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Client Spotlight: National Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Qgiv

In 2012, President Barack Obama named September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) works tirelessly to change that. Projects and Impact. Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children. Get Involved.

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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s exactly what the Latino Community Foundation did. Tell us briefly about the mission of the Latino Community Foundation (purpose, staffing/budget size, and fundraising history). The Latino Community Foundation (LCF) is the premier Latino fund in California. Foundation with 4 core staff members. Masha Chernyak.

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The audience includes top corporate CSR executives, venture capital investors, government leaders, foundations, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs. One example comes from, StethoCloud , which developed a solution to diagnose childhood pneumonia.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it’s impact has been huge since you were in the…well…second grade.”. Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. With DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation matching grants, $4.6

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As of April 23, 2012, MomsRising published 35 blog posts as part of the food blog carnival that were initially promoted on our own network and then pushed out, using various community #hashtags on Twitter and by our policy partners and other allies. 1 item of discussion was childhood obesity, which garnered 65 out of more than 400 tweets!

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment. In 1990, 1.9