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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year.

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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt

The MatrixFiles

At a time when higher education is facing public funding cuts, changing demographics and a challenging student debt environment, institutions are facing an uphill battle to sustain enrollments and stay relevant. How is declining trust affecting your association? Declining trust is leading members to leave the profession.

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Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers – guest post by Aaron Dorfman, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Some grantmakers shy away from funding advocacy, preferring instead to fund direct services. Thinking that one must either fund services or advocacy is a false choice.

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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Journalism News and Information.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. The Atlanta Journal Constitution, wrote this article about your ‘Good News’ Auctioneer.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” But is this the right question?

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How Donorbox powers these nonprofits’ fundraising

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As a non-profit organization, the main barrier organizations face is securing sustained and long-term funding. Since its founding in 2001, the organization has based its advocacy work on the tenets of transparency, accuracy and independence from partisan forces and corporate influence. So far, it has raised more than $1.2 Conclusion.