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Weekly update from PND

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million to help preserve affordable housing in Arlington County, Virginia, and Nashville, Tennessee. Paul-based Bush Foundation has announced the NDN Collective and Nexus Community Partners as the steward organizations of two community trust funds seeded with $100 million. Giving Pledge announces 2021 signatories. Read more.

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NCOA Gets $8M Gift From Scott

The NonProfit Times

One of the few known gifts in the latest round of giving by author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott was an $8-million gift to the National Council on Aging (NCOA). My commitment to sharing information about my own giving has never wavered,” Scott wrote, committing to posting updates twice every 12 months or so.

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

. —– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training.

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BBB Mobile Giving Foundation is Partnership of Two Leaders - BBB News Center

AFP Blog

BBB Mobile Giving Foundation is Partnership of Two Leaders - BBB News Center : February 21, 2012 (Arlington, VA) – Mobile giving is quickly becoming a critical tool for charities to raise much-needed funds, especially when disaster strikes.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rare, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, uses Miradi in all its worldwide campaigns to promote biodiversity and has translated the Miradi software into Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin and Spanish. Elaina learned how to use Miradi while working on a Guam watershed plan with CMP member The Nature Conservancy.

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NorthJersey.com: Texting donations brings in millions for Haiti

AFP Blog

NorthJersey.com: Texting donations brings in millions for Haiti: "Michael Nilsen, senior director of public affairs for the Association of Professional Fundraisers in Arlington, Va., compared the sudden jump in text fund raising to the way online giving broke into the public consciousness following the 9/11 attacks.“One

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Charitable Giving in Higher Education: A Conversation with CASE’s Sue Cunningham

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The following Q&A is excerpted from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report Spotlight: Using 2020 Data to Transform Your Higher Education Institution’s Strategy. The CASE Voluntary Support of Education Survey (CASE VSE) indicates that the majority of restricted giving to endowments is given for student financial aid (39.7%