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6 Places to Find Grants for Your Non-Profit

The Fundraising Authority

Ask your board members if they know of any family foundations, corporate foundations, or other grantmakers who might fund work like yours and if they would be willing to make an introduction to someone at that organization. Spend an hour playing around on Google , searching for foundations that fund non-profits like yours.

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3 Great Unusual Fundraising Ideas

The Fundraising Authority

What happens when you cross multi-level marketing with raising funds for your favorite charity? Set up a fundraising committee for your group, and task it with a dollar goal. Let’s say one of your group members finds 3 additional people to help. For example, a donor may buy medical care for two homeless clients for $200.

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#AI4Good: Artificial Intelligence & Wellbeing, Ethical Dilemmas, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is convening groups to work on a comprehensive global standard-setting process to provide AI with a strong ethical basis that protects human rights and dignity. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . Here’s just one example of the ethical issues we need to anticipate as we embrace AI. There are concerns.

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5 Fundraising Trends to Watch for in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A lot of time, effort, and preparation goes into ensuring end-of-year campaigns produce all the funds needed for organizations to sustain their important missions. Donors can make an individual or team fundraising page and collect funds on your organization’s behalf by soliciting their networks.

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Here’s What A Multimillion Dollar Gift Can Do For Your Organization

Bloomerang

Provide the funds needed to accelerate your mission. We always talk about impact and to make an impact, you need funding. For instance, look what a mega gift can do for a smaller nonprofit with a vision of launching a housing program for homeless families. The funding often is used to do assessments and plan for larger projects.

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Nonprofits can become more resilient by spending more on fundraising and admin ? new research

Pamela Grow

Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images Telesilla Kotsi , The Ohio State University and Alfonso J. Pedraza Martinez , University of Notre Dame Most food banks, homeless shelters and other social services nonprofits constantly face hard decisions about how to use their limited funds.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. For example, the International Fund for Animal Welfare shared the good news that zero rhinos were poached in 2020.

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