NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

nonprofits making less than $1 million per year were just as likely to increase their funds as those making $50 million or more. At the end of the report, the NSF asked charities to predict what their fundraising would look like in 2018. What did differ, however, was the giving trends by region. How has 2018 stacked up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls. There's a growing number of artists, like Mary Flanagan who is on the board of Games for Change, interested in games.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. Why are museums going in the other direction, trying to become more consistent rather than celebrating their idiosyncrasies? But that's only part of the story.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. Why would they want to do that?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2025

Federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors face shifting priorities, new executive orders, and evolving funding practices. As the current administration rolls out new policies and executive orders, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and other grant recipients must adapt or risk losing essential funding opportunities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

” The company kept the lights on for the period after I met them with an SBIR award from the NSF, with the Phase I and II awards yielding more than $2 million in non-dilutive money to work with. We don’t want to introduce materials that are just gonna be another problem.” ” In the Accelerator over the Sea.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

W hen he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his federally funded research project as one of many they considered ideological and of questionable scientific value, Darren Lipomi, chair of the chemical engineering department at the University of Rochester, was incensed.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

"It's ludicrous," University of Maryland biologist Joshua Weitz, who has previously received NSF grants, told NPR. If one looks at this list, you find things that we should absolutely be proud of funding," he added.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) pointed out , the United States has long funded programs that support technologies that enhance privacy, fight censorship, and support internet freedomand this order is directly undermining those programs.

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