TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

IntellectoKids , a developer of educational apps for children aged 3 to 7 years, has raised $3 million in a Series A financing led by U.S.-based The platform offers parents of preschool children “gamified” educational content and structured lessons available on mobile devices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. To date, ONEHOPE Wine has raised nearly $5 million for nonprofits worldwide. 5) Best Friends Animal Society Store :: shop.bestfriends.org.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

America is grappling with a decline in empathy that threatens our social fabric, as genuine human connection gives way to distractions, disconnection and disruption. The intention wont just be to raise a few extra dollars, but to cultivate values that are at risk of being lost amid our hyper-digital, attention-fragmented culture.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Goalsetter , a platform that helps parents teach their kids financial literacy, announced the raise of a $3.9 Bank, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Elevate Capital, Portfolia’s First Step and Rising America Fund and Pipeline Angels also participated in the round. ” Goalsetter raised $2.1

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Riley Children’s Foundation serves as the fundraising arm of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health and the founding organization that opened Riley Hospital in 1924. Our goal is for the system to be as streamlined and automated as possible so that our development team can focus on raising funds and let the system do the rest.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

When we look at the giving landscape in North America, the preferences and motivations for giving vary across different generations. Environmental issues, education, and children’s welfare are some of the areas that resonate with this generation. Gen Xers often prefer to support causes that directly impact their communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. In fact, she will often offer a surprise song during fundraising to encourage more donations – her songs have raised up to an additional $10,000 for her beloved clients!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Mani was introduced to the Sharing Foundation and became a donor to the America's Giving Challenge campaign. He treats little children born with congenital heart defects. Ten years later, Dr.Mani's team has raised over $100,000 and funded heart surgery in 23 children, with many more to follow. He lives in India.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Now WatSan has helped people in Tanjung Priok get filters for creating fresh clean water, and they have started selling it to other slums, creating income, a cottage industry, and money for uniforms for their children to attend school, breaking the cycle of poverty. When I returned to America I began my career as a nonprofit consultant.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. The round comes less than a year after Melonn raised a pre-seed round from NFX.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. That said, 70 percent of nonprofit staff positions in the United States are held by females who many say aren’t so good at asking for raises. Even if it is only a small raise, this is the year that all nonprofit social media managers (female and male) should ask for a raise.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

It seems the card’s purpose of helping parents save for their children’s education is reflected in the way it’s being marketed, but ultimately, it functions very similarly to any other credit card that offers cash back to users. Ultimately, he said, Greenlight decided against that option. billion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

3) What is the greatest obstacle that NGOs in Mexico need to overcome in order to raise more money online? What is your vetting process to ensure the money raised on Donadora is well spent? Trust and communication skills. What is your favorite campaign on Donadora at this time? Donadora donors are 93% from Mexico. 93% regularly vote.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Santa Barbara-based HearHere , the company behind an audio entertainment and immersive storytelling road-trip app, has raised $3.2 “There’s no shortage of stories that can be told about all these places in America,” Sears said. million in seed funding led by RV and outdoor retailer Camping World.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The reasons for these discrepancies are deep-rooted, often spanning generations, and are the physical manifestations of lifetimes of abuse and inequality that have been baked into the fabric of America since its inception. UNICEF offers resources and guides for how to talk to infants and children of all ages about mental health.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The children were simply delightful. Even an engineer like me softens around masses of enthusiastic kids.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As a result, The Dougy Center—a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that helps children dealing with grief and loss—raised enough money to support their programs for another year, and saw participation from donors around the US, North America, and across the globe. Let Guests Give and They’ll Give. Feel the FOMO!

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

When they did, shop clerks who were once able to calculate their quarterly shipments, do their weekly inventory and tally their daily sales on a few pieces of paper or in their head, were now scrambling to keep track in a truly United States of America. More ledgers, more documents, more copies, more clerks, more bookkeepers, more offices.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Greenlight , the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $2.3 With the latest round, Greenlight has now raised over $550 million. and Mozper recently launched from Y Combinator to bring the model to Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The funding round was led by New York-based investment fund Quaestus Capital Management , with additional backing from Scottish Enterprise, impact investor SIS Ventures, European adtech fund First Party Capital and investment raised on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs. This means Good-Loop has now raised a total of $8.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2023

MENTOR launched National Mentoring Month in 2002 as a way to unify and expand mentoring efforts, as well as raise awareness about youth mentoring in the United States. To find your own local affiliate, head to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America website and search for your area! Boys to Men Mentoring (San Diego, CA).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. I'll also be asking people to donate (minimum $10), ask their friends and networks to donate, and help me promote this cause. It's important to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love." I was going to blog it on BlogHer for my next deadline, but Jen raised what we she needed in 24 hours. The children???s

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

If that slowdown comes, however, it could happen slowly, given that our inboxes are filled with news about newly raised venture funds. In just the past two weeks, we reported that firms are sitting on a bunch of money and continue to raise. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. I have seen hundreds of ideas for new tools and technologies designed to help raise money for charities, none of which ever lived up to the billing. Feeding America.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

million seed investment round led by Reach Capital with participation from Impact America Fund and Gary Philanthropies. You get the wisdom, insights and empathy of an educator who has worked with thousands of young kids and who is guiding dialogue among four other families with children at the same age [and] stage.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Which individuals and households are most at risk – the youngest children, all children, women, the elderly? What “micro” factors raise the poverty risk for persons and households – age? What does the distribution of poverty look like, that is, what share of the population is extremely poor, poor, and/or near-poor?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

To continue with its mission, Landis raised $165 million in a combination of debt and Series A equity funding. This latest funding brings Landis’ total debt and equity raised to date to $182 million. The rate reached its peak of 69.2% in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. The rate reached 63.7%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2008

At the end of the day, while taking a little Twitter break and checking on the progress of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , I noticed that we were 3 $10 donations shy of $15,000 total raised. With $10 you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in one of the world's poorest countries.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

There's the "program" side that wants to tell you all the amazing ways your programs help save homeless pets, feed the hungry, find cures, protect our children, or empower women. And don't forget the "communications" side, whose press releases and news items help raise awareness. There's the "events" side that must sell tickets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2010

I'm celebrating with an action learning experiment and birthday wish fundraiser for Cambodian children. Once they arrived in America, they organized an all-night candlelight vigil in front of the White House to call attention to their father's plight. My birthday is on Monday, January 11th on Monday.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Many organizations raise 30% to 50% of their giving from individuals in December. If you’re a museum, zoo, cultural organization, aquarium, garden, or any nonprofit with a physical presence people can visit, you have a great opportunity to raise money and boost your membership sales by marketing your membership as the perfect gift.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. To date, ONEHOPE Wine has raised nearly $5 million for nonprofits worldwide. 5) Best Friends Animal Society Store :: shop.bestfriends.org.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Combatting increasing hunger: Feeding America and World Food Programme. Image credit: Feeding America. Our partners at Feeding America and the World Food Programme have seen firsthand how the pandemic has affected hunger in the U.S. Over the last year, Feeding America saw demand increase 60% across its network of 200 food banks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

The constant demands of caregiving, often while working and raising children at the same time, can take a huge toll. To support its continued growth, Wellthy just raised $25.5 In total since inception, Wellthy has raised just over $77 million. Image Credits: Wellthy “This was an opportunistic raise for us,” she said. “We

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