Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

By Paul Lamb , Principal at Man On A Mission Consulting , has over 25 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology, and public policy. We’ve all heard about blockchain, or at least its most famous application – bitcoin. But what exactly is blockchain it and how is it relevant for nonprofits?

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VisionLink

AUGUST 26, 2011

As part of their "Big Goal" to increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60% by the year 2025, Lumina Foundation has convened state legislators, policy makers, higher education leadership and representatives from 18 states in Indianapolis this week. This is important work, being done well.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Instead, it encourages foundations to start fresh by reassessing how they best live up to their responsibility and promises made to invest private resources for the public good. foundation funding to HBCUs and exploring these schools’ relationship with institutional philanthropy.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2014, the Ford Foundation refined its mission to focus on disrupting inequality by addressing its root causes rather than simply its symptoms. We removed unnecessary educational requirements that might have limited our applicant pool and no longer assumed elite universities had the best talent.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

He is also one of the creators of the environmental protection movement in Paraguay, having co-founded the Moisés Bertoni Conservation Foundation and the Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, two of the country’s prominent nature conservation institutions. and Africa. So I asked for a leave of absence from Fundación Paraguaya and dove in.

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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. As a new board member of Mary’s Pence, Natasha was ready to make a difference.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2 million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

You may think this is an odd beginning for a public policy blog, so please bear with me. And yes, public policy at the local, state, and federal levels can and will impact your ability to achieve your organization’s mission and day-to-day activities. Private Foundation Excise Tax.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Grantmaking foundations have the financial resources that nonprofit organizations need to accomplish their work. Nonprofit organizations are doing the work essential to further the grantmaking foundation’s mission. Grantmaking practices are important to grantmaking foundations. Clearly define the foundation’s mission.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2021

Public policy and the nonprofit sector. Public policy at all levels of government has the ability to threaten the work of all nonprofits (National Council of Nonprofits, 2019). At the federal level, we see this threat in tax, regulatory, and spending policies. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Establish support.

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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

Donald was a deeply committed colleague, a lifelong and tireless advocate, the brains behind many movements that exist today, and an inspiration and friend to many of us in the social change universe. And, yes, also the reason M+R exists. . But here’s the thing: founding and running M+R is just one of his many accomplishments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. This project, a joint effort between the nonprofit gaddum and Manchester Metropolitan University will apply the use of artificial intelligence to explore connection between mood and music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. It is funded by Open Society Foundations. On December 8, 2018, Seattle Pacific University, AI and Faith, and TheoTech hosted an unconference to explore the relationship between AI and faith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow and a research affiliate of the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, his writing and data visualization have appeared in The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Vox, and many other publications. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Amit Patel.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. The Vilcek Foundation. Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation. Zero to Three advances policy solutions designed to support and strengthen families, raise awareness and promote action on behalf of babies and toddlers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. One large local organization that has made tremendous strides in their governance is the Arizona Sports Foundation, which operates the Fiesta and Buffalo Wild Wings bowl games. Whistle-blower protection policy.

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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. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 21, 2022

SHRM is the intentional application of formalized policies and practices that create organizational successes by investing in the human capital of employees. A group of this type creates opportunities for growth in SHRM formalizations through peer-reviews and collaborations on policies, employee handbooks and hiring practices.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. NRDC combines the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of more than 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

This thought is not original; it is outlined in a recent policy paper by Peter Levine of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. Knight Foundation , was released in July 2011 and reported in CIRCLE , a publication of Tufts University. and James L.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Texas A&M University. We surveyed 121 community foundation executives from across the United States. Policy oversight. Policy Oversight. Policy oversight refers to the control function of the board, to provide guidance and oversight for the organization. Brown, Ph.D. Associate Professor. Fund Development.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 1, 2011

Most of the grantmakers in Arizona are private foundations. Even though they're nonprofits, private foundations are a little bit different, legally, than other nonprofits. Arizona is home to over 1,000 private foundations, and, as most people answered correctly in the quiz, the largest is the Virginia G.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

McNutt Professor School of Public Policy & Administration University of Delaware Software to Support Program Evaluation Laura S. But this isn't a blog that merely aggregates what is heartfelt; it provides a cross-section of some important strategic and tactical thinking: Does Nonprofit Electronic Advocacy Work?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

Support Children’s Colorado Foundation Gold – Website Established in 1978, Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation is dedicated to advancing the mission of Children’s Hospital Colorado through family-centered care and cutting-edge research and treatment. Read below to learn more about each of the Healthcare Ad awards projects.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

They discussed ways that technology can improve services for people experiencing food insecurity, as well as the policy changes, investments, and cross-sector partnerships that are necessary to drive meaningful, lasting change. Access to nutritious food is foundational to a healthy, thriving community and society. Emilio Tavarez.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 22, 2024

Lee, Harvard University’s top fundraising official since September 2018, will step down from his position at the end of the year. The search for his replacement will begin soon, Harvard University Interim President Alan M. Garber said via a statement. Lee was vice president for alumni affairs and development.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Kimberly Townsend Pierce Development Manager, Chester County Hospital Foundation Creating and sharing a master view of your fundraising activities provides important org-wide visibility for campaign roles and responsibilities to reduce unnecessary repetitive actions. Anne Malone Director of Philanthropy, University of Maryland St.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A grant to a university, school, or hospital in a geographic area where people of color might happen to be among the beneficiaries would not be included in this data set. . This funding is awarded to programs or organizations working to change systems, often through movement building, policy work, and rights-based approaches. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

He earned his PhD in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. One of our clients is the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC; [link] ). Instead, they recognized that a common intake process among all the agencies would benefit policy advocacy and decision-making on a state level.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2023

Find a local community foundation willing to take on the work for a small fee. Develop a gift acceptance policy. Such a policy is a godsend for staff because you can now say “I’m sorry, our policy prohibits us from accepting gifts of property sitting on toxic waste sites.” Finance, Investment, Development, Endowment).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Foundations that give grants to non-U.S. foundation grants for your international work, join the conversation in a live chat on Tuesday, February 26 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Kelly Shipp Simone is the vice president of legal affairs at the Council on Foundations , a membership organization that supports grantmakers in various aspects.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Their annual report, the State of Babies Yearbook , frames rigorous research, unbiased analyses, and clear communications to influence decision-makers positioned to improve public policies and interventions in support of children and families. This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. Other surveys used tighter definitions and produced smaller percentages; there is no universally accepted number.)

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Numbers are a universal langauge. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files.

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