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MacArthur Offers $100 Million For One Good Program

The NonProfit Times

Proposals must identify a problem and offer a solution that promises significant and durable change. Lever for Change influences its networks to find and fund solutions to the world’s challenges, including issues like racial inequity, gender inequality, lack of economic opportunity, and climate change. The $640 million was nearly 2.56

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. Doing more good, efficaciously, requires accelerants and challenges to the status quo.

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How inflation affects foundation grantmaking decisions

Candid

Americans viewed inflation as the top problem facing the country in 2022. With these challenges at play, how did inflation affect foundation giving decisions in 2022 and beyond? We opened our application process to any local nonprofit serving children and families.” “We As a result, nonprofits were hit hard in multiple ways.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

Interestingly, the hackathons varied in terms of their activities and the challenges. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. Census Bureau and the Peace Corps.

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Public Service, Advocacy, and Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. I was amazed not only by her energy and intelligence but by her simple, transformative goal: to end homelessness. We're in the business of finding a solution to this problem.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

Qgiv

An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand. Check out the virtual peer-to-peer world trivia night the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa hosted for inspiration for your own trivia night. Coaches talent challenge. Design challenge.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

No problem. They're a homeless services and neighborhood revitalization nonprofit that serves West Philly. Tan Vu said that families often elect to take the computers and Mobile Beacon devices with them when they leave, once they find out how useful broadband and computers are for their children. Tell Your Story.

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