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JUNE 1, 2007

Grant deadline is June 15th. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own. The complete information is here.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices , is now accepting project proposals for the second round of micro-grant funding of up to $5,000 for citizen media outreach projects.

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JULY 5, 2016

You can search and visualize media funding by the following: Show Grants By : Explore data for funders (blue) or recipients (orange). More Filters and Advanced Search: Tailor your search by funder type, grant amount, population served, keyword and more. List: View and sort foundation, recipients and grants data in table form.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

Re-inspire your sense of mission by participating in the Heart & Soul grant. The CTK Foundation has just launched the 2012/2013 Heart & Soul Grants , with over $55,000 to assist nonprofits like yours in accomplishing your mission. How do you apply for these grants? Two $5,000 Grant Awards to 2 US Nonprofits.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The ScreenTime Genie , a clever chat bot designed by the BJ Fogg’s Behavioral Science Lab at Stanford can help grant your wish for reduced screen time. There are apps and other technology tools that can help you create a new habit, healthier habits.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

During the Q/A after the presentation, one of the most frequent questions asked has been, “Will Facebook be making grants to nonprofits?” Many of us who work with nonprofits on technology, like my colleague John Haydon , agree that nonprofits need a Facebook Ad Grant program much more than a donation button. Fundraising'

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

And, now, there's a new grant program that encourages kids to come up with some ideas themselves. Do Something 's Del Monte grant offering $2500 grants for kids who come up with great healthy living programs for their community. So I'm delighted to turn to the bloghersphere for ideas and suggestions for healthy snacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. Rather, the question grant-makers and nonprofits should ask is what kinds of capacity building will achieve the desired outcomes and optimize mission-related impacts.

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JULY 16, 2019

There are grant deadlines, events dates, and campaign milestones — and many of Gantt Chart with deliverable dates for projects. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Here are a few examples: A veteran grant writer offers guidance to a novice grant writer that helps him or her achieve greater results. Most nonprofit leaders are too stressed out or distracted to find that trusted friend or colleague who’s walked in their shoes. But allies (mentors, peers, friends) are often essential for success.

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MARCH 1, 2011

So, when I heard about this grant program, I just couldn’t resist having a guest post about it. This year’s Heart & Soul grant program , put on by the CTK Foundation Fund, is designed to do just that. There is a quick turnaround on these grants. Panelists told their case studies as poems. Guest post by Juan A.

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MAY 3, 2017

Fund for Shared Insight (Shared Insight), a funder collaborative that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy, has released a national open request for proposals for its signature initiative, Listen for Good (L4G). If you answered an enthusiastic “Yes!” to these questions, keep reading!

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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JUNE 19, 2013

Best Selling Author Adam Grant, “ Give and Take ” will be doing a big session called “ It’s About Science! Grant raises a question, “Can people build up networks that have breadth and depth using different reciprocity styles? Points of Light annual Conference on Volunteering and Service kicks off today.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Google’s challenge was not about cold hard cash, although they did award sizable grants and funding. Our work is about saving lives, not for getting Chinese food delivered at 2 am.” ” . More importantly it was about innovation and partnerships between those who are close to the problems and techies.

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MAY 12, 2011

Paula Goldman shared some thoughts about foundation intent in using social media, particularly amplifying grantees work and thought leadership. In addition, Kathy Reich, mentioned the potential of using social media to help inform and improve grant-making strategy. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Adam Grant recently shared some research that suggests we should create a meeting norm that encourages us to keep our cameras-off to fight zoom fatigue. If you can’t avoid long stretches of meetings, give yourself an “audio only” break. Not only turn your camera off, but turn away from the screen to reduce the cognitive load.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Unrestricted and capacity-building support held steady, and foundations even reduced grant approval times from an average of 90 to 60 days. The survey can help convince trustees who, for example, still object to the idea of making grants for general operating support. It can be codified and learned.

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MAY 22, 2018

A Culture of Wellbeing as a New Nonprofit Strength: Building Capacity During a Time of Disruption – guest post by Heather McLeod Grant, Adene Sacks, & Kate Wilkinson. Heather McLeod Grant is the cofounder of Open Impact, a social impact advising firm, who has 25 years of experience working with social change leaders.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Grant Managers Network Conference: March 18th. I’ll be headed to San Diego for the annual Grant Managers Network Conference. There are also lots of fun social events, like NTCBeer. And, I’m leading “ NTC Walkers ” – join me to keep fit during the conference.

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MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO research released at the opening plenary suggests some candidates – stop processing so many papers and stop the annual grant treadmill in favor of longer term grants. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant. What are foundations willing to STOP doing in order to make time for learning?

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JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins. Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3 Global Giving will vet contest applications to ensure they meet the requirements — for example, grant proposals may not contain profanity or involve political advocacy for a particular party.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Guest Post By Heather McLeod Grant. Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley Guest Post By Heather McLeod Grant Why are Silicon Valley community-based nonprofits struggling to meet demand, and having a hard time maintaining their organizational health? Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

In a previous session at GEO, Marie Colombo said that the Skillman Foundation had to create a new job—program officer for change making— who does not give away grants, but is involved in social change. If you are interested in moving from giving grants to making social change, you have to use all the tools in your tool box.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Adam Grant said it well, “Having fun isn’t an enemy of efficiency. Joyful means experiencing or causing happiness for yourself or others. Fun doesn’t mean goofing off or not working hard, but laughing and enjoyment that can be energizing. It’s fuel for finding flow. Play isn’t a reward for finally making it through your to-do list.

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JULY 19, 2018

The WEB Network’s Design Team is excited to roll out a Network Activation Seed fund which will make small grants of $3,000 $6,000 available for learning and activities that will help grow this network. You can read about the fund, examples of fundable activities and the easy application process through this deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

You’ve smiled through back-to-back-to-back-to-back meetings with donors and your best donor prospect just cancelled on you, and now you’ve got to finish that grant report before you can go home. … Read More

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The Case Foundation is giving away $650,000 in grants and prizes as part of its initiative, Finding Fearless , with REI & Microsoft !

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

My colleagues, Heather McLeod Grant and Adene Sacks, have just published a new workbook called “ Leading Systems Change.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

If learning in public means showing our vulnerabilities – be it less than primped up data sets or underperforming grant investments – then the risk of the ‘gotcha’ environment must be tempered down. I mean if we’re going to learn in public, it better be a collegial and supportive environment.

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JULY 13, 2011

Since 1997, the Packard Foundation has awarded 1,392 “organizational effectiveness” grants to an array of groups, most of which have annual operating budgets of $1 to $10 million, and operate in the human services, environmental conservation, population, and arts fields. Essentially, the work was more transactional than transformational.

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MAY 21, 2013

The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community!

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JUNE 30, 2016

A survey of grant data from IssueLab’s parent, the Foundation Center , shows that in 2012, U.S.-based based private and community foundations made more than $210 million in grants for evaluation or research. Our sector—foundations, nonprofits, and university-based research centers—is producing knowledge at a rapid clip.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

For years, I’ve been a vocal critic of Facebook’s policy not to provide advertising grants to nonprofits. Winners also earn grants (between $1,000 and $5,000) for the organizations featured in their essays. Winners are announced on #GivingTuesday, December 1, 2015. Looks like the 2015 Giving Season is now underway!!

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

I heard several people at the Grant maker’s Gathering on Networks say that networks are beautiful. Bob Agres Executive Director of Hawai’i Alliance for Community Based Economic Development said that network weaving is the humility to discover the unique gift of each person you encounter and to connect it with a need. That’s beautiful.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. Consider benefits and risks of using grant applications and reporting process to assess grantee capacity-building. Engage grantees in the evaluation design and implementation.

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