Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The CTK Foundation “Heroes with a Heart” Grant Award asks for your nominations of a “Hero with a Heart,” and gives them a chance to win $5,000 – a simple thanks for the hard work that they do. Grant Details. Blogger’s Choice Award Lastly, there will be a Blogger’s Choice Award of $1,000 (USD).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

View the archived recording of the Got Grants? On September 6, 2012, TechSoup held a free webinar with two guest presenters from The Foundation Center. This webinar, Got Grants? Finding Funding with the Foundation Center , provided a good overview for both beginning and experienced grant seekers. million grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

However, research over the last decade has painted a clear picture of the disparities that Black leaders face in philanthropy. Between 2012 and 2020, the Fellowship supported 90 leaders working across 40 U.S. Despite this outsized impact, Toyin has yet to secure adequate funding to support and scale TLNYC.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World. Dara recommends a 2012 PBS Frontline documentary on their work. Dara Westling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

She has worked in healthcare, politics and government, and technology for more than 20 years and appreciates working with nonprofit fundraisers and philanthropy consultants who use NOZA philanthropy data every day. Now, it’s the nearing the end of 2012. How much should I ask for? How can my board members help?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Unrestricted and capacity-building support held steady, and foundations even reduced grant approval times from an average of 90 to 60 days. The survey can help convince trustees who, for example, still object to the idea of making grants for general operating support.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Chase Online Contest Draws Ire for Technical Glitches - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Chase Online Contest Draws Ire for Technical Glitches September 10, 2012, 6:24 pm By Cody Switzer The prospect of winning a grant from the annual Chase Community Giving contest prompts (..)

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Get an iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Young people or new people to the field would bring new ways of thinking and doing philanthropy; older people would die off (or merely retire). If you are interested in moving from giving grants to making social change, you have to use all the tools in your tool box. Giving away cash was the sixth C.

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Seattle Exercise Philanthropy Grant 102

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. Funders are increasingly conditioning grants upon the delivery of specific measures. The Center for Effective Philanthropy. As part of a.

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Research Culture Evaluation Arizona 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO 2012 conference is off to a great start. The GEO research released at the opening plenary suggests some candidates – stop processing so many papers and stop the annual grant treadmill in favor of longer term grants. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant.

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Culture Public Learning Reflection 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

LCF annually raises all of its operating and grant-making dollars and is currently, a $1.2M LCF inspires philanthropy from the Latino community and invests in community driven solution lead by Latino-based organizations. Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? Foundation with 4 core staff members.

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Results Foundation Community Learning 112

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. As a result, the dataset is only complete through 2012. Only Six Foundations Provide the Majority of NPTech Grants.

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America Tech New York City Foundation 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Yesterday was the fourth Giving Tuesday , a global day of community-driven philanthropy. It is the part of the “Give While You Live” philanthropy being championed by some of the world’s wealthiest people. Today is ThankYouWednesday because it was a huge success, including financial with 52% increase in giving.

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Philanthropy Global Participatory New York 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

While our field is very good at making sure staff spend sufficient time developing strategies and making grants, we are not yet as good at making sure that staff spend sufficient time on reflection, learning and the “back end” of the process, i.e., digesting grant reports, discussing them with grantees and disseminating results.

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Learning Seattle Knowledge Management Evaluation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Dave Doig, Director of Grants and Community Initiatives, Vancouver Foundation. Casey Foundation.

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Results Seattle Evaluation Michigan 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. (Full disclosure: Hewlett is a grant funder of CEP and a user of our assessment tools.).

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Seattle Chart Conference National 97

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Here are seven ways TechSoup is benefiting philanthropy. In 2012 , IT product donations started to open up to nonprofit foundations. The process for clearing an NGO to receive a grant is much faster and much less expensive than it used to be — starting at $250 per equivalency determination.

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Foundation Adobe NGO New York 36

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Scrub Daddy, a sponge based startup was valued at $1M in 2012, in 2015 they had over $20M in Revenue. in 2012 had revenues exceeding $9M in 2015. Tower Paddle Boards, a sporting goods startup was valued at $500k in 2012, in 2015 they had $7.2M So what does philanthropy have in common with ABC’s Shark Tank?

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Dallas Philanthropy ROI Foundation 20

Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

Public Good is a new donation platform from the people who revolutionized grassroots online giving for the 2012 Obama presidential campaign. Learning from the 2012 Obama Campaign. The way the Take Action Button works is described well in a recent Chronicle of Philanthropy story.

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Public Platform Donor Charity 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In addition, our work is praised in a report and recommendation for donors entitled “Human Rights and International Justice: Challenges and Opportunities at an Inflection Point,” which was commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies. First, last June, the HRP received a generous multi-year grant from The John D. and Catherine T.

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International Guatemala Colombia Analysis 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

At GuideStar we take for granted that outcome measures are more powerful than output measures. Jacob came to GuideStar from the Hewlett Foundation, where he led grantmaking for the Philanthropy Program. Between 2006 and 2012, he oversaw $30 million in grants that, together, aimed to build a 21st-century infrastructure for smart giving.

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Measure Metrics Nonprofit Ratio 50

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. The vast majority of nonprofits desire to serve their charitable beneficiaries, whether that is through the arts, health and human services, or grant-making. 3 October 2012. Sources: 1. BoardSource. Get another!

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Government Lesson Research Asia 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

This of particular obsession in my world — the world of Jewish philanthropy. After five years of grantmaking, many of our inaugural grants are beginning to bear fruit in ways that were anticipated – and many that were not. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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San Francisco Seattle Conference Knowledge 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

It is refreshing to hear the conversation about ‘how not to grant’ Thanks in large part to recent research by GEO and others, funders now see that to achieve the impact they want to see, they are adapting practices that nonprofits have been asking for, for years – GOS, multi-year funding, and capacity building.

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United States Seattle Attitude Fund 104

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Data published last year in the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows this trend clearly: online donations to nonprofits increased 14% in 2012 relative to 2011, while overall donations increased by only 1.5% The ASPCA is taking no contribution for granted. in the same period. But this trend has been uneven. The result?

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Online Fundraising Test Arizona 56

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. It is an exciting time.

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Internet API Taxonomy Conference 102

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

GrantStation is a set of tools and resources to help organizations identify and secure grant dollars.) Here’s how: Recency: We survey grantseekers, grant writers, and those involved in the grantseeking universe twice a year (spring and fall). Is it location or focus, or both, that affects grant dollars?

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Survey Grant Comparison Analysis 56

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

This day of giving is truly becoming an international movement and tradition gaining momentum each year since its founding in 2012. Are you tapping in to the increased posture of philanthropy on this day? Over 15,000 nonprofits across 68 countries participated this year, with an estimated $45.68

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Cancer Donation Grant Canada 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One notable aspect of the success of Gasland, which recently won the Emmy Award for documentary film, is the way director Josh Fox worked with grant makers at the Fledgling Fund to galvanize a movement that greatly amplified the efforts of traditional environmental groups.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 93

Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

A July 2012 approved decree by the Central Statistical Organization of Yemen now allows full access to its data to the public and Morocco has started to provide various organizations access to data based on bilateral agreements.

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. We are all pro-learning, and there’s little obvious downside risk in signaling that we want to be known for it.

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Conference Learning Effective Organization 92

Connection Cafe

JUNE 16, 2016

Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy is the longest running annual report on U.S. Giving USA is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. for three of the four years between 2012 and 2015. According to Giving USA, total charitable giving in the U.S. reached $373.25

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Giving Nepal Indiana Trend 20