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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2002-2012Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. To celebrate 21 years i of grantmaking data, we’re taking a look back at how far we’ve come and how we’ve evolved over the years. private and community foundations.

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One example comes from, StethoCloud , which developed a solution to diagnose childhood pneumonia. It sounds like science fiction, but let me share a few examples I heard about at the conference. Hon Weng Chong, a member of the team, described StethoCloud is a “cloud-powered, mobile-hybrid stethoscope for early detection of pneumonia.”

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

This means youth who had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be undernourished or hungry over the summer. households experienced food insecurity in 2012, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment. ensuring access to education. The Huge Progress We've Made So Far. There were eight goals. Some big achievements were.

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As of April 23, 2012, MomsRising published 35 blog posts as part of the food blog carnival that were initially promoted on our own network and then pushed out, using various community #hashtags on Twitter and by our policy partners and other allies. 1 item of discussion was childhood obesity, which garnered 65 out of more than 400 tweets!

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

The social enterprise model that connects marketing and financing has shown some success in addressing social problems with revenue not solely generated from donors and the government (Artz, Gramlich, & Porter, 2012). However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds.

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