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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

This blog provides a brief overview of Juneteenth and the role that HBCUs have played as guardians of Black history and Black futures. . Looking back at the history of Juneteenth and HBCUs. When we talk about history, we always say we teach the past while we teach the future. We have to pour into that next generation.

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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW. This topic was especially relevant….

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Friends of Dallas Animal Services: Creating Limitless Possibilities for the Animals of Dallas

DipJar

In the case of kitten season, FODAS funding provides support for mothers and their kittens, taking care of orphaned kittens, purchasing incubators, and the fostering/adoption process. But the history and relationship of these two organizations goes back further – and is broader – than this one important program.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

Carolyn has many years of hands-on experience working in the trenches of nonprofit fundraising across Texas and beyond. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas! She’s known for tackling seemingly impossible fundraising efforts and turning them into success stories.

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Going Viral: How One Organization Was Transformed by an Unexpected Windfall

ASU Lodestar Center

Think of all that you could do with those extra funds—give your hard-working staff a well-deserved raise, pay off your organization’s debt, replace your cobbled-together computer systems, serve 10 times the number of clients whom you served last month, even provide the employee training and education that you’ve deferred for the past decade.

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Member Round Up: Opportunity Awaits!

NTEN

Get your browser tabs ready: below are ways you can apply for funds, share your organization's best videos, win free webinars, and more. The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14.

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2012 SXSW Interactive Roundup

NTEN

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. The threat to defund Planned Parenthood was bundled in a larger packaged proposal of funding cuts to be….