Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. LinkedIn Profiles. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Beyond the obvious graphic design work, what’s exceptionally clever is that they have created long vertical profile pics that when cropped in Status Updates produce a solid, square avatar that’s seen by their Fans in their News Feeds. The question is, will these profile pics function similarly when the new Facebook Pages go live?

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Many small nonprofits find the cost of maintaining a robust website prohibitive, but you can create a Candid profile for free. Funders look to Candid profiles to guide their giving decisions. Platforms such as LinkedIn can also help you find and contact decision makers at foundations through your existing connections.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

foundations have websites. Foundation Directory : Nonprofits with annual revenue or expenses under $1 million that earn Candid’s Gold Seal of Transparency are eligible for free access to our prospect research tool through the Gold for Gold program. It’s free for nonprofits to update their profile and earn a Seal of Transparency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2023

To quickly learn new skills and improve your resume and LinkedIn profile, Nonprofit Tech for Good offers a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising and a Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising. nonprofits, foundations, and institutions of higher education.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

These basic LinkedIn Profile tips for nonprofit professionals serve as a foundation for when and if your nonprofit is ready to utilize LinkedIn Groups and Company Pages. In fact, as long as you follow the tips outlined here, you’ll probably want to add your LinkedIn Profile vanity URL to your résumé.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To reduce the burden on grantees to provide this data, this sector-wide initiative also empowers nonprofits to collect and share staff and board member demographics—one time—in a standardized, reusable, and freely accessible format on their Candid profiles. The process and timing of asking nonprofits for demographic data matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile – Guest Post by Jacob Harold, Guidestar. I am happy to officially debut our completely redesigned GuideStar Nonprofit Profiles. Our reorganized profiles offer a clearer view of each nonprofit organization. Today, we take a giant leap toward further achieving that vision.

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Candid

MARCH 19, 2024

We’re recapping the key takeaways from our recent webinar to make it easy for nonprofits to leverage Candid’s profiles for fundraising. Bronze and Silver Seal holders can simply log in to edit your nonprofit profile, confirm the details on your profile, and click “Publish.” But first: What is a Seal of Transparency?

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Foundation grants can be one of several revenue streams in a nonprofit organization’s sustainable fundraising plan. In 2022, foundation funding accounted for about $105.21 As a share of all revenue streams, including government funding, program revenue, and investment income, foundation and corporate grants made up 15.3%.

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Candid

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure your organization’s LinkedIn Page—and your own profile—convey credibility When deciding whether to accept a connection request from someone they don’t know, LinkedIn members will often click on your profile to get a better sense of who you are. It’s also worth reviewing your personal profile at roughly the same frequency.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

By better understanding the demographic profile of those organizations that are—and are not—receiving funding, we can more closely track if they are representative of the communities they serve and whether they are getting the support they need to deliver on their missions.

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Almost 100,000 nonprofits have claimed their Candid profile and updated it within the past two years to earn a Candid Seal of Transparency. And hundreds of foundations share details about their grantmaking through our e-reporter program. Finally, the richest data we have comes directly from organizations themselves.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2012

By making a strong case to its finance committee and board of directors for a major technology investment, The Community Foundation in Jacksonville has significantly improved productivity, security and technology planning.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Here are a few creative ideas for how to do so: Many DAF managers (including the ones listed above) use Candid profiles to evaluate nonprofits in order to recommend their individual donors fund them. They’ll search Candid’s nonprofit profiles using search tools to help them identify and compare nonprofits based on their geography (e.g.,

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

Boost your visibility using your Candid nonprofit profile link Give funders a transparent glimpse into your nonprofit’s mission-driven work and outcomes using the shareable link to your Candid profile. Find out if you qualify for a free year of Foundation Directory as part of our Go for the Gold program.)

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is making a bold and public move to use Candid’s GuideStar profile and demographic survey to track data from grant applicants and recipients. Brad: Nancy, what a pleasure to talk with you today about this groundbreaking partnership between the Packard Foundation and Candid.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

foundations (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Ford Foundation , and Hewlett Foundation ) share such data with Candid. These searches tend to focus on narrow, high-profile issues, such as Covid-19 or racial equity. based foundations. Hundreds of funders share grantmaking data directly with Candid.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While the IRS doesn’t require public disclosure of contributions to most nonprofits, it does require disclosure of contributions to private foundations. You can find this information in the “Who’s Who” section of the grantmaker profile on Foundation Directory. How can I find out what foundations support an organization?

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Candid

JANUARY 20, 2023

The best part: You can also leverage your profile as the perfect handout to showcase your programs and impact for in-person meetings with funders.  Note: Your Seal will expire automatically after two years if you do not update your Candid nonprofit profile ’s information.   Update or add information,  as necessary. 

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

With the combined resources of Foundation Center and GuideStar, we at Candid have a unique opportunity to build the most effective solution for providing information for and about nonprofits and funders. To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

TechSoup's partner in Africa, SANGONeT , has compiled case studies and profiles of the South African nonprofits and charities they serve. Published on SANGONeT's content portal, NGOPulse, the organizations profiled range from education, social outreach, poverty relief, environment, and more. Poverty Relief and Social Services.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is a great opportunity to leverage existing relationships with foundations or small businesses. Boost your online presence by optimizing your organization’s Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar. Check out this video for three easy steps to get your profile ready for giving season. Foundation?Directory Directory Online?Essential,?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Africa Wildlife Foundation cleverly uses its website domain name to promote their social media profiles by creating easy-to-type redirects. Promoting URLs effectively in print materials can be a challenge because URLs are often too long and difficult to type into a browser. Another idea is to use QR codes in print campaigns.

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2023

The reasons for this are many, but it is no coincidence that over 90% of foundation CEOs are white. Through Go for the Gold , a promotion we made permanent last year, organizations with budgets under $1 million can access Foundation Directory for free when they maintain a Gold Seal of Transparency through their Candid nonprofit profile.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. When we received a grant from the Bernard Newcomb Foundation in 2007 to take Bookshare international, I asked Viji to become Bookshare’s International Program Coordinator.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Glasspockets.org is a website sponsored by the Foundation Center that is focused on transparency among funders. foundations still don’t have websites, quite possibly intentionally. The objectives of the Glasspockets project are actually pretty simple: Inspire private foundations to greater openness in their communications.

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Candid

JUNE 12, 2023

Candid uses 990 data as a starting place for our nonprofit profiles and grantmaking databases. We urge foundations to share data with us directly as a data sharing partner so that the sector doesn’t have to wait 1.5–3 the Foundation 1000 research set). 3 years for grantmaking information. The post The 990s are here.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Many event-oriented online fundraising platforms, including Qgiv’s, integrate with CRMs and other tools, which can save you time you’d otherwise spend updating your donors’ profiles after a big event. The post How Community Foundations Can Raise More with Online Fundraising Tools appeared first on Qgiv Blog. Request a Demo.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 25, 2022

Four remarkable leaders, whose life experiences give them inspiration and strength, share their personal stories and reflect on their leadership journeys in conversations with Fred Ali, the retired President and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, and a former nonprofit leader.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Particularly, as many foundations have bolstered their efforts to collect demographic data from grantees, have changes in how we collect that data helped address inequitable funding practices and bring about systems transformation? We have conducted grantee profile analyses as well as cross-sectional comparisons by geography and issue area.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

And, for a deeper dive introduction to finding foundation grants, check out our free Introduction to Finding Grants course , which is available as a self-paced eLearning course, video, and live training. Using Candid’s Foundation Directory ,?you?can Video Transcript. making in the world.?Here’s Here’s a tip:?Use tell your story and?clearly?demonstrate?how

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

Since we started impala, by far the most common feedback we’ve heard across hundreds of interviews with nonprofits and foundations alike is that they’re skeptical. million nonprofit and philanthropic foundation profiles on our platform. Elizabeth Kane, Managing Director, Core Services, MacArthur Foundation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2012

The Foundation Center is the largest producer of directories and databases of grantgiving foundations. The Foundation Center provides many tools, including an " Online Librarian ," print resources, and a website for finding foundation profiles, trends in grantmaking, and top foundations by geographic region.

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Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

In addition to Candid’s vice president of influence Aleda Gagarin, the session featured Ellen Dickenson, senior vice president for research of United Way of Massachusetts Bay; Jeffrey Jimenez-Kurlander, learning and impact officer from the Surdna Foundation; and Kerrin Mitchell, co-founder of Fluxx.

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Candid

MAY 2, 2022

The Center embarked on this journey first by looking up their own Candid Profile on GuideStar to go through the steps to update it to see exactly what they’d be asking their members to do, how long it took, and how difficult it was. An updated Candid Profile checks all those boxes. . Turns out, it was a very reasonable process. .

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Its compelling aim promises to empower nonprofits to share vital information about their organizations, one time, on their Candid profile, where it can be accessed and re-used by all to reduce the inefficiency and reporting burdens faced when applying for funding. nonprofits and foundations. nonprofits and foundations.

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