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Three Organizations Invest $40M in Seed Funding for Black-led Nonprofits

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Ballmer Group, Echoing Green, and New Profit announce funding for a new initiative to address the systemic funding gap for Black-led nonprofit organizations in the U.S. The grant will fund a five-year initiative to build leadership and sustainability of Black-led organizations focused on economic mobility.

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Fundraising Book Review: ‘Green Green’

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So here is a review of the book "Green Green," published by Civil Sector Press, written by Canadian David Love, who has been raising funds for more than 51 years. I love fundraising book recommendations and, as you probably know by now, I love reading (and writing) fundraising books.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. More posts by this contributor.

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Facing the Giving Gap in Nonprofit Fundraising — From Foundations to PTAs

NonProfit PRO

In May of 2020, Echoing Green and The Bridgespan Group published an article highlighting enormous budget disparities between Black and white-led nonprofit organizations seeking institutional funding in the early stages of their development. The numbers were staggering.

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Warner Bros. has officially sold the Looney Tunes film Coyote vs. Acme

Engadget

funded the creation of the movie but then shelved it for a tax write-off. Directing duties fell to Dave Green, who made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Discovery has sold the rights to the movie to Ketchup Entertainment, the same company that just released The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Warner Bros.

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Sustainability catches the eye of Kompas’ shiny new, green-tinted glasses fund

TechCrunch

The dollar is mostly green, but in the hands of Kompas , so are kroner, euros and shekels. The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries.

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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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