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4 Steps For Funders To Shape Data For Applications, Benefits

The NonProfit Times

Funders can lead by example and establish new norms and higher expectations within their own organizations, with the organizations they fund and engage with, and in the subject areas and peers they influence.” What is the context in which the data is collected or used? What is your plan for public disclosure of data collected?

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation.

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Challenges of Establishing an Employee Relief Fund (ERF) and Recommended Solutions

sgEngage

The growth in Employee Relief Funds (ERFs) exploded in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 began to affect companies and their employees around the globe. This blog is based on LBG Associates’ and LBG Research Institute’s latest landmark study called Secrets to Building an Effective and Sustainable Employee Relief Fund. Source of Funding.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation.

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5 Things Colleges Can Do Right Now to Impact Fall 2024 Enrollment

sgEngage

The ongoing FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) delays have left students with less time to compare financial aid offers and make a college decision than in a typical year. According to the US Department of Education, about 330,000 federal financial aid applications will need to be reprocessed following yet another data error.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent).

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

sgEngage

People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. As many have observed, participatory funding models have likely existed for centuries in the form of mutual aid or community support. Those at the top decide. In recent years, that model is being challenged.