article thumbnail

Weekly update from PND

Candid

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. Amazon has announced commitments totaling $161.5 Read more.

article thumbnail

NCOA Gets $8M Gift From Scott

The NonProfit Times

Funds will support work to address “systemic inequities that make it more difficult for women, people of color, LGBTQ+, low-income and rural Americans to age with dignity,” according to the Arlington, Va.-based It’s the largest unrestricted gift in the 72-year history of the organization.

Gift 97
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training. For me, the key to this report is that we can’t determine the success of a major fundraising initiative solely by the amount of funds it raises. Just as organizations (usually!)

Community 158
article thumbnail

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.

Guam 124
article thumbnail

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

sgEngage

The second largest category overall is to academic divisions and departments (18.6%), where some funds may support student scholarship. We encourage advancement teams to address these issues forthrightly. CASE is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.