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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities , by ABFE and Candid  For every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average historically Black college and university (HBCU). This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S. communities face.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism.

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Report Urges Foundations To Jump Into The Waters of Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 I'm still wading my way through it. communications?

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. Too many of us have experienced programs that pulled out right when they’re doing so well because funding has changed, right? How do we do this well?

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Funding, guidance, volunteers, community engagement – all vital resources to sustaining a nonprofit – seem to be in short supply most days. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. Communications & Public Relations.

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Understanding the New Power of the Collaborative Economy for Social Good Sector

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Platforms like Wefunder allow start-ups to access funding from thousands of small investors rather than rely on a handful of very big ones. My favorite piece of advice is: “Occupy Yourself” What if there were an Occupy-style movement directed at you? It is made by many.