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Public speaking for change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

on choosing to be a nonprofit or a for-profit, based on my For Love or Lucre SSIR article 9/26 Kicking off the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series 10/1 Speaking at the Disability Rights Advocates board meeting 10/5 Duke Fuqua MBA High Tech Club Panel (Cloud Computing /Social Entrepreneurship panels) 10/5 Duke CASE Award for Enterprising (..)

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Senior Care

Bloomerang

They award five scholarships, yearly, of up to $2000 to deserving caregivers who wish to further their education in a care-related field. The AARP® Purpose Prize award is a national award in the United States that celebrates people 50 and older who are using their life experience to make a difference. AARP Purpose Prize.

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Everybody Loves a Tagline: A Contest for the Best

NTEN

Our conference hotel, the Washington Hilton was just up the hill from the metro station, so I kept walking down Connecticut to get there. (Or Take 3 minutes now to enter your nonprofit's taglines in the 3rd Annual Tagline Awards. Everything you wanted to know about the 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards.

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Best Practices for Virtual Foundation Board Meetings

Connection Cafe

Billion was awarded globally for COVID-19 related needs. Community foundations awarded more grants than any other grantmaker type (49 percent of total awards) . According to the latest report by Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy , i n the first half of 2020 more than $11.9 7 billion .

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

There are grants out there for programs, general operations, projects, and capital – but not all funders award all of these. Not every funder will want to give you grant money, so it’s important to refine your research so there’s a high probability that the grants you choose to apply for are a good match for your needs.

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How Bezos’ latest plan to protect forests could backfire

The Verge

But splashy climate change commitments like the Bezos Earth Fund can easily fall into pitfalls associated with tree planting because of their focus on speed and scale, says Prakash Kashwan, an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

Areas served: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont. First Nations Development Institute. First Nations Development Institute’s mission is to support healthy Native communities. Areas served: Columbus/Ohio. Chesapeake Bay Trust.