Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

Candid’s ongoing commitment is to ensure all nonprofits and their communities have equitable access to Candid’s resources. Our mission is to get you what you need to do good—and that includes free access to the nonprofit resources, insights, and tools listed below. foundations have websites.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

The good news? Let’s talk about a few steps that you can take NOW to make your social media content more accessible for everyone. . There are a few things to consider when selecting a typeface for accessibility. . When in doubt, Arial, Helvetica, and Calibri are among the most universally accessible typefaces to use.

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Charity Village

MAY 16, 2024

Employment and Social Development Canada announced a Call for Proposals for the Equitable Access to Reading Program. The program will fund projects that increase the production of alternate format reading materials for persons with print disabilities.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Accerta Health Access Foundation announced the winners of their first-ever Health Access Grant: Heartache2Hope, provides healing support to adults who have experienced a suicide loss: $19,050.00

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed.

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Charity Village

APRIL 26, 2024

The Labour Market Information Council released the Decoding Job Postings: Improving Accessibility for Neurodivergent Job Seekers Report, which highlights the importance of developing more inclusive hiring practices and fostering diverse, inclusive, accessible, and equitable workplaces.

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Charity Village

JUNE 14, 2024

Employment and Social Development Canada invites organizations to apply for funding under the Enabling Accessibility Fund – Small Projects Component for projects that make communities and workplaces across Canada more accessible for persons with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Under Betsy’s guidance, Benetech is developing new software for social good enterprises to connect communities with inclusive technology: Service Net: Reshaping the social safety net in human services to better connect people to the services they need. Senate and goes into effect this month.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions. Around 2,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events.

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Charity Village

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Does your work try to fill the gaps in access to public health care programs? The Accerta Health Access Foundation (Accerta Foundation) wants to hear from you. They do this by […] The post Accerta Health Access Foundation grant opportunity appeared first on CharityVillage.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 14, 2024

We’ve tailored an exclusive TV offer for you, ensuring you have access to the best in news, sports and entertainment. DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS understands the drive of nonprofits. As you navigate your mission, let us elevate your experience. With DIRECTV, it’s more than entertainment—it’s about making a difference.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 16, 2024

We’ve tailored an exclusive TV offer for you, ensuring you have access to the best in news, sports and entertainment. DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS understands the drive of nonprofits. As you navigate your mission, let us elevate your experience. With DIRECTV, it’s more than entertainment—it’s about making a difference.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 15, 2024

We’ve tailored an exclusive TV offer for you, ensuring you have access to the best in news, sports and entertainment. DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS understands the drive of nonprofits. As you navigate your mission, let us elevate your experience. With DIRECTV, it’s more than entertainment—it’s about making a difference.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

GivingDNA has partnered with Windfall to enhance its affluent consumer dataset. This partnership will equip GivingDNA to better support its users' fundraising efforts by allowing fundraising professionals to strengthen their major giving campaigns and develop cultivation strategies for their wealthiest donors.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2024

news organizations, specifically local news outlets, have been rapidly dwindling. The COVID-19 pandemic brought more challenges for the industry, as demand for local news grew but revenue and outlets shrank. MacArthur, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations have recognized the importance of a vibrant local news ecosystem.

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Velir

MAY 4, 2021

With accessibility lawsuits in the news— like one against Dominos — more companies are recognizing the importance of serving the almost 20% of the people living with disabilities in the U.S. As a result, specialists who identify and fix website accessibility violations are in demand. Technical

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Charity Village

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital released the Accessible Fundraising Events Guide. The guide walks through how to include accessibility elements in the development and execution of events to ensure that the experience meets the needs of all participants.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We’ve tailored an exclusive TV offer for you, ensuring you have access to the best in news, sports and entertainment. DIRECTV FOR BUSINESSSM understands the drive of nonprofits. As you navigate your mission, let us elevate your experience. With DIRECTV, it’s more than entertainment—it’s about making a difference.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, Kamal Khera, launched a new call for proposals (CFP) under the Enabling Accessibility Fund’s (EAF) mid-sized projects component. Up to $3 million per project is available under this CFP to support larger new construction, renovation and/or retrofit projects.

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Charity Village

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Government of British Columbia and Sparc BC launched the Local Community Accessibility Grants initiative, which provides one-time funding of up to $25,000 to local governments to support projects identified in their Accessibility Plan or in partnership with their Accessibility Committee.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Plenary Talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union Access to published information is an essential requirement for education, employment and full social inclusion. People with vision impairments and other print disabilities deserve equal access to that treasure of information.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

CanadaHelps has published the findings from a new Ipsos poll that reveals 24% percent of Canadians (up from 22% last year) say they expect to need support from charitable services within the next six months to meet essential needs such as food, shelter, or health services – 42% of which are under the age of 35. […] The post 24% of Canadians expect (..)

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

What is website accessibility and why is it important? If a website is accessible, it means that it was built and designed for all people to use it. Websites are a tool for people to find information, learn, read the news, donate to causes that matter to them, shop, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Steve Latham , CEO & Co-founder at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. The good news is that other sources of funding are readily available. Consequently, it’s going to be a challenging giving season for organizations relying exclusively on cash and credit.

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Charity Village

JUNE 9, 2023

Accessibility Standards Canada launched a call for Board of Director applications. There are two new selection processes which […] The post Accessibility Standards Canada launched call for Board of Director applications appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2023

This is where we share life updates with friends and family, get inspiration from others, and even consume news. Here are five reasons why your nonprofit’s social media presence is one of the most valuable marketing tools at your disposal: 1) It’s accessible. 2) You can tailor social media to your audience.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The Government of Canada has launched a call for proposals under the Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) Small Projects component to increase disability inclusion and accessibility in communities, workplaces and early learning and childcare facilities. $64

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

CanadaHelps has published the findings from a new Ipsos poll that reveals 22 percent of Canadians say they plan to access charitable services to meet essential needs such as food, clothing, or shelter in the next six months.

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Charity Village

AUGUST 31, 2023

BDO Canada, in partnership with the Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society (IRIS) and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), aims to improve accessibility and inclusion in the workplace for Canadians with disabilities.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

Web accessibility, in particular, became an intriguing topic for me as it is so integral to my field of interest (which is website development, by the way), yet before my internship, I had never given it much thought. I got the chance to talk to a lot of amazing people here at Forum One about web accessibility, and they taught me a lot!

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve tailored an exclusive TV offer for you, ensuring you have access to the best in news, sports and entertainment. DIRECTV FOR BUSINESSSM understands the drive of nonprofits. As you navigate your mission, let us elevate your experience. With DIRECTV, it’s more than entertainment—it’s about making a difference.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

9: Your Data Is Not Readily Available Challenge : You need to put a report together by the end of the week, but the person who has access to the data you need is out on vacation for the week. A data dictionary will help everyone across your association become familiar with the terms used when accessing, updating, and reporting data.

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DonorPerfect

JULY 30, 2021

This sector-wide initiative advocates for cultural advancement opportunities and creating paths to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in the fundraising profession. A collaboration of nine organizations released a recent study focusing on IDEA issues in the fundraising profession, based on survey responses Read More ».

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 16, 2011

We had a Bookshare all-hands meeting this week, where our entire team gets together and talks about the latest activities and news about the Bookshare project. One piece of news struck me as being particularly poignant. Melanie Sorensen, who had recently joined the Bookshare Advisory Board, suddenly passed away last month.

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Charity Village

MAY 19, 2021

The post CanadaHelps’ Digital Skills Survey reveals huge deficit in charities’ access to digital technology and skills appeared first on CharityVillage.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We have exciting news. Data Axle Nonprofit has a brand new website. We’ve updated and streamlined our new website to better demonstrate how we help our clients achieve their mission goals. Learn more about our expanding products and services, access industry-leading educational content, and connect with our team of experts.

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