Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2018
Capstone Advisor
Anne Mosher
Honors Reader
Julia Carboni
Capstone College
Citizenship and Public Affairs
Audio/Visual Component
no
Keywords
housing, fundraising, nonprofits, syracuse ny
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Social Sciences
Subject Categories
Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Urban Studies
Abstract
This Capstone is a two-part project that seeks to better understand the impediments to affordable housing development in Syracuse, New York and take action to ameliorate the problem with a local community-based housing organization. A Tiny Home for Good is a Syracuse-based nonprofit agency dedicated to ending the cycle of chronic homelessness. They do this by managing tiny homes and rent them to individuals who are facing or have faced homelessness. Their long-term goal is to build 50 homes by 2020. One problem facing their work is that they do not have enough money to achieve their long-term goals. Further, they do not have the fundraising tools that are time and cost efficient. To address this problem, I created an Action Plan that includes a donor and donation data analysis, wrote and distributed a newsletter with a donation appeal, and re-designed the donation page on their website. These tools, all aimed at increasing donations from individuals, helped raise more than $15,000 in the fall campaign. This report examines the strategy and outcomes of this Action Plan.
Recommended Citation
Kincaid, Michelle, "Fundraising Tools for Community-Based Housing Organizations in Syracuse, NY: Collaboration with A Tiny Home for Good" (2018). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 1223.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1223
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