Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

An organizational plan, the equivalent of a private-sector business plan, lays out a nonprofits mission, goals, programs, and strategies for raising and managing funds. They may feel pressured to expand into areas valued by donors to secure funding. Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college. January 21.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving trends Best practices for raising more through mobile giving How mobile giving technology can help What is mobile giving? Mobile giving is raising funds through a mobile device, whether via text, the Internet, an app, or email. Well cover: What is mobile giving?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It’s now raised a $5 million Series A round led by Genesis Investments, with participation from TMT Investments, TerraVC and existing investors Flashpoint and Misha Lyalin. AllRight’s competitors include Open English, LingoKids (which has raised $22 million), MyBuddy, Preply ($15 million) and NovaKid ($2.3 There are approximately 1.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Little Otter , a digital mental health company that aims to provide tools and treatment for both children and their families, has raised $22 million in Series A funding. This latest investment brings Little Otter’s total funding to $26.75 Every family then starts their mental health journey by setting goals and milestones.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Founded by L GBTQ+ entrepreneurs Rob Curtis (CEO), Billie Simmons, a trans woman (COO) and Paul Barnes Hoggett (CTO), Daylight is announcing today that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round. First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America. It is expensive to be a queer person,” he said. “It

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While important, this factor wasn’t universal but was vital for campaigns focused on crisis relief or specific fund-raising event promotion. Emotional Connection: The campaign raised awareness about ALS, a debilitating disease, fostering empathy and a desire to help. Online Donations – St.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 20, 2021

Data had become ununified and cluttered, thus limiting the organization’s ability to connect with its constituents and raise more funds. The post How Zero to Three Improves Childhood Development Through Salesforce Technology appeared first on Cloud for Good. Blog: What Can Salesforce Do For Nonprofits?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. It has raised a total of $22.85 The founder of Lendo was a childhood friend of mine,” said Widen, of his close ties to the Swedish fintech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Guardians Collective brings together small groups of families and pairs them with an early childhood educator, a broad term that can describe a professional who has experience working in early learning and development programs or is licensed in a state to run a day care. Today, the startup announced a $3.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Would you stop doing crowd funding, social media infused fundraising and revert back to traditional methods of fundraising? Our initial goal was to raise $50,000.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! Four strategies for getting attention from investors. ET/noon PT.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The collaboration will focus on multichannel fundraising strategies and advanced analytics to drive long-term net revenue growth and support Feed the Childrens commitment to ending childhood hunger. From a humble beginning in a rowhouse in Washington, D.C.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

That’s the premise behind a startup called Beem , which is today announcing its first consumer app, $4 million in seed funding, and its longer-term plan to become a communications technology for the AR glasses of the future. How about beaming yourself from one device to another in real-time using augmented reality?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

BukuKas , one of several startups helping SMEs go online, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital India. “My dad used to be a SME owner himself and during my childhood I experience first hand the struggles and ups and downs connected to running a small business.” of Indonesia’s $1.04

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

While nonprofits were already struggling in a climate of decreasing donors and increasing donor churn , funding freezes from the federal government have created a host of challenges. Let’s say you have a funding gap in a region of the US where your programming is short.

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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 rush to capitalize on the shift to online learning, post-pandemic, continues. based Allrise Capital and other investors, including Genesis Investments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! Four strategies for getting attention from investors. ET/noon PT.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

How do you decide that an organization's mission to provide help for Jewish families dealing with Autism has more or less value than an organization that fights a rare childhood disease or takes care of animals? Does it really raise an organization's profile to be in the coi pond? That doesn't feel right to me.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

At my first fund, Cross Culture [Ventures], we were interested in investing in early childhood care. I met a woman who told me that early childhood education was really important [ … ] She said, ‘A lot of the skills I use today as a CEO, a lot of those seeds were planted before the age of five.’ Fast forward to 2016.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or stocks, for instance. “That’s when the dots started to connect,” said Misbah, drawing stories from his childhood. During my childhood days, I saw my family deeply troubled with debt because of poor financial decisions and no savings,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! Four strategies for getting attention from investors. ET/noon PT.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Not only will we discuss how they came together for Wonderschool’s seed round in 2017, but how that translated into what has become a total of $24 million in funding from VCs like a16z and First Round Capital. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE! Four strategies for getting attention from investors. ET/noon PT.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The startup, a Y Combinator and Iterative alum, announced today it has raised $2.2 million in seed funding. Supan and Marquez are childhood friends who started an e-commerce enabler in 2017. Online sellers can book couriers through its app, who then come to their location and pick up packages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In over a decade of investing in startups, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has only once offered to fund a founder on the spot. Once a competitive Yu-Gi-Oh player in his childhood, Fabian was working as a lead designer at Groupon when he became obsessed with mobile gaming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales. The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams. We are also moving to be an embedded finance company.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002. Why would a utility company do this?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The idea for the company stemmed from Parikh’s childhood growing up working at his uncle’s restaurant and Sopchak’s background in the hospitality industry. million in seed funding. In the past year, we also saw DishDivvy , WoodSpoon and Shef raise funds to help home cooks create a revenue stream with their homemade creations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Apart from raising emergency funds, many nonprofits rely on #GivingTuesday and end-of-year giving to generate the bulk of their individual donations. But you know that your need for funds is year-round. Fundraisers that launch on a holiday can be playful and upbeat and are a great opportunity to raise general funds.

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DipJar

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Summer Hunger , a fundraising effort to raise awareness about childhood hunger during the summer months. 40 Million Meals , which runs in November and December, and, this year, aims to raise 40 Million Meals by the end of December. DipJars on site helped to raise the equivalent of 3,750 meals! Feeding a city of 8.3

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 27, 2020

I recently reached out to marketing experts at nonprofits and organizations who work closely with nonprofits to share their insights when it comes to engaging donors and raising funds in 2020. In your experience, which marketing strategy have you found most effective at engaging donors and raising funds? They delivered.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

Last November, you may have read about how the Minnesota Community Foundation ’s GiveMN’s Minnesota Give to the Max Day raised $14 Million online in 24 hours. Last week, the community foundation finished its first Minnesota Open Idea contest to fund the best idea to address the childhood obesity issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

This is not to say that the cause, whether it be access to clean water, cancer research or childhood education, does not carry a compelling moral imperative that is reason enough for the company to get involved. For example, is the focus of your work improving the life of cancer survivors or funding research for a cure?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

” Having grown up in Karachi, childhood friends Ahmed and Aziz are aware of the challenges about the Pakistani education system, which is notably worse for those not living in large urban areas (the nation’s student-teacher ratio is 44:1). . Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

He came together with his childhood friend and began building the company in January as the pandemic hit. If it’s going through an early visa process, which is by the way, way harder than raising millions of dollars and going through YC, in my opinion, [you do that]” he said.

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