Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For nonprofit professionals serving rural communities, building strong donor relationships starts with clear communication about local needs and measurable outcomes. Data-driven insights for donor education Numbers tell a powerful story when paired with local context.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After college, she began a job as a Dean of Scholar Support at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. A High Achiever in Pursuit of Education The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation opens doors for low-income, high-achieving students to access a quality education. Mary’s Pence accomplishes their work through two programs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

And participating in community service programs can lead to better job prospects for volunteers, that same agency has found. AmeriCorps Seniors, which focuses on engaging volunteers ages 55 and older, runs programs that offer major benefits to their communities. People of all ages can get together through volunteering. Love gardening?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Channeled through community foundations in Atlanta, Austin, Columbia, New York City, and San Francisco, more than $10 million in grants have been awarded to technical nonprofits that will then supply individualized AI support to organizations in their communities. SEE ALSO: Character.AI

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Have links and phone numbers handy for the programs and services they might needor offer to call for them. Highlight the positives : When a disaster poses a threat, its easy to focus on the frightening images and statistics on social media and local news. Answer incoming questions: Supporters deserve timely responses to their concerns.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed, according to a press release by the MacArthur Foundation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. What’s the problem? Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Prospecting.

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Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

Nonprofits can maximize participation by encouraging potential volunteers to take advantage of paid volunteer time off, asking for skills-based volunteers, and helping connect companies to local communities. How can nonprofits improve volunteer engagement and retention? Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Simplify Processes If you launch an emergency funding program, streamline the process as much as possible. Extend Deadlines For programs currently in the application cycle, extend deadlines for potential grantees in impacted areas. This collaboration can make a significant—and immediate—impact.

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

You dont need a formal training program for creativity, adaptability, and resilience, but those qualities should be an intentional part of the organizations talent development plan. Save the Children draws funding from a range of sources: individual donors, corporations, foundations, multilateral institutions, and government agencies.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

Research shows the impact of prioritizing grassroots engagement and localized impact on nonprofit sustainability. Consider creating ambassador programs where passionate supporters can share your cause with their networks. Trust is the cornerstone herean active, vocal community builds credibility for your nonprofits mission.

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Charity Village

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Gay Lea Foundation announced applications are now open for the Community Impact Grants program, supporting initiatives in education, health, wellness, poverty relief and sustainable agriculture.

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Candid

AUGUST 14, 2024

Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant applications? As part of Candid’s annual survey of foundation giving trends , i we posed two questions about generative AI: Have you received grant applications created by generative AI? foundations. A convenience sample of 527 foundations responded, a 24% response rate.

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CauseVox

APRIL 18, 2025

If your nonprofit hasn’t started a monthly giving program yet, you’re missing out on a golden opportunity. Whether youre refining an existing program or just beginning to play around with the idea of recurring donations, this guide is designed for you. Were here to show you how. Storytelling is your most powerful tool.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. But at a time when many foundations are looking for creative ways to address the overlapping crises of COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change, they are viewing collaboration much differently. When foundations collaborate, the benefits are clear.

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

According to the National Council of Nonprofits , 92% of nonprofits have annual budgets under $1 million, while the typical nonprofit is community-based, serving local needs. The foundation provides capacity-building grants , including investments in technology, as well as leadership and sustainability.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Startup nonprofits, nonprofit newbies, umbrella organizations, community foundations, mentors… there are a lot of ways people may think about or refer to fiscal sponsorships, even if they’re unfamiliar with the term “fiscal sponsorship.” Local community members or charitable individuals will work together to raise funds for those affected.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2021

Explain that the only way to see the live program is to buy a ticket for the one-time presentation. For example, watch the 2020 Raise the Region Gala from the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia: ?. In addition to offering chat, make a local phone number available to your viewers during the program.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Foundations play a crucial role in supporting nonprofit organizations and driving positive change within communities. However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition that foundations possess the potential to offer more than just monetary resources.

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Candid

JULY 19, 2023

With these challenges at play, how did inflation affect foundation giving decisions in 2022 and beyond? Last month, Candid published results from the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, an annual survey of large U.S. private and community foundations. Here’s what we found. We added 8% to each grant award.”

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Many non-profit organizations rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to round out their fundraising efforts. Go to a board meeting and let your board members know that you are conducting grant research to determine which foundations to apply to for grants for the coming year.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Kellogg Foundation.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Why is a hospital foundation getting involved in quality-of-life issues?”. This simple answer is why MHP Foundation is shifting our fundraising focus to the social determinants of health within our community. Our greatest challenge as the MHP Foundation will be informing and motivating donors to this new case for support.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen an uptick in funding possibilities within your field. Funding was allocated to dozens of federal departments and agencies, with hundreds of programs benefiting.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Two years later, by then a team lead, Barrus launched a guerrilla repair program: When customers sent in their broken gear, hed drive it to his moms house in Utah where she would fix it up on her sewing machine, and ship it back. That homegrown effort laid the foundation for Cotopaxis now fully developed circularity program.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2025

Just as we finally got our footing from a global pandemic and spinning up programs to support communities dealing with extreme weather events, now federal policy shifts have grantmakers and grantees alike scrambling. Review Your Grant Strategy Remember, the role of foundations is to move money, Kristina said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

As a non-profiteer of many years, I have known donor giving programs to be described via a myriad of terms; sustainment, long-term, continued, recurring – all ways to describe the length of the relationship a donor establishes with a non-profit. By Mor­ée Lambeth , Lead Content Creator + Writer, Water.org.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

We’ll highlight: Benefits of creating a monthly giving program. 6 best practices for your monthly giving program. 5 monthly giving program examples to inspire you. Benefits of creating a monthly giving program. But should also ask certain donors directly if they’d like to participate in your monthly giving program.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

In the wake of Techstars’ decision to discontinue its Swedish accelerator program, TechCrunch+ decided to dig into the country’s startup scene to understand how one smaller venture market is adapting to a changed investing climate. And narrow our focus. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

This first installment spotlights announcements made earlier this week at CES , including new AI foundation models available on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs that take digital humans, content creation, productivity and development to the next level. 1 [dev] requires less than 10GB, so it can run locally on more GeForce RTX GPUs. With FP4, FLUX.1

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Stage 2 is about building a solid foundation, and this does NOT include asking for money yet. My professional fundraising career began when I accepted a position on the Board of the local rescue mission. In fact, most foundations wont fund your program year after year. Dont so many of us start there?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s providing employees with volunteer time off or starting a company foundation, there are plenty of ways for your company to get involved with giving back. But if your company is new to philanthropy, a great place to start is by starting an employee giving program! Why should you consider starting an employee giving program?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The certificate program is ideal for staff and volunteers at small nonprofits that want to increase their skillset and improve their resume. GrantAdvisor allows anyone in the nonprofit community to anonymously write reviews about their grant experiences with foundations. Shopify Nonprofit Program :: shopify.com/nonprofit.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Dysfunctions We Want to Disappear These common threads highlight the systemic issues that hinder our ability in the social impact sector (what I include to be nonprofit, philanthropy, and local government) to innovate, adapt, and effectively meet the needs of communities, while also overburdening staff and reinforcing inefficient practices.

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DipJar

AUGUST 6, 2021

When you focus on optimizing your volunteer program from the ground up, you can give it the foundation it needs to be successful. . Whether you’re interested in creating a brand-new volunteer management program or enhancing your current program with more effective management strategies, you’re in the right place!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee , a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. But industry experts say it’s difficult to know where plastic ends up or get rid of it completely, even with the best intentions of reuse and recycling programs.

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