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Are corporations making good on their racial equity pledges?

Candid

A s of July 2020, we’d identified racial e quity grants and pledges worth $4.2 Yet a closer look at th is funding shows that pledges — particularly those from corporate funders — account for nearly three-quarters of the dollars we’ve tracked. What are corporate pledges? . billion dollars. 3] . 3] .

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

The money they’ve pledged, in context, looks an awful lot like pocket change. Apple theoretically could have made its $100 million pledge back in less than a day. That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). Apple’s $100 million represents just 0.18

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6 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Built for publishers that produce a lot of content, Action Button is a widget that features “Donate” buttons (as well as Tweet, Call, Pledge buttons) directly inside trending articles published by their partners. For your reference, here are the fundraising tools featured in 2019 , 2017 , 2016 , and 2015.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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Learning from peers to refine your nonprofit funding strategy

Candid

Those capabilities cant be built overnight, so youll need to share your findings and proposed funding strategy with key internal stakeholderswho are vital to implementing it. Each funding category has its advantages and disadvantages, and there are particular capabilities suited to each.

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Pledge raises $4.5M seed round to build a carbon-measurement and removal API

TechCrunch

Pledge is a startup aimed at industries like freight forwarding, ride-hailing, travel and last-mile delivery, where customers can be presented with how to add offsets to their transactions. Pledge has been operating in closed beta until now. It’s now raised a $4.5

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Dota 2's The International tournament is returning to Seattle this year

TechSpot

The International is returning to Seattle. The annual esports world championship for Dota 2 will take place in October at the Climate Pledge Arena (formerly KeyArena), right in Valve's back yard. Read Entire Article

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