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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

The judges also determined the rules of the granting process in Fearless Foundation’s “Fearless Strivers Grant Contest,” constituted a contract and were therefore subject to anti racial-discrimination statutes found in 42 U.S. In declarations filed with the court, all three asserted they “meet the nonracial requirements for the contest.”

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Guest Post by Anne Mai Bertelsen: Contests for Good - An Insider's View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Anne Mai Bertlesen and I had a quick exchange at the end of year after I blogged about the Pepsi and Chase Giving Contests in December. She offered to write a guest post that provides an "insider's perspective" having run a number of cause-related ventures including contests.

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4 Key Fundraising Technologies to Know for 2022

Greater Giving

While your chosen livestream platform should provide instructions, you’ll need content to design an exciting and engaging program for your stream. Some nonprofits have seen huge success incorporating audience reactions or contest submissions on the stream. Find out more about creating a micro-philanthropy campaign.

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Upcoming Webinar March 29: Mapping Philanthropy - Data Visualization for Good

Tech Soup

Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Deconstructing An Angry Crowd: What Can We Learn?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That's the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog , one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase Bank handled its online contest. The design is very important. I'm sure I've missed something.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. Social Media in Program Delivery.

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