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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . First Book. The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants. First Book.

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Signals - Stoplights for student success

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At the STS meeting in Kyoto, I had the pleasure of meeting France Córdova, the president of Purdue University. Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! For example, an accessible version of a key book or item of course content.

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Why Diversifying Your P2P Strategy is Critical to your Organization’s Health

sgEngage

In the Blackbaud Institute’s incredible npExpert free e-book, The Great Reset: Moving Into the New Normal with Intention , Dr. Una Osili opens with some key findings from the last year of fundraising data compiled by the Lilly School of Philanthropy. So where should you start with diversifying your P2P fundraising?

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Concurrent Fundraising Events: 3 Ideas to Boost Revenue

Get Fully Funded

Available funds are low, and you know it will take more than one fundraiser to get your books where they need to be. About the Author Matthew is a 1999 graduate of Grand Valley State University with a degree in film and computer science. Your nonprofit has several needs and limited resources.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Universal Analytics is the new version of this free web tracking tool and can take some time to understand.

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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

ASU Lodestar Center

As told in the 12th chapter of the “Book of Judges” in the Christian bible, the Ephramites tried to blend in with the locals as they were fleeing the country. in organizational sociology at the University of Minnesota with a study of the causes of nonprofit organization closure. How do you sort out the bad guys?

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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