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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. Some of the most notable donations include $100M+ to Fidelity Charitable, $29M to Donors Choose , $4 million to the Ellen Wildlife Fund , $50M to a dozen universities, and $56M to almost 60 different charities from an anonymous donor.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

To assist in the arduous grant research process, I’ve created this list of grant resources and funders according to a specific funding focus area: education. . Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Funding Priority: Education. They provide education tailored to girls’ needs.

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Guest Post: What Good Could Come After a No?

Twenty Hats

It was 2020, and I was already getting nervous about the every 17-year invasion of cicadas these nasty insects, due in the Washington, DC area in 2021. Susan Sanow, CVA, has spent much of her career working to improve the capacity of the nonprofit sector in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. I was more than nervous.

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Forum One Wins 10 Davey Awards

Forum One

Their work includes research, education for families and health professionals, support for families directly affected by the maternal health crisis, and advocacy. Their goals are to end preventable maternal health risks and deaths, end preventable preterm birth and infant death, and close the health equity gap. congressional districts.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. Washington? Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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Guest Post: The Iron Hug — Nurturing Relationships with Strong Leadership

Twenty Hats

In 2007, Lisa Marie graduated the George Washington University with her MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies and joined the staff at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, DC. Lisa Marie Porter, MA, CVA, has been working in Museums in the public sector since 2001.

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How can social innovation and enterprise help nonprofits create sustainable solutions to community issues?

ASU Lodestar Center

Alyssa Huntley is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Huntley is a web content specialist at the American Council on Education and earned her bachelor’s degree in English and history at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

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