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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. Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C., private and community foundations.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Now that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals have expired and in some ways, have succeeded surprisingly well , the UN has developed a new set of even more ambitious goals. ensuring access to education. What technology women have access to in Beijing is vastly different than what women can access in Bihar.

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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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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

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone.

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