TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The size and price range for the proposed offering have yet to be determined. billion private funding round led by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Ford Motor and funds and accounts advised by T. Fidelity Management and Research Company, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Coatue and D1 Capital Partners.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

It also pledged to stop using single-use plastics in its packaging by 2025. The company also pledged to eliminate waste from its own manufacturing process, although its suppliers won’t be expected to stick to the same zero waste goal as Microsoft. People tossed out a record 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019.

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Candid

JULY 15, 2024

Since the COF pledge, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has been monitoring whether funders have maintained these commitments to reduce grantee burden. Early evidence suggests that many funders have stayed the course, especially in the areas of grant reporting requirements, funding restrictions, and proposal processes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. Is the donor renewal rate low?

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Several organizations I’ve worked with have had Fund and Campaign records set up backward, which caused a struggle when adding multiyear pledges and producing consistent pledge reminders. This could be especially troubling in a capital campaign when an influx of new pledges quickly becomes overwhelming. Record everything.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

Still, that pledge hasn’t quieted the growing chorus of congresspeople concerned over potential anti-competitive behavior from Facebook. Klobuchar said in statement Friday that the “Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission must investigate this proposed deal.”. Facebook keeps looking for even more ways to take our data.”.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2024

Exit 1: Disqualification Road Exit 2: Proposal Avenue Exit 3: The Stewardship Fork Once you know what road you’re on with a potential donor, you can decide to press the gas or to let it go and move on to a better-fit major gift prospect. The most successful MGOs are intentional about proposals and use them to clear out traffic jams.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2014

Specifically, they want to be able to pre-order and expect it to arrive in the timeline you proposed. It says “pre-order,” not “make a pledge.”. They just want to buy your product and to get the feeling that they’re supporting it. That’s right: no funding there. Sound familiar? But if you look closely, you’ll find the one difference.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This underscores the value of introducing pledges on your donation page. Pledges enable donors to commit to specific amounts over a predefined period, fostering flexibility in giving and cultivating a sense of commitment and accountability. Mixing both story and statistics will help you create a powerful proposal.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

On Thursday, Verizon announced a range of new public commitments to protect low-income consumers in connection with its proposed acquisition of Tracfone. For its part of the deal, Verizon pledges to continue to provide Tracfone’s Lifeline subsidy programs for at least three years after the merger closes. On Thursday, Sens.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

In the statement, Amazon says that the CPSC rejected its offer to work together on this issue, and it seems like that might be true — because Amazon’s offer was a “proposed recalls pledge” that would let online marketplaces handle recalls themselves. Amazon suggests that’s not true, though.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Amazon says the proposal was similar to a resolution that was voted down by shareholders last year. In 2019, more than 7,500 workers backed a shareholder proposal asking Jeff Bezos to create a comprehensive climate change plan for the organization. The pledge also doesn’t address other harmful pollutants from tailpipes.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The commission, which has been investigating Apple since 2016, says the company has pledged to report on the status of app review transparency once a year for the next three years. According to the JFTC, Apple proposed changing its app review guidelines in response to the investigation. You can’t sign up for Netflix in the app.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

The two companies will be paying up to $35 a dose of the BioNTech vaccine and donating them to the government; each company has pledged to spend $175 million. BioNTech is partnered with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Co. to distribute its mRNA-based vaccine, which was co-developed with Pfizer, within China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

" So basically you pledge to do something if x number of people pledge to help you. The pledges range from changing a city to changing the world. Each team has put forth a proposal and they need to get 30 members to vote for the proposal within a month. The concept is: Tell the world ???I???ll

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to the report, Google’s Cloud division has reassigned engineers to work on a proposal for Google to contribute to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, which the DoD describes as an attempt to “achieve dominance in both traditional and non-traditional warfighting domains.”.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” A best practice is getting the donor prospect to sign a letter of intent pledging when payments will be made.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

This feature allowed me to know -at any given moment-how many proposals I had out and how many I might have next month. One of my favorite features of Salesforce is that it allowed me to start tracking the gift even before I even did the ask or submitted the letter of intent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We’ve pledged to award more than $20 million to support innovative ideas that move communities forward. Global Giving will vet contest applications to ensure they meet the requirements — for example, grant proposals may not contain profanity or involve political advocacy for a particular party.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

But learning how to master gift capacity will help your team know how to best approach a prospect and draw up accurate, thoughtful proposals. Knowing the details helps your frontline fundraisers with everything from asking the right questions during a meeting to making a thoughtful proposal. Cross-check for accuracy.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Launched in 2008 to assist individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to societal challenges, the program has invited proposals around a single topic since 2017. Philanthropies pledge $5 billion to 'Protecting Our Planet Challenge'.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s been one year since Google’s $1 billion pledge of support to Africa’s digital economy , and Tage and Annie do a little performance review. It is not yet known what kind of incident it was or what, if any, personal information was taken in the process. Here’s five more for you: How we doing?

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

At the time, 97 percent of the unit signed a strike pledge. A proposal that would require half of all job candidates who progress past a phone interview be from an underrepresented group was previously rejected, the union said in March.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

In fact, 800 foundations signed a pledge to adopt more trust-based practices in order to move money more quickly and with fewer restrictions. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

Microsoft announced that it would also not be selling its facial recognition services to police the day after Amazon’s pledge, and IBM said that it would stop developing or researching facial recognition tech altogether the same week. Google doesn’t commercially offer its facial recognition technology to anyone.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

And then, Congress steps in to try to regulate these companies, but inadvertently proposes legislation that just makes things worse. It’s like when he pledged $44 billion to buy Twitter and then changed his mind, except this time, there’s not even any money at stake. So, I made a deal with myself.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Grounded in the in-depth interviews and several ideation sessions, we proposed five new concepts to pivot V2I’s business model, which we jointly refined to two concepts. With these insights in mind, we turned to ideating and designing new potential business models with V2I to engage and deliver impact in a scalable, digital way.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? Or what about KickStarter’s model with pledging/small contributions/crowdsourcing? What we are doing when we talent scout isn’t just about creating a pool of projects but about starting relationships.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

To add more fuel to the fire, the Direct Marketing Association says that due to rising consumer hostility toward Direct Mail, laws have been proposed in 15+ states to create “Do Not Mail&# registries. One of the main drawbacks about Direct Mail is that the people who donate money, on average, are older and older.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” A best practice is getting the donor prospect to sign a letter of intent pledging when payments will be made.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

In June 2021, G7 member nations released a statement confirming orbital debris as one of the biggest challenges facing the space sector and pledged to commit to the safe and sustainable use of space. Attitudes are changing, however, and over the past year, we have seen a significant shift in the urgency around the issue.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

An advanced CRM software system is multifaceted, but its central purpose is to track every outbound communication—phone calls, emails, meetings, letters, and proposals—and every inbound response from constituents, such as purchases, donations, attendance at events, engagement, and correspondence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

These inspections occurred prior to the introduction of Spain’s Riders’ Law, which is why Glovo intends to challenge the proposal and expects a judgment only in the coming years. As EU eyes ‘balance’ on precarious gig work, Glovo offers pledge of ‘fairer’ conditions for couriers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.” ” Friends and strangers then pledge to support the project; pledges will only be received if the project reaches the tipping point. More on how it works.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As the second week of COP26 — the UN’s global climate change conference — draws to a close, climate scientists are poring over the pledges made by world leaders, trying to determine whether their commitments to reduce carbon emissions will bring us within the agreed limit of a 1.5 degree global temperature increase.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Once submitted, the application is scrutinized and debated across the organization –often requiring time consuming revisions of the proposal. This eliminates the need to create a new application for Rainin, and leverages the investment already made in a prior proposal.

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Candid

AUGUST 6, 2024

Give while you live With the growing ease of giving at scale and cultural changes supported by The Giving Pledge, Atlantic Philanthropies, my organization, and others, more ultra-high-net-worth individuals are giving most of their fortunes away while they’re alive.

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