TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. With these numbers growing every year, it is important that your foundation enables its website to fit on any device, from a desktop, tablet, to a smartphone. Believe it or not, young donors are not the only ones that want to access nonprofit websites on their phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

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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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This blog post is first in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. Foundations are allowed to offer venture funds or investment in for-profit organizations if the investment is a program related investment. The foundation was faced with the issue of whether to fund an enterprise as a nonprofit or a for-profit.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

While some may think corporate philanthropy means writing a check and calling it a day, many corporations seek multilayered, strategic partnerships with nonprofits that fall in line with their core business objectives. Understanding corporate motivations behind corporate philanthropy will help you structure a mutually successful partnership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Foundation produced these results as documented by Edelman. In some communities and states, the hosts are community foundations that also provide capacity building for the nonprofits they serve to help them build skills in online fundraising and social media. brendankinney (@brendankinney) September 18, 2013.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program” What Solutions Are Hiding In Our PDFS? : – eMarketer -.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

in 2023, down from 73% in 2013. In 2023, foundations contributed 19% of overall giving ($103.5 In contrast, the Giving USA Foundation’s annual report highlights that donations rose to $557.16 Foundations: Contributed $103.53 When it comes to foundation grants, stay on top of your research. in 2022 to 67.2%

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 20, 2017

This reality is contrasted against the statistics of the philanthropic community and the nonprofit sector in general which remains mostly white: as 79 percent of the foundation workforce and 91percent of the CEOs and Presidents identify as white (see figure below) (D5, 2015). People of color represented within nonprofit sector (Brown, 2015).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2017

Published by the Charities Aid Foundation. Published by the Lily Family School of Philanthropy. Published by the Giving USA Foundation. Published by the Giving USA Foundation. Foundations Report :: Download. Published by the Foundation Center. 2013 Social Charity Index :: Download.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2013

Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy is the longest running, annual report on U.S. Giving USA is published by the Giving USA Foundation. Giving USA is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Giving by American individuals, estates, corporations, and foundations grew by 3.5%

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom. private and community foundations. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. funders, and public foundations (aka grantmaking public charities).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. After processing about 66 donations per minute during their 2013 event, the website crashed at 12:30 p.m.—for

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. billion to $4.8

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

What is it like for a nonprofit to have a successful, lasting partnership with a private philanthropic foundation? One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation. The Internet of Things is one of those items on my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency is a new GrantCraft guide released in collaboration with Glasspockets from the Foundation Center. A foundation that operates transparently is one that shares what it does, how it does it, and the difference thatit makes in a frank, easily accessible, and timelyway. Increased public trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We’ll be talking about NTEN’s great work, #GivingTuesday, and why collective philanthropy is powerful. UN Foundation (@unfoundation) December 3, 2013. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, TODAY December 3 at 9:00 am PST with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward. You can participate here. What questions do you have for her?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. First we identified the titles we wanted to add—all requested by Bookshare non-student members, including some of the best science books of 2013 as reported by NPR’s Science Friday show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation organized a convening six months, ” Advancing Social Media Measureme nt ” that went beyond an overview and participants dug deeply into methods for measuring result s from using social media for nonprofit and philanthropy. Books Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). What they all have in common is kids who are combining their passion with philanthropy. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 What could be better than that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. In Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving. On March 18, 2013, NGOsource. On March 18, 2013, NGOsource. The trial membership is available to grantmakers who join NGOsource by March 18, 2013.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when the latest version of Microsoft Office became available for eligible nonprofits, charities, libraries, and foundations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program , we teamed up with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com, to host a tweet chat. Use OneNote! (It's

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The report, titled Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy, delves into all kinds of interesting questions about these donors. They were influenced by parents (89%), grandparents (63%), close friends (56%) and peers (47%) in their approach to philanthropy; and for most, a philanthropic mindset was instilled early on in life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Community Foundation of Monterey County. The map above is a visualization of the Community Foundation of Monterey Twitter following using TwitterMap. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Un Foundation. The three-day conference was amazing (you can view the schedule here ). Teens As Free Agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Wendy Hanamura (@WHanamura) January 25, 2013. Our session will focus on BLK SHP Thinking Applied – an introduction to the basic tenets of Little Bets approach (experiment, play, immerse, define, reorient, and iterate) and how to apply to the philanthropy sector. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2013

Baby Boomers Are Foundation of U.S. 5 of a Number of Takeaways from Blackbaud’s 2013 Next Generation Giving Study – NPQ. Older Donors Are More Likely to Give Nonprofits Unrestricted Gifts – The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Young People Like to Be Involved and Want Peer Approval – The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

When the company found that factory workers lacked access to clean drinking water, it partnered with Planet Water Foundation to install purified water towers in several worker communities. In 2013, it became one of the first airlines to outfit a portion of its fleet with split scimitar winglets. This isn’t disinterested philanthropy.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2013

Join Derrick Feldmann, co-author of the new book Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement , to discuss how Millennials are transforming philanthropy and engagement with social issues. How Millennials are Changing Social Causes Thursday, 6/13 at 2pm ET.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Vancouver, British Columbia – March 2013 TBA. Hope to see you at one of our upcoming conferences and thanks to each and every one of you for the great work you do in the community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement. Read Sector Blogs That Cover Data: If you want to stay current on data in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, the best place to go is Lucy Bernholz’s Philanthropy 2173 Blog.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 19, 2024

Check out these pivotal moments in the history of nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropy throughout American history: The Union Fire Company in Philadelphia , founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1736, was the first volunteer-based organization in U.S. The first community foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This year #GivingTuesday is on December 3, 2013. Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Nicole Lewis recommends that charities do much more than just signing up on the website: Establish aggressive but reasonable goals for how much to raise and the number of donors to reach. and Taproot Foundation are recommended volunteer resources.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

She officially started her full time business in 2013, and has designed hundreds of digital and real products. Vice-Chair, Giving USA Foundation. Laura MacDonald, President of Benefactor Group , is a certified fundraising executive with three decades experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

Dr. Lucy Bernholz, in a report coproduced by Grantcraft , Stanford PACS and the Stanford Social Innovation Review , titled Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint for 2013 (hereafter, “the Blueprint”) challenges readers to think about a new paradigm which looks at all “private resources for public good” (p.2), This is exciting!

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