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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. They provide education tailored to girls’ needs. State Street Foundation.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. Around this time, we also introduced the Philanthropy Classification System —a detailed coding system that provided more nuanced ways to explore this larger data set.

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards. Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The guiding principle of the awards is to “apply a Silicon Valley mindset to social innovation.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

They award grants for educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future. The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. Areas served: Worldwide. Cornell Douglas Foundation.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Improving childhood nutrition. His innovation is the PEEK software tool : a low-cost smartphone ophthalmic system that delivers comprehensive eye examinations in the developing world, to those who need it most. Old-fashioned cooking methods kill millions each year. He now lives in rural Kenya working on eye care.

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

Folks from every aspect of our society, and every profession are involved in the food system. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient. There's lots of excitement, but now we have to prove that this works.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

Qgiv

The AFP Exchange hosted vendors from all facets of fundraising, donor management systems, consultants, email systems, and more. Birgit interviewed Misty on the challenges she faced throughout her childhood, and her journey to become the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre.