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Penn State THON Breaks All-Time Annual Fundraising Record

NonProfit PRO

Penn State THON, the largest student-run philanthropy that delivers financial and emotional aid to families affected by childhood cancer, announced that it raised an all-time annual high of $15,006,132.46 following the organization's annual 46-hour dance marathon.

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham: Transforming Student Journeys Through Salesforce

Cloud 4 Good

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally-renowned, public doctoral research university and academic health center dedicated to transforming the student experience. Thrailkill elaborates, stating, “We see with students that text messaging is how they want to receive communications, especially since COVID.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Areas served: Worldwide. Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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3 decisions every nonprofit should make before writing an organizational plan 

Candid

A Seattle-based agency supporting foster youth, Treehouses stated mission was giving foster children a childhood and a future. By expanding services to middle school students, they raised the graduation rate from 40% to over 80% for nearly 3,000 youths, showcasing the impact of audacious goals for nonprofits.

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” “We believe everyone has a purpose.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

First, let’s settle on an example we can use to walk through all 5 steps: you work for a small nonprofit that focuses on early childhood education, so you have lots of services for parents and partnerships with hospitals, child care facilities, and doctors offices. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments

TechCrunch

Since its launch in 2017, AllRight has launched Spanish-English, Polish-English and Russian-English language pairs and garnered 9,000 students, who take 50,000 lessons per month. He said: “Our pilot language pair launch three years ago showed that learning a language with gamification in early childhood produces excellent results.

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