The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. Students on @EdgenuityInc , there's your ticket. Edgenuity offers over 300 online classes for middle and high school students ranging across subjects from math to social studies, AP classes to electives.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

To assist in the arduous grant research process, I’ve created this list of grant resources and funders according to a specific funding focus area: education. . These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Funding Priority: Education.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Western Michigan University (WMU) is a large, public research-intensive university that has been helping students reach their potential through a pursuit of purpose since 1903. Around 20K students find that purpose each year across a range of undergraduate and graduate programs at WMU. Solidifying Student Success.

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Charity Village

JANUARY 26, 2023

The It Gets Better Project has announced that applications are now open for its major grants initiative. The grant funds projects that uplift and support the well-being of LGBTQ2SIA+ students.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

These include categories like grants, donations from individuals, support from companies, and earned income from services or products.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Rather than spend a year staring at Zoom, some students are considering taking the semester off. Startups see this as an opportunity to recruit these students into virtual fall internships, Bloomberg reports. Startups are hoping to compete for top students. Others are extending the terms of their summer cohorts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds. Raising funds and winning grants is difficult and requires significant staff time and resources. Similarly, a grant might have specific conditions like the types of activities it can fund or allowances for overhead expenses.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Grant Research Tip: When searching for funding, it is important not to overlook potential federal or state resources. Also, learn exactly how I do my own grant research and how your organization can find more appropriate funders and funding opportunities. Funding Priority: Elder/Senior Care. Sigma Foundation For Nursing.

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

Grant proposals take a lot of work. So, we asked you on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook: What red flags do funders look out for when reading a grant proposal? Here they are in this crowdsourced list of grant writing red flags. An output is hosting six exercise workshops for 300 students. Did we miss a red flag?

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Between 2015 and 2022, education nonprofits consistently received the largest percentage of total grant dollars from institutional grantmakersan average of 27%followed by health (21%) and public benefit organizations (19%). Among individual donors, the share of dollars directed to education also declined, from 20% to 19%.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2025

Specifying majors and home towns closed the doors for many deserving students. The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and other major funders stepped up in awarding grants with maximum flexibility for recipients during the pandemic. In the foundation world, these are typically known as grants for general operating support.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Grants lead to paid interns and a full-time volunteer coordinator. Last year, we received a grant which has allowed us to pay BA- and MA-level interns $25 per hour for their internships as well as for the staff supervision.

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VisionLink

JUNE 14, 2012

VisionLink''s Lois Ann Porter and myself are participating in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation''s gathering of their grantees and contractors focused on improving postsecondary success for students. Worse: only 15% of these students actually successfully complete their remediation sequence in the first year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

An Indian student studying in the U.S., The startup grants loans to students at a fair interest rate by evaluating the data they generated — alternative and derived — in India itself. Kumar said Leap today is helping students with guidance on admission, visas, and test preparation.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Grant Research Tip: While there are more than 100,000 potential grant funders across the United States, they typically are very specific in what they fund and where they fund. Visit Grantli to learn how I do my grant research and exactly how you can find the funders that align with your own organization. Kellogg Foundation.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Successful grant professionals are masters of detail. In grants work, being detail oriented is an absolute requirement. Think of a grant proposal as a drawing,” said Barbara Floersch, grant professional and author of You Have a Hammer: Building Grant Proposals for Social Change.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

In my more than 20 years as a philanthropy grants manager, nonprofit executive, and consultant, Ive seen how technology decisions can either amplify equity or entrench existing barriers. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. Fund accessible AI initiatives.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Here are some common fundraising myths that trip up many new nonprofits and folks new to fundraising: [we’ll talk about what DOES work in the next section] Myth #1: My first step should be finding grant opportunities! Grants can be an excellent source of revenue, but not for new nonprofits. How many kittens will get spayed?

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

foundations steadily decreased their support of HBCUs, in terms of both percentage of total giving and grant dollars awarded. Across 18 years, while foundations increased their overall giving by 124%, grant dollars to HBCUs declined by 30%. The number of large foundations awarding grants to HBCUs also decreased during this time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

They also offer free advertising to nonprofits through their Google Grants Program. They also launched two Facebook Pages to help promote nonprofits and social causes: Facebook for Good and Non-Profits on Facebook. They also offer a tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program for Ph.D. 2) Google/YouTube. Google donated $1,000,000 to Haiti.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I’ve seen countless grants go to “movement building” and other such things that exclude support for fundraising, which is really confounding. This is the time right now for foundations to make major grants to support fundraising and strengthening, especially around building individual giving across the nonprofit world.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 30, 2024

Three ways your CFO can help your nonprofit apply for grants. Most nonprofits strive to include grant funding in their revenue streams but often find that large amounts of know-how (as well as a time commitment from the executive level down to the front line) are needed. Read on to find out more! will be handled in the application.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

According to Dollars and Change , a report from Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, total dollars awarded and average grant or gift size increased between 2015 and 2022. Studies like the Generosity Commissions September 2024 report have shown overall giving rates in the U.S. when adjusted for inflation.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid—commonly known as FAFSA®—is the form current and prospective college and career school students must fill out each year to qualify for federal financial aid, whether that be in the form of grants, loans, or work-study funds. The Federal Student Aid (FSA) office in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S. Kevin and the SEA today launched an Initiative To Protect the Meaning of Social Enterprise , supporting the efforts of our peers with Social Enterprise UK in their "NotInOurName" campaign.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We would focus on promoting research and elevating awareness about the benefits of postsecondary education in prison and the need for incarcerated people to access Pell Grants, all while trying to change state policies to provide more financial support and generate momentum for federal action. Two years in, we expanded our focus to the U.S.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 28, 2024

AmeriCorps, the national service program that annually matches volunteers with community needs across the country, will award grants totaling more than $370 million to nonprofit and faith-based organizations spanning the public and private sectors for the upcoming fiscal year. million to help pay for college or to pay back student loans.

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Candid

JULY 14, 2022

Carefully listening to needs and wants has allowed us to build strong relationships and fund impactful grants. Trust was built through efforts to understand the history of those we serve, respecting cultures and norms, supporting unique needs in each community, and aligning our grants to their values and priorities. Lessons learned .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. The students attending her academy, MyTechBestFriend, were upset. Others privy to goings on at MTBF say the Discord incident was not the first time Awodele had allegedly punished a student for speaking. “We

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The first issue is multi-year grant funding, which might create the illusion of a profit in the initial grant year and an offsetting deficit of the same amount spread over the later years of the grant. For example, our 2008 major human rights grants from the Oak Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Her third round of grants in less than a year, Scott wrote that grant recipients were “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.” Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

.” The work, to date, has been primarily funded through donations; Apple gave the organization a grant to build the systems at 131 schools in northern Vietnam, for example. But the nonprofit is also now working with UNICEF to build rainwater harvesting systems for community use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. She helps nonprofit executives, think tank experts, and university students deliver their message. Click here for more tips.

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sgEngage

JUNE 17, 2024

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. Students—and in the case of K–12 schools, their families—do not need 24/7 access to teachers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 4, 2015

Tomorrow is an exciting day for our Bookshare online library for students with dyslexia or visual impairments. We have incredibly generous matching grants from two of our dedicated tech entrepreneur supporters, Bernie Newcomb and Lata Krishnan.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

The plan is to offer a shorter 30-day program that introduces students to “what it means to be a developer” and then to offer an “intensive” 10- to 12- month program meant to help aspiring developers gain relevant skills to get tech jobs or start their own businesses. Apple expects the academy to teach around 1,000 students each year.

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