed include improving volunteer qualifications and experience, discouraging short visits, and prioritizing family/community care over orphanages.
This document profiles Beth Klein, a Colorado lawyer who has taken her commitment to professionalism beyond the courtroom to help solve societal problems. Over three decades, Klein has fought human trafficking through her nonprofit foundation, helping pass new anti-trafficking laws in Colorado. The document describes how Klein recruited other lawyers to help abused children, inspiring them to use their skills for good. It outlines the scope of human trafficking and how Klein's foundation has grown to thousands of volunteers combating the issue through legal and legislative work.
Now What? Ideas for the Board of EducationZane Fischer
The document provides 20 suggestions from Santa Fe community members on actions the new Santa Fe Board of Education could take. The suggestions include meeting with school staff, studying the budget, promoting school autonomy, setting goals to improve student achievement, holding town halls, making meetings more accessible, advocating against further education budget cuts, increasing budget transparency, building relationships within schools, taking a pause on new construction projects, and showing where campaign funds came from.
Celebrating 150 Years of Sarah A Reed
All of us here at Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center are thrilled to be featured in the April 2021 edition of Business Magazine alongside Gale Magyar and her team at Sarah Reed Senior Living! The article in this special “Women in Leadership” issue celebrates the rich 150-year history of our organization, which was started back in 1871 by Sarah Ann Reed and 30 local women who were committed to improving the lives of Erie County’s most vulnerable population of women, orphans, children and families. In 1986, two independent non-profits formed – Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center and Sarah Reed Senior Living – and they continue to shine brightly and provide the Erie community with compassionate, cutting-edge programs and services. We know Sarah is smiling down on us and would be proud of the great work being done by Adrienne Dixon, Ph.D., Gale Magyar, NHA, CASP, and all the staff members from both agencies, as we continue to carry on Sarah’s legacy of caring and positively impacting the lives of so many individuals and families in our community and the Commonwealth.
For everyone and anyone who wants to know more about Free the Children and how you can get involved right here at YorkU with YorkFTC! Contact us at www.facebook.com/YorkFTC with any questions, comments, suggestions!
FAMILY’S PERSPECTIVEONSOCIAL INCLUSION
presented during
2nd Joint Asian Conference of International Council for Education of Visual Impairment and Deafblind International at Ahmedabad, Gujaraton
on April 5-7, 2013
by Pauzagin Tonsing
Centre for Community Initiative (CCI)
Churachandpur, Manipur
www.communityinitiate.org
PCI Media is a non-profit that uses strategic communication including television, radio, and digital media to promote social change. In 2018, highlights included launching an LGBT human rights campaign in the Caribbean funded by the EU, and two cooking shows in Peru and Bangladesh through partnerships with the World Food Program to address malnutrition. PCI Media won 11 awards for its work and had its highest annual budget to date, allowing expansion of programs and staff.
This document discusses strategies for engaging nonprofit boards in fundraising. It notes that many board members dislike fundraising due to perceptions of begging or leveraging friendships. However, boards play a crucial role in fundraising through activities like identifying donors, cultivating relationships, and making financial contributions. The document outlines the major roles of boards in governance, advocacy, information gathering, consulting, and sponsoring through fundraising. It provides templates for boards to engage in initial fundraising activities like identifying potential donors and making referrals.
This document summarizes key points about engaging boards in fundraising from a workshop on the topic. It discusses the importance of boards being involved in fundraising and common reasons why board members resist it. It also outlines strategies for defining board and staff roles, creating policies on board fundraising, using strategic planning and metrics to measure engagement, and providing training and communication to support board fundraising efforts.
Board members often dislike fundraising because they perceive it as begging, fear rejection, and don't know how to do it effectively. However, an engaged board that uses their influence and donations can help stimulate funding and gain respect for an organization. The document discusses how to engage boards in fundraising through clarifying their responsibilities, orienting new members, and involving them in identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of donors. An engaged board is vital to an organization's success and connection to its community.
How to Build a High-Performing Nonprofit Board Misha Charles
Governing boards are one of the most valuable, yet underutilized, resources available to nonprofit organizations. Required by law to oversee an organization and to advance its mission, the board is uniquely positioned to enhance organizational visibility, effectiveness, and sustainability. This webinar will help nonprofit CEOs and board members, social entrepreneurs, and others who work with boards to build a governing body that performs at the highest level and adds value to the organization.
Calling All Marketing Professionals : Nonprofit Boards Need YouTaproot Foundation
Nonprofit boards need you. Taproot and BoardSource interviewed and surveyed marketing professionals who served and who hadn’t served on nonprofit boards, and here’s what we heard:
- 92% of your marketing peers surveyed expressed interest in nonprofit board service
- Professional skill development was listed as the #1 reason to join a board
- 95% of your marketing peers who have served on boards believe it is important to share their marketing expertise with the nonprofit
You can play an incredibly valuable role on a nonprofit board — from sharing your perspective on an organization’s marketing & branding efforts, joining a board’s communications & marketing committee, to helping staff and board members learn how to effectively share the organization’s unique story.
Check out this presentation for more information on ways marketing professionals can drive impact for a nonprofit board. For more information, check out: http://www.taprootfoundation.org/leadprobono/board_service.php
The House of Charity is a nonprofit organization that has been providing aid to underprivileged children for over 20 years. Through various programs, it aims to help children living in poverty by providing essential supplies, medical care, and opportunities to succeed academically and develop skills. Its educational programs include a mobile library and initiatives to provide school supplies, uniforms, books, and winter clothes. It has served over 175,000 children since inception. The organization is committed to helping children reach their full potential regardless of their financial situation.
The document provides instructions for requesting and completing an assignment writing request through the HelpWriting.net website. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account; 2) Complete a request form with instructions and deadline; 3) Review bids from writers and select one; 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment; 5) Request revisions to ensure satisfaction. It emphasizes the site's commitment to original, high-quality content and full refunds for plagiarized work.
1. The document discusses building partnerships between families, schools, and communities to support children and families in overcoming obstacles and achieving their potential.
2. It emphasizes understanding the strengths and barriers impacting relationships and problem-solving, as well as tapping into existing strengths in communities.
3. The roles of parents, schools, and social programs are examined, as well as moving away from a "deficit model" towards empowering families and working with them as partners.
2017 Ohio Family Care Association (OFCA) Resource Family ConferenceWendi Turner
It is time to talk, connect and build a better future for Ohio adoptive, foster, kinship and primary families
Join us for our 41st annual resource family conference June 16-17, 2017! Attended by over 150 resource families and leaders in Ohio’s child welfare and juvenile justice agencies, the conference is designed to connect, educate and build meaningful collaborations between people who share similar experiences. Out of this 2 day exchange of ideas, thoughts and information we will discover what we can do together that we cannot do alone.
This document discusses the importance of service to society. It makes the following key points:
1) Service is a value that enables individuals to help others in need without expecting anything in return, and it allows people to contribute their skills to the community.
2) Society relies on people providing services and goods to meet citizens' needs. Cooperation through sharing resources helps society.
3) Youth can serve their community in various ways like volunteering, environmental protection, and disaster relief. Fostering a spirit of service within families helps build a caring society.
Susi Taylor of New England Federal Credit Union has provided financial literacy expertise and support to the Lund Family Center's residential and community programs. She offers credit report access and assistance to women in repairing and rebuilding their credit histories. Additionally, Susi co-facilitates money management and budgeting classes. She develops relationships with the women and provides respectful, non-judgmental support. Susi plays an integral role in the education that Lund strives to provide to women in their programs.
Connections for Hope builds partherships to create a stronger community. In Fairfax County, one of the wealthiest in America 1 in 4 or 25% of the children in the public school are on Free and Reduced Lunch Program. Connections for Hope was developed in response to the growing needs in our community and was designed to be a resource to the communiyt. At Connections for Hope in Herndon, VA there are six nonprofts and one county agency that work collaboratively to serve the people in need.
ESP 8 -Lesson 5_ W2Q2_Caring Families Build a Caring Society.pptxErlenaMirador1
Caring for others and serving one's community are important values that build a strong society. Service means doing something beneficial for others without expecting anything in return. It involves leaving one's comfort zone to help those in need. Youth can serve their community in many ways, such as volunteering during disasters, protecting the environment, and encouraging civic participation. For a society to function well, its members must be willing to cooperate and provide for one another's needs. Families play a key role in teaching children the value of service from a young age.
This document outlines the goals and strategies of the "Affect n Effect" foundation which aims to reduce poverty in Bangladesh by helping vulnerable groups such as children, women, and victims of child labor. The foundation targets children ages 5-14 by providing education support, young girls ages 15-20 through skills training, and women and young children through health and housing assistance. It works with a partner company called Shonar Bangla Exports to fund these programs through ethical trade. The foundation's strategies focus on empowering beneficiaries and creating long-term opportunities through education, skills development, and community partnerships.
The National Inclusion Project aims to promote inclusion for people with disabilities. It was founded by Clay Aiken and Diane Bubel after witnessing how children with disabilities were often excluded from activities open to others. The organization partners with communities and programs to increase awareness of the benefits of inclusion. It has established several successful inclusion models and programs that have provided opportunities for over 20,000 children with and without disabilities. One such program is "Together We Make a Difference," an inclusive service learning curriculum that enhances skills for all participants.
The National Inclusion Project aims to promote inclusion for people with disabilities. It was founded by Clay Aiken and Diane Bubel after witnessing how children with disabilities were often excluded from activities open to others. The organization partners with communities and programs to increase awareness of the benefits of inclusion. It has established several successful inclusion models and programs that have provided opportunities for over 20,000 children with and without disabilities. One such program is "Together We Make a Difference," an inclusive service learning curriculum that enhances students' skills while meeting community needs.
United Way of the Midlands' annual report summarizes their work from July 2015 to June 2016. It highlights partnerships and programs that helped over 230,000 people through services addressing critical needs and poverty. Examples include providing emergency housing, meals, mental health services, parenting education, and support for victims of domestic violence. Stories showcase positive impacts like a mother strengthening her relationship with her daughter who has autism through family counseling services. The report also outlines community challenges around poverty rates, food insecurity, and lack of access to healthcare or high school diplomas.
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Introduction
In a few words, identify and address a problem and a proposed solution. You can focus on common dilemmas, new trends, changing techniques, industry comparisons, new entries to market, etc. How do you propose on solving this issue and what are your recommendations? The solution is based on a thorough examination of the problem and potential solutions.
Make sure you that you have your audience in mind when you write your white paper. Who is your audience and what are you trying to convey? Are they industry experts or is this an investment pitch to a business audience? This should help you set the tone and the correct verbiage for your paper.
Product/Service/Methodology
Describe the methods and demographics you used to obtain your data. Why did you choose the research tactics you implemented? How will this strategy inform on the topic you’re covering?
Key Findings
Key Findings #1
Research and argument
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Key Findings #2
Research and argument
Key Findings #3
Research and argument
Visual Data
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Conclusion
Time to wrap it up. What is your conclusion? How would you synthesize all the information into something even the busiest CEO wants to read? What are the key takeaways? How does your product/service/methodology uniquely address the issues raised by your study?
Key Takeaways
Takeaway #1
Takeaway #2
Takeaway #3
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Habitat for Humanity of Brevard County
April 1, 2020
Habitat for Humanity of Brevard County
Habitat for Humanity of Brevard County is a fundamental organization that seeks to provide decent houses to the residents. The organization collaboratively works with the Habitat for Humanity International which is a nonprofit organization headquartered at Georgia to oversee the construction of decent housing facilities across the fifty states in the United States and over seventy countries across the world (Habitat.org). The vision of Habitat for Humanity is typical to partner with people and families when building decent and affordable homes while still establishing self- reliance, stability, and strength. In Brevard County, the Habitat for Humanity organization helps the communities living around to improve or build a place they can call home (Brevardhabitat.com). Just like the other Habitat for Humanity located in various locations, they work with volunteers to pay the clients an affordable mortgage.
HFH of Brevard County offers various important activities to individuals especially the low- income earners including initiating new constructions of houses that are decent and affordable. They renovate some of the existing homes in urban ...
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Introduction 2
Product/Service/Methodology 3
Key Findings 4
Key Findings #1 4
Key Findings #2 4
Key Findings #3 4
Visual Data 5
Conclusion 5
Key Takeaways 5
Introduction
In a few words, identify and address a problem and a proposed solution. You can focus on common dilemmas, new trends, changing techniques, industry comparisons, new entries to market, etc. How do you propose on solving this issue and what are your recommendations? The solution is based on a thorough examination of the problem and potential solutions.
Make sure you that you have your audience in mind when you write your white paper. Who is your audience and what are you trying to convey? Are they industry experts or is this an investment pitch to a business audience? This should help you set the tone and the correct verbiage for your paper.
Product/Service/Methodology
Describe the methods and demographics you used to obtain your data. Why did you choose the research tactics you implemented? How will this strategy inform on the topic you’re covering?
Key Findings
Key Findings #1
Research and argument
[To replace a photo with your own, just delete it and then, on the Insert tab, click Picture.]
Key Findings #2
Research and argument
Key Findings #3
Research and argument
Visual Data
Insert any data tables/charts/graphs/infographics etc.
Conclusion
Time to wrap it up. What is your conclusion? How would you synthesize all the information into something even the busiest CEO wants to read? What are the key takeaways? How does your product/service/methodology uniquely address the issues raised by your study?
Key Takeaways
Takeaway #1
Takeaway #2
Takeaway #3
2
1
Abdullah Zabidi 3
AZ
Habitat for Humanity of Brevard County
April 1, 2020
Habitat for Humanity of Brevard County
Habitat for Humanity of Brevard County is a fundamental organization that seeks to provide decent houses to the residents. The organization collaboratively works with the Habitat for Humanity International which is a nonprofit organization headquartered at Georgia to oversee the construction of decent housing facilities across the fifty states in the United States and over seventy countries across the world (Habitat.org). The vision of Habitat for Humanity is typical to partner with people and families when building decent and affordable homes while still establishing self- reliance, stability, and strength. In Brevard County, the Habitat for Humanity organization helps the communities living around to improve or build a place they can call home (Brevardhabitat.com). Just like the other Habitat for Humanity located in various locations, they work with volunteers to pay the clients an affordable mortgage.
HFH of Brevard County offers various important activities to individuals especially the low- income earners including initiating new constructions of houses that are decent and affordable. They renovate some of the existing homes in urban.
The document discusses the results of community listening sessions conducted by United Way of Brazoria County in 2015-2016. Key themes that emerged from the sessions included: a desire for a thriving community with safety, education, and employment opportunities; the importance of inclusion, involvement, and diversity; concerns about the effects of poverty exacerbated by rapid population growth; and a need for better connection and collaboration between community organizations and residents. The report aims to inform officials and organizations about community needs and priorities to guide future efforts.
Open Door Ministries provides shelter, food, and rehabilitation programs to the homeless and hungry in the Triad area of North Carolina. It was formed through a merger in 1995 between two organizations that began in the 1960s and 1980s. It currently houses 72 homeless men and operates a soup kitchen serving three meals daily. The organization aims to prevent and end homelessness through additional programs like housing assistance and job training. A campaign is proposed to increase awareness and donations through improved social media presence, website simplification, fundraising events, and community research.
Your donations to United Way help create positive change for thousands in need through various partner organizations. A donation of $26 can provide meals for someone in transitional housing, childcare for a mother taking classes, or therapy for a substance abuse client. Your donations support programs that address basic needs, education, and employment to help people stand strong against poverty. United Way brings together donors, partners, and volunteers to invest in services with measurable results leading people to safer, more stable lives.
Open Door Ministries provides shelter, food, and rehabilitation programs to the homeless and hungry in the Triad area of North Carolina. The organization was formed through a merger in 1995 and aims to prevent and end homelessness. It operates a soup kitchen, homeless shelter for men, and programs to help individuals obtain housing and job skills. The document recommends strategies for Open Door Ministries such as conducting research through online surveys, simplifying its website, being more active on social media like Instagram and Twitter, and hosting fundraising events to engage potential donors and volunteers.
The document outlines the goals and activities of the True Charity Initiative, a non-profit organization that aims to replace certain welfare programs with effective local private charity efforts. It discusses establishing "charity zones" where local non-profits would provide services like housing, employment assistance, health care, and education to those in need. The True Charity Initiative also advocates for policy changes, provides education and training, and connects local organizations through tools like an online referral database and case management system.
PHP Marketing/PR Review discusses strategies to increase awareness of PHP including developing a new tagline and elevator pitch, creating a press kit, targeting media and professional organizations, highlighting key programs, and using online fundraising and social media platforms. The document provides examples of successful nonprofit marketing using social media and recommends attending nonprofit technology conferences.
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1. Imagine a family with no home, no shelter
and very little money, starting each day not
knowing where they will be at its end or how
they will provide for the most basic of life’s
necessities. There are at least 738,514
people and 200,000 families in Cambridge
and the greater Boston area who face this.
2. The 2014 Community Outlook Survey conducted
by the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston
concludes that seven out of ten Americans are
one pay check away from being homeless.
4. In Our Community
In our community, 13% of seniors, 37% of children
under the age of 18, 64% of people with disabilities,
and 33% of veterans are living in poverty.
Massachusetts saw the 5th highest increase in
homelessness among all states between 2012-2014.
On a single night in January 2014, five states, California,
New York, Florida, Texas and Massachusetts accounted
for more than half the homeless population in the United
States.
Here in the Cambridge and greater Boston region,
approximately 88,000 children have no permanent home
and 50,000 very low-income households are on the
5-year waiting list for the federal Section 8 housing
voucher program. The waiting time is currently 11 years.
Sources: 2010-2012 American Community Survey U.S. Census Bureau and Homelessness In America 2013 Report To Congress
7. Solutions At Work was established in 1989 by a group of
homeless individuals who found the social services available
at the time to be lacking. There were hand outs such as cots
and sandwiches available, but very few opportunities to help
people become more self-sufficient by taking control of their
own lives and helping other people who face similar
challenges.
Solutions At Work’s founding premise is that people who have
experienced homelessness or poverty must have an effective
voice on their own behalf. Solutions At Work’s primary
objectives are to create a network of community support,
promote and serve as a template for innovative and real
solutions to combat and eliminate poverty and homelessness
that can be readily implemented in communities, and provide
transformative opportunities which empower people to be
self sufficient and fully contributing members of society.
Founding Premise
8. Mission & Vision
Solutions At Work is the only independent,
nonprofit organization in Massachusetts dedicated
to breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness
by providing individuals and families with
resources and opportunities to strengthen their
self-confidence, achieve self-
sufficiency, and participate in helping others.
Solutions At Work envisions a community
where people no longer experience
poverty or homelessness.
9. Real Solutions
Unlike any other organization, Solutions at
Work serves the entire spectrum of people
experiencing poverty and homelessness and
meets needs as defined by the people it
assists, and its programs and services –most
unavailable elsewhere– are designed, led and
staffed by people who have experienced
homelessness and poverty. Solutions At Work
successfully models that bringing people
together across a wide range of backgrounds
can, and does, lead to real solutions
to end homelessness and poverty.
10. Solutions At Work’s programs and services
are focused on the root causes of
poverty and homelessness and
make available the following resources
because countless local homeless and
impoverished people have expressed time
and again that these are precisely things
they need to get their lives back on track:
Programs And Services
11. The Children’s Clothing
Exchange Program
Helps low-income families deal with a
high-cost, persistent item in their budget—
clothing their children. The Children’s
Clothing Exchange is a unique barter
system in which a parent/guardian can
trade their children’s outgrown items for
age appropriate clothing, gear, equipment,
books and toys.
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14. The Kids Space is a cheerful,
comfortable and safe place
where children of all ages (and
their families) can come and
enjoy a book, play with toys
and board games, participate
in arts and crafts activities,
interact and talk with other
children, or just relax.
15. The SolutionsWear Program
Provides interview-appropriate clothing, shoes
and accessories to men and women who are
enrolled in area job-training programs, transitioning
from military service, incarceration, health care or
other institutional settings, and/or are unemployed,
underemployed or laid off and going on job
interviews to enter or re-enter the workforce.
The SolutionsWear program doesn’t just provide
business attire, it also helps people create a
professional image and presence that bolsters
their confidence, ensures success and improves
their quality of life. It also offers homeless
individuals a place to keep their belongings safe
during an interview.
19. The Moving Up Program
Provides low-cost moving services to people
transitioning out of homelessness or those living in
extreme poverty. The Moving Up program picks up
and transports items from emergency shelters,
hotels/motels, storage facilities, private homes,
furniture banks, etc. The Moving Up program also
provides work transition and job opportunities, job
skills, training and professional development for
homeless or impoverished people who would like to
pursue a career/employment or start a business in the
moving industry or other fields, to enable them to
become financially stable and more active
contributors to the larger fabric of society.
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21. The Get Connected! Program
Refurbishes high-quality donated computers and
printers and gives them free to those in poverty or
moving out of homelessness to use to job search,
find affordable housing, continue their education
or stay in touch with their support network.
The Get Connected! program also provides job
skills, education, training, professional development
and work transition opportunities for homeless and
impoverished people who would like to pursue a
career/employment or start a business in the
information technology/computer field, so that they
can become more financially stable,
self confident and employable.
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23. The Speak Up! Program
Raises awareness, counteracts stereotypes and
dispels myths about homelessness and poverty by
providing people with the opportunity to learn
first hand from those who have experienced
homelessness or poverty and from renown experts.
The Speak Up! program offers everything from
one-on-one conversations to day-long
“homelessness experiences”, fosters dialogue
and provides an interactive & immersive experience
for the participants/audience. The Speak Up!
program is available to community organizations,
clubs, business or corporate groups, school and
university/college classes, scout groups,
faith communities, professional association
conferences, the media, etc.
24. In 2013, 28% of workers earned poverty-
level wages ($11.06 or less an hour)
Source: “The State of Working America” Report
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26. Solutions At Work also partners with, serves and
receives referrals from more than 175 nonprofit
organizations, government agencies, and faith
based communities, including the Cambridge
Housing Authority, Massachusetts Department
of Children and Families, Employment Options,
Inc., On The Rise, ElderCorps, Interfaith
Action, Inc., Household Goods Recycling
of Massachusetts, Rosie’s Place, Transition
House, City Mission Society, and the New
England Shelter for Homeless Veterans.
In addition, Solutions At Work partners with a
number of colleges/universities, corporations
and business entities, including Men’s
Warehouse, Whole Foods Market, Transatlantic
Investment Management, Citigroup, Old Mutual,
CORT Furniture, PI Worldwide,
Tillingers, Harvard Business School and Social
Enterprise Club Fellows Program and the
Northeastern University Law School Alumni
Association, who advertise and promote
Solutions At Work’s programs and services,
donate new clothing and items, conduct clothing
drives and mobilize volunteers to work on
special projects for Solutions At Work.
27. Stories
One week after receiving business attire and a series of professional image sessions through the SolutionsWear
program, a man who had been unemployed and homeless for three years came to the Solutions At Work office to
excitedly report that he had gotten a job. He had been diligently interviewing for jobs throughout the three years, but
was never offered a position. He was certain that the SolutionsWear program was what changed his situation.
A family in Boston with a new born baby was evicted from their apartment and became homeless when the father
was laid off from his job and the family was unable to pay the rent. The Moving UP program moved the family into
housing in Holyoke that the Department of Children and Families was able to secure for them. The DCF case worker
told the Moving Up program staff that without the services of Solutions At Work, it would have been difficult for them
to place the family in housing other than a temporary shelter.
A woman who was a victim of domestic violence came to the Get Connected! program seeking a computer that she
could have and use to study for the exam to obtain a drivers license. Her husband had taken their only car and the
apartment she was able to afford to rent for herself and her children was not near public transportation, leaving her
with no way to get to and from work. The local library only allowed use of a computer one hour a day, which was
inadequate time for her to study and prepare for the exam. Solutions At Work facilitated the donation of a car for her
from the National Consumer Law Center Working Cars For Working Families “More than Wheels” opportunity and
through the Get Connected! program she was able to study for and pass the exam, obtain her drivers license and
maintain her employment.
While “shopping” at the Children’s Clothing Exchange, a single mother with three young daughters shared with the
program staff that her daughters been bullied on numerous occasions because of their dilapidated clothing; she
stated that Children’s Clothing Exchange program made a huge difference, not just because she could get “new”
clothing for her daughters that she could not afford to buy, but that her daughters could have the same clothing other
children have and hold their heads up proud, and as a result, the bullying stopped. Disadvantaged and homeless
children face challenges many other children don’t ever experience.
Tara’s Story
28. These are just five
of the countless
stories of how
Solutions At Work
helps people make
real progress and
empowers them to
achieve self
sufficiency and
dignity.
29. In its 25 year history, Solutions at Work
has assisted more than 120,000 people
in Cambridge and the Greater Boston
region and collected and distributed
over $17 million worth of in-kind donated
clothing (children’s clothing and
adult business attire), coats, shoes,
accessories, toys, books,
baby/infant/toddler gear,
computers and computer equipment
to homeless, low-income and
disadvantaged individuals and families.
30. Now imagine the family– armed with an amazing will to escape the
streets and aided by the opportunities and resources Solutions At Work
provides– makes it out. They leave behind the streets, the shelters,
and the fear to embark on a new journey of self-sufficiency and, at last,
permanent housing. Through Solutions At Work this result
occurs for families every day.
32. For Further Information Contact:
Gail M. Sudore, C.F.R.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Solutions At Work, Inc.
391 Evereteze Way
Cambridge, MA 02141
Tel: 617-576-0039
E-mail: gsudore@solutionsatwork.org
Website: www.solutionsatwork.org