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How The AI Revolution Changes Your Search Engine Strategy

The NonProfit Times

For example, you say people experiencing homelessness rather than the homeless to make sure people retain their personhood and arent defined by an often temporary condition. You need to maintain this oversight because, as generative AI increasingly constructs our reality, we must construct its reality.

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A number of other nonprofits have been focused on reducing homelessness. While many efforts in the past have targeted mayors and city councils to stop homelessness, few have also detailed a start agenda to create the counterfactual.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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4 Storytelling Tips for Your Online Donation Page

Ann Green

For instance, if you’re an animal shelter, go beyond sharing that you recently took in a homeless dog and found it a home. You don’t need to be a trained writer to construct an emotionally engaging story for your donation page. Remember when your high school English teacher taught you the “show, don’t tell” rule? It still applies here.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through its iconic mobile showers, the San Francisco nonprofit LavaMae has found new ways to serve the homeless in the absence of more radical reforms of affordable housing. Promising ideas are in ample supply, but the crucial question is: How can social innovators scale such innovations so that their local impact adds up to big solutions?

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Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Sadly, it’s no accident that 90 percent of the people living in New York City homeless shelters are people of color even though the city’s total population is less than 60 percent BIPOC. Because racism is woven into all of the systems that affect housing and homelessness, racial equity is a common thread in every solution.

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How to inspire grassroots activism

Socailbrite

Climate change, political gridlock, the pandemic, homelessness, war, wealth gaps, and racism are all around us, and they’re only getting worse as the days go by. Tell compelling and relatable stories of people who have engaged constructively and how they found it rewarding and impactful.

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