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

Candid

This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom. 2002-2012 – Childhood 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. private and community foundations.

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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Due the rapid speed of technological advancement, from this point forward nonprofits will have to embrace multiple communications and fundraising tools if they want to reach donors and supporters of all ages. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens.

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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. It isn’t just about collecting data or the tools to collect the data – it’s also the sense-making and having it be embedded in the nonprofit’s culture. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. p/QTTfRJlZjl/. p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

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. Raising money in 2012 will require creativity and foresight. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Research Friday: The Self-Sufficiency Standard

ASU Lodestar Center

The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants. The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Arizona 2012 , is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool that can be used by agencies and individuals to help Arizona’s families make real progress toward economic security.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. We''ve developed program formats and tools that allow us to slot in and support partners without constantly reinventing the wheel.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As CEO Brad Damphousse explained to TechCrunch in 2012, the company’s growth was “due to the maturation of payment processing — allowing individual users to accept credit card payments — as well as social platforms like Facebook, which tie campaigns to identity and link them to people users know.”. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2012.