Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been surveying large American companies on their philanthropy annually since 2005.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This is because Candid’s data collection efforts have increased a great deal over the years (particularly around 2013-2015). It does not include pledges, government funds, or donations from high-net-worth individuals or public charities (all of which are contained in our broader data set).

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) have become one of the hottest tools in philanthropy over the last few years. While the funds have been around for decades, the 1990s ushered in an increasing interest in DAFs as financial planning and planned giving tools. What makes a donor-advised fund so attractive?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To be able to fully address the need for long-term recovery and the necessary rebuilding of infrastructure, funds need to be attributed to these geographic areas for a long time. The only way to ensure that there is enough funding available in the long-term for these unexpected events is to prepare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2013

For Nonprofits in the United States: 1) 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study :: Download. 3) Giving USA 2012: Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2011 :: Download. 9) 2012 Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact: The Future is Now :: Download. Published by M&R Research Labs. Published by Blackbaud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. billion to $4.8

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2013, it became one of the first airlines to outfit a portion of its fleet with split scimitar winglets. This isn’t disinterested philanthropy. Yet even evolving traditional philanthropy programs to a broader focus on social purpose can deliver meaningful results. It’s a good example of social innovation.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

You can support NTEN in Giving Tuesday and join Beth Kanter for a live discussion of collective philanthropy - get the details here. 2013 nten challenge Fundraising givingtuesday' The second annual GivingTuesday is on December 3rd and we''ve found 124 NTEN Members that are participating!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Finding corporate funding may be the trickiest of all funders to engage. Corporations and businesses sometimes create foundations or giving programs with funds generated from their profits. Michigan State University's list of service clubs and civic organizations that provide funding. Corporations and Grantmaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’ Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. SSIR Blog, January 2013.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Last week Blackbaud along with partners HJC, Sea Change Strategies, and Edge Research released findings from the 2013 Next Generation of Canadian Giving study. Among transaction channels, the future of telemarketing and giving by SMS/text does not look so great in Canada, but face-to-face and street funding is surprisingly strong.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

2016 was a record-setting year for philanthropy, with Americans donating more than $373 billion and communities across the globe setting new standards for #GivingTuesday. The Philanthropy Outlook from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy projects a 3.6 Even better news? percent in 2018. percent in 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. After processing about 66 donations per minute during their 2013 event, the website crashed at 12:30 p.m.—for for five hours.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 5, 2015

Crowdfunding Website Charidy Has Unique Formula for Giving-Day Success - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "A new model of crowdfunding and giving days is gaining traction among Orthodox Jewish nonprofits in the U.S. and abroad. via Blog this'

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The report, titled Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy, delves into all kinds of interesting questions about these donors. They were influenced by parents (89%), grandparents (63%), close friends (56%) and peers (47%) in their approach to philanthropy; and for most, a philanthropic mindset was instilled early on in life.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Codify, then adapt” (Paul, 2013). This involves identifying the core of the program’s model and isolating that fundamental structure to determine the “minimum specifications” – nonnegotiable aspects that must be in place in order to achieve impact (Bradach, 2003; Harris, 2010; Paul, 2013; Riddell & Moore, 2015; Sutton & Rao, 2014).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2015

of Americans are non-Hispanic whites , Americans of color still struggle for their voice in many areas of society, namely philanthropy. The underrepresentation of African-Americans and Hispanics suggests that organized philanthropy is not doing an adequate job of engaging non-white communities — Diversity in Giving.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

First we identified the titles we wanted to add—all requested by Bookshare non-student members, including some of the best science books of 2013 as reported by NPR’s Science Friday show. a11y accessibility Bookshare ebook giving philanthropy print disabilities Reading science SEChallenge Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge technology'

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Grant funding can be a great way for a nonprofit to boost its revenue, with giving by corporations and foundations in the United States in 2013 amounting to $67 billion. While that may help to win grants from some funders, other funders will want to take a more in-depth look into the organization and the program before awarding funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Would you stop doing crowd funding, social media infused fundraising and revert back to traditional methods of fundraising? Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The frequency of the survey ensures that the results are actionable now, and this information can be used as a steering mechanism for organizational growth, and as a real-word lens, to ensure that your organization stays competitive in the world of philanthropy. Is your organization’s location having an impact on your funding?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Editor's note — This blog piece by Micah Sifry touches on the still inadequate state of funding for nonprofit technology. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy platform reveals the state of nonprofit technology funding in a critical area in some detail. democracy. What the Data Reveals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Overnight, banks and financial institutions are in crisis, the stock market plunges, interest rates and housing prices drop, corporate sales and profits dip, employment lines grow, funds everywhere dry up. As the funding pot boiled down, nonprofit managers tightened our belts. Best of luck and hard work to all in 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. Tweeting Cow (@Cow1321443) November 20, 2013. With Dave Evans - Futurist At Cisco.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

Dr. Lucy Bernholz, in a report coproduced by Grantcraft , Stanford PACS and the Stanford Social Innovation Review , titled Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint for 2013 (hereafter, “the Blueprint”) challenges readers to think about a new paradigm which looks at all “private resources for public good” (p.2),

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

LEARN | Friday, March 14, 2013 : Where Does Technology Live and Who''s in Charge? CHANGE | Saturday, March 15, 2013 : The Future of Nonprofit Technology What is the future holding for us? Join a roundtable of experts to take a deep look at where technology belongs and who exactly is in charge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 is having some of my heroes speak at the event. REDF (also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) is a pioneer in fostering these types of charities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2013

Although these positive developments are possible, the Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the National Council of Nonprofits are well aware that there are many challenges and problems that have wormed their way into the system. Often, the agency has little choice in the matter due to budget or funding cuts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Instead of scaling community giving and philanthropy and empowering their local nonprofits to use crowd funding, Give Local America Day amplified frustration, panic, hopelessness, and anger. In 2013, GiveMN, one of the first and longest running Giving Days, experienced a catastrophic platform fail (on Razoo).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., “It costs money to bring in money,” McGinly said. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. In Philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

million raised, a 63% increase in total donations over 2013 according to the Case Foundation. Are you tapping in to the increased posture of philanthropy on this day? Cancer research funding is very competitive right now, but because of their strategic approach, CCS was top of mind by the time #GivingTuesday rolled around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The group’s leader is Martin Brookes , a British economist at a hedge fund, who got the idea after a phone call. Read Sector Blogs That Cover Data: If you want to stay current on data in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, the best place to go is Lucy Bernholz’s Philanthropy 2173 Blog. “A big U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

The company provides the software for processing the donations, finds national sponsors to help market and promote them, and solicits matching funds to help charities attract donors and raise money. This post originally appeared in the Chronicle of Philanthropy and is reposted here with the full permission of the author.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published their findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. A recent study says no. Fundraising'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

Its mission is to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education and certification programs. AFP’s president and CEO, Andrew Watt, is on the 2013 NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector. Do you have some under-appreciated funding technology resources that you like.

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