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Guidance for making grants to support Ukraine

Candid

This piece provides guidance for funders on making grants to support Ukraine. While we don’t suggest the specific organizations you should support, we are regularly updating a list of response funds up to date on our website. Funding through an intermediary or pooled fund hosted by US organization, or.

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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

Over the past few years, nonprofit organizations have been at the forefront of change. Salesforce.org recently highlighted both Cloud for Good and CARE, a nonprofit organization seeking to save lives, defeat poverty, achieve social justice, and fight for women and girls, as part of the Changemakers video series.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

When a crisis occurs—whether it’s the war in Ukraine or the COVID-19 pandemic—people seek up-to-date information. In the social sector, the questions that often emerge are: Which organizations are addressing the crisis? based organization, Candid’s data collection relies heavily on sources written in English.

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The Bots Face Off – Or Do They? ChatGPT Versus Bard

.orgSource

It’s built on a neural network architecture known as a transformer, which enables it to handle complex natural language tasks effectively. So, for this bot, COVID is a thing and war has yet to erupt in Ukraine. If you have a tendency to Geekiness, read more about their backgrounds here. Its information is up-to-the-minute.

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The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap  

Candid

tax-exempt organizations file annually, are a major source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the United States. For one, busy and understaffed organizations are requesting filing extensions—the IRS expects roughly 762K tax-exempt extensions for fiscal year 2022. Case in point: 990 data. IRS Form 990s, which U.S.

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CDP recommendations for philanthropy and COVID-19

Candid

This year, we are asking funders to recognize that sustained financial attention is at the heart of effective recovery from the pandemic. Does your funding for humanitarian recovery in Ukraine allocate for health care resources to address the compounded traumas of COVID-19 and displacement? Flex your funding.

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In Times of Crisis, You See Nonprofits Helping, Solving, Rebuilding

Saleforce Nonprofit

I had the opportunity to sit down with Yaroslav Ivakhno, Coordinator of Resource Mobilization, who shared that when donations suddenly began pouring in from around the world, the organization was not equipped to accept donations in foreign currency. Slack allows you to automate workflow for common processes in your organization.

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