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Blockchain Technology: What Is It and How Is It Relevant for Nonprofits?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At its core blockchain is a database technology. What makes blockchain unique as a database, however, is its distributed nature. Each node is required to verify transactions and store the same records in the database it hosts. As a database platform, a blockchain can support a range of applications, of which bitcoin is only one.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

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Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Online Grant Research Databases Grant research databases can help you narrow down your search and with a keyword search, you can find the funders best suited for your nonprofit. Candid offers their Philanthropy News Digest RFP Bulletin.

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How to Include Matching Gifts in Your Fundraising Plan

Connection Cafe

When your organization incorporates this form of corporate philanthropy into its fundraising strategies, you will find it much easier to reach your fundraising goals. The donor uses a matching gift database to search for their employer’s matching gift policy, determining whether they are eligible to have their donation matched.

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33+ Giving Tuesday Ideas: Expert Tips and Campaigns to Try

Bloomerang

It’s an opportunity to show supporters that their donation went through and to provide additional opportunities to maximize contributions like with a matching gift database. . Is the transaction entered into your donor database automatically? Don’t let this information simply sit in your database. Matching Gifts.

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Understanding the Reasons for Nonprofit Donor Churn

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based Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy titled “How Donors Choose Charities,” they conclude that: This conclusion is drawn from research in which they identify the most common reasons that donors give. Note that these steps assume that you are using a CRM or donor database to manage your data. In a report by the U.K.-based

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

First, we’re going to have like a little bit of an overview of what’s happening in the world of philanthropy. So what’s happening in philanthropy? So they provide emergency and longer-term, permanent supportive housing to individuals who are experiencing homelessness. It’s really kind of up to you. .

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