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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit might have wide application for organizations targeting a specific element of the population for assistance. In declarations filed with the court, all three asserted they “meet the nonracial requirements for the contest.” Code § 1981. That is not enough for standing.”

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Great reads from around the web on January 26th

Amy Sample Ward

Love of Philanthropy Photo Contest « Vivanista | Living Well. – "Join Vivanista in sharing the love of philanthropy by participating in our Love of Philanthropy photo contest that showcases images of what it means to be philanthropic." So we need to remember that with social media! Doing Good.

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Upcoming Webinar March 29: Mapping Philanthropy - Data Visualization for Good

Tech Soup

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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Razoo's Speedgranting and Change Your World Contest

Have Fun - Do Good

It's a sister company of Geneva Global: Performance Philanthropy. SpeedGranting : A Facebook funding application. Once enough people "validate" (vote for) the project, it becomes active and visible to anyone using the SpeedGranting application. Razoo social network net2 philanthropy water Good Happens : Their blog.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

" In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities. "Their money, our votes." " pleas.

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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

Amy Sample Ward

While idea challenges and social media contests are increasingly used by corporations, governments and in philanthropy, ideas4Oregon.org has a far larger potential fiscal reward than most. After all ideas are in, MMT will use them to craft a Request for Proposals, inviting applications to make a case for funding from the $1 million.

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