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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. California Community Foundation. Kars4Kids Foundation. Lumina Foundation.

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How can nonprofits leverage digital technology to increase giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, a nonprofit raising funds for childhood cancer research may see that the majority of its donors are mothers under 40 years old. A study by Microsoft found that people lose concentration after only eight seconds. Nonprofits benefit from data collection to sort and track donors and personalize messaging. Make it easy.

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An Interview with Jessica Rauch about The Generation Project: Passionate about Teaching Young People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network of HASTAC, announced its second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. Tell me about you Education is my passion.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. It donates the products to impoverished people, preventing millions of hygiene-related deaths each year and encouraging vigorous childhood development (Clean the World, 2015).

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. And so we're going to have people like Rachel Naomi Remen speak. She's the author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and she's going to tell how to use story to change people's ideas and get your idea across. It's been very fast. laughing] And what else?

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Using Social Media To Accomplish More With Less

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Simplicity powers more informal connections between people, blurs boundaries, and enables nonprofits to scale efforts better than a single organization could. Los Angeles Universal Preschool Parent Ambassadors on Facebook. Preschool California uses Twitter to connect with journalists.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Kamala Harris.

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