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Storyteller Series: guest post by Tony Marr, Master Storyteller Continue Reading

Information, Data, Volunteers, and Donors: Fitting the Pieces Together

In the world of volunteer home repair organizations, the key unit of information we deal with is people: the people we serve, those who volunteer with us, and those who support our organizations through their financial donations. Continue Reading

One Story, Seven Unique Audiences

In the nonprofit world, we are blessed with an abundance of many things—well wishes, happy customers, transformed volunteers, passionate staff. But as the nonprofit staff, there is one thing we are all always running short on—TIME. Continue Reading

Operation Vivian

This post is part of our Storytellers Series. The series shares stories of members organizations and how they use stories to grow their mission. Continue Reading

A Little Victory

This post is part of our Storytellers Series. The series shares stories of ReFrame member organizations and how they use stories to grow their mission. Continue Reading

Megaweek

This post is part of our Storytellers Series. The series shares stories of members organizations and how they use stories to grow their mission. Continue Reading

Far From Finished Campaign

This is the first post in our new Storytellers Series. The series shares stories of ReFrame Association members organizations and how they use stories to grow their mission. It is inspired by this year's ReFrame Conference theme, "ReFrame {your/the/our} Story." Continue Reading

Corporate Volunteers: A Case Study

Good Neighbors Home Repair has been repairing homes of low-income people in Chester County, Pennsylvania for 27 years. Throughout the years, Good Neighbors’ ministry has served the predominately rural homeowners of this quaint Pennsylvania community located just a few miles outside of Philadelphia. Continue Reading

ReFrame Goes To Washington

We hosted our first advocacy event on March 28 & 29. Nine members of ReFrame Association participated in meetings with housing-related nonprofits, federal agencies, elected officials, and their staffs. The goal of the trip was to share stories about how home repairs change the lives of those... Continue Reading

Is Your Organization Ready To Make An Impact this Summer?

Guest post by Allyson Petry, executive director of Nazareth Farm, a small, intentional Catholic community living and working in rural West Virginia. Continue Reading

Story Tools!

This month’s article is by Melanie Campbell, a development specialist at Rebuild Upstate in Greenville, South Carolina. She focuses on engaging individual donors with Rebuild Upstate’s mission. Continue Reading

How Alternative Spring Break Trips Build More than Houses

A hardworking, stressed, and probably exhausted college student amid their second semester of the year could choose absolutely anything to do for their one week of freedom from classes during spring break. Continue Reading