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Branch snags $147M at a $1.05B valuation, showing that thorny insurtech market not impervious to growth

TechCrunch

With this latest financing, Columbus, Ohio–based Branch has raised $229.5 As a business, especially at a time when insurtechs are struggling in the public market, we believe Branch’s technology stands apart and will allow them to grow quickly while also producing sustainable long-term loss ratios,” Sigalow added.

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Columbus-based Tribevest bags $3M for its collaborative investing platform

TechCrunch

Tribevest users leverage the LLC structure for decision-making, giving members executive roles and proposing and voting on group rules — all actions that are recorded on Tribevest’s platform. The Columbus, Ohio-based company just raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its business, a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch.

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Loop launches out of stealth to make auto insurance more equitable

TechCrunch

Car auto-insurance from legacy providers has structural bias built into it. Structural bias is baked into financial services and institutions that perpetuate and reinforce [it],” said Nadeau, who has worked at Brookings Institute and studied at MIT around topics of mobility. “We Loop makes a gross commission on every policy it sells.

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School Choice and Blackbaud Software

sgEngage

and how they impact students, families, and public funding in general. States may offer public funds in the form of tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, education savings accounts (ESAs), or a combination of those options. It all depends on the timing and nature of your state’s program and the structure established in your school.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

In the publication “ Strategic Volunteer Engagement: A Guide for Nonprofit and Public Sector Leaders ,” Sarah Jane Rehnberg, PhD, and her colleagues describe the Cycle of Poorly Managed Volunteer Engagement. Register for the Nonprofit Management Institute''s NMI 104 - Managing Staff & Volunteers online course.

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15 Historical Nonprofit Moments You Should Know

Whole Whale

Famously, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1831: “I must say that I have seen Americans make a great deal of real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend a faithful support to one another”. The first community foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Each year, the Center awards panel-adjudicated project grants in two areas—exhibitions and public interpretation, and performance—as well as 12 fellowships for individual artists. Areas served: Cleveland/Ohio. It is made up of more than 1,300 funds representing individuals, families, organizations, and corporations.

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