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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year. What’s the problem?

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Research Friday: Who grants the most? Who gets the most?

ASU Lodestar Center

In the quiz, we asked a few questions about Arizona's largest nonprofit organizations, in terms of assets, grantmaking, and donations. Who grants the most? The term grantmaker typically refers to a nonprofit organization that grants money to other nonprofits. Most of the grantmakers in Arizona are private foundations.

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Funding your nonprofit: Money’s out there if you know where to look

ASU Lodestar Center

I recently moved from the Midwest to attend graduate school for English rhetoric and composition at Arizona State University. Essentially, it’s a grant-seeking tool for Arizona nonprofits both big and small. and Arizona, there are very, very few resources that collect nonprofit grant information.

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Overcoming the Government-Nonprofit Dependency

ASU Lodestar Center

Federal, state and local governments increasingly depend on Social Service nonprofit organizations and, because of that dependency, have been willing to help fund them. government funding accounts for approximately one-third of the annual revenue received by nonprofit organizations, primarily through grants and contracts.

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Goal Setting for Your Nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

If your nonprofit mission is to end hunger in Arizona, the strategy may be to identify the areas of greatest need and set up food pantries in those areas. The short-term goals are the steps to get funding, food and/or money donations, and pantry locations. It sounds fairly simple but it’s easy to get lost in the details.

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13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas For Nonprofits & Charities

CauseVox

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. A giving day if you will. Valentine’s Day for victims of domestic abuse).

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

Although it had been in existence for 13 years, the organization had no audited financial statements, had only three board members (including the executive director), was not clear about how donor money was being spent, and had a clear conflict of interest with the executive director promoting personal book sales through the nonprofit.