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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. Here are a few highlights of what we have learned in the past month: Candid has identified 310 grants worth $143.9 70% of grants and pledges were made with identifiable announcement dates, with 83.5% An estimated 2.2

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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. Not because of the unusually big grants, but because most of them are members of our TechSoup family. Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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From Startup to Social Enterprise … with Rebecca Masisak at the Helm

Tech Soup

Specifically, leading a 9 to 5 life at a job where you "increase shareholder value" and "exceed client expectations," while at night, you spend your precious spare hours working for a cause you love … maybe pug rescue, meals for the homeless, or mental health advocacy … all to make a difference.

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Goal Setting for Your Nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Review the mission statement - cure cancer, end homelessness, provide affordable housing for working families - whatever it is, ask yourself if the programs from last year helped the organization reach its goals. What will you do differently this year? From WHY comes strategic planning and goal setting.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. c) Grant of Rights to Sponsor. Ready to enter?

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Trends in Grantmaking: Bring Your Community into Your Decision-Making Through Participatory Grantmaking

sgEngage

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. Through the principles they list on their website, they give multi-year, unrestricted funding with a low-barrier grant process.