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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe one is that Giving Tuesday becomes an official national holiday or becomes an annual event like Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday takes a lot of these ideas and blends them together. More difficult to measure is the transformation of how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

The Awesome Foundation. New Earth Foundation. Cornell Douglas Foundation. Kellogg Foundation. Whole Kids Foundation. Emeril Lagasse Foundation. The Barney Family Foundation. Change Happens Foundation. The Harry Chapin Foundation. Johnson Scholarship Foundation. Burkle Foundation.

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Be A Citizen Reviewer for New Foundation Effort

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Allison Fine The Case Foundation is looking for some folks to serve as external reviewers for the first part of its new grantmaking effort focused on igniting citizen-centered community work across the country. The Foundation has received some great applications from a number of people across the country.

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A Jargon-Free Guide to Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3C)

NonProfit Hub

In this blend, an L3C is a private organization that does earn profits, but only so that it can conduct business to help a certain cause. L3Cs were designed to make it easier for socially responsible businesses to attract money from foundations and private investors. In essence, it operates to better social welfare in some way.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94

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Security: The Scary Part of Cloud Computing

Tech Soup

It was a one-day in-person free workshop, thanks to funding from Google Foundation , and attracted an impressive array of smart and informed nonprofit technologists. NTEN chose him to present on cloud security and financing because he has a unique blend of accounting expertise, technology know-how, and nonprofit industry understanding.

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As people of good will tackle these challenges of the status quo, we’re gathered here in New Orleans to talk about a new and exciting movement that offers a chance to blend some of the best of those three different sectors and to create innovative solutions to the problems at hand. Right now it seems like we can’t afford government as usual.

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