Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

The James Irvine Foundation is one of the largest grantmaking institutions in California. The James Irvine Foundation was founded in 1937 during the great depression, largely in response to the great social needs from that era. Over the years it has provided more than $1 billion in grants to over 3,000 California nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Technology and Its Emerging Impact on Foundation Communications " is a new report that describes how philanthropy communications professionals are using social media. It was underwritten with the generous support of The California Endowment t, Edna McConnell Clark , and Robert Wood Johnson foundations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tying together rescue operations, grants management, and donor data they have a full understanding of what is happening in various countries, quantified by data, showing that programs work. education in the East Bay, California and beyond. The data shows that certain countries are seeing an 80% reduction in violence against children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. Heather McLeod Grant is the founder and principal of McLeod-Grant Advisors, and a published author, speaker/trainer, and consultant with more than twenty years experience in the social sector.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. I got a chance to talk to the C2C chief operating officer, Brian Vahaly, this week, and he reports that they are making headway. How the Project Got Going.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation. Lewis Foundation. Caryn York.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. We’ll be in California in January, we just left. So we’re going to dive in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Do nonprofits and foundations listen to the people they seek to help and act on what they hear? And, more disturbingly, even though a majority of foundation CEOs believe seeking beneficiary feedback will increase their impact, fewer than half of nonprofits receive funding to collect feedback. The answer is…sort of….

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Foundation. One organization that showcases this approach is the San Diego Futures Foundation (SDFF). In 2008, SDFF received a grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund, which enabled SDFF to fully develop their digital divide program and expand the number of families they could reach. more than 20 years.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. Democracy happens at a local level still, so we still need that kind of civic, local reporting.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

Every time that I talk about how arduous grant writing is, inevitably someone will say something like, “That’s why you should focus on individual donors! A third say more than 75% of their revenues come from foundations. A third say more than 75% of their revenues come from foundations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

CC also reported a significantly increased web presence and that it had engaged a much different constituency of young donors that the organization had not seen before—great potential for the future. Capps is currently the senior director of development for the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis in California.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. session during the Legal Services Conference Technology Initiative Grant Conference.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 13, 2021

This includes a new edition of Marketing Cloud — Marketing Cloud for Nonprofits —as well as innovation to help organizations accelerate digital fundraising, manage program attendance, and enhance many grant making processes. For example, Grants Management customers can connect to their accounting data. Coming in August.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 13, 2022

In this release, we’re enhancing our solutions in fundraising , marketing and engagement , program management and grants management. In our recent Trends Report , 72% of respondents say their donors expect remote access to key impact performance metrics (KPIs). New innovations in Grants Management accelerates funding decisions.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

The CDC Foundation Now is the time for our collective communities and organizations to band together. With NPSP and Sales Cloud, the CDC Foundation was able to configure business processes, capture the full range of their fundraising efforts, and inform their critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic. . Read More ».

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. I''ve learned a lot from Irvine Foundation staff and partners directly. It''s the first report in a long time that I am sharing with my board.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

Nearly 20,000 residents have been asked to evacuate their homes in Northern California as a result of the multiple wildfires that have been burning for weeks, and CNBC has reported that more than 16,000 homes have been threatened by potential damage from the wildfire at this point, leading to evacuation orders for nearly 25,000 residents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Heather McLeod-Grant has written up an important lessons learned report about the project and summarized they key findings in the guest post below. By Heather McLeod Grant. Collaboration grants to support projects and partnerships that reached across sector, field, issue, and constituency.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

There are more than enough people in the field who are enthused about active participation, and recent reports like the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change have sparked field-wide conversations about how philanthropy might more equitably support institutions that serve marginalized communities.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Give us the weather report. This is not the matriarch of the foundation. George heard about this and he grabbed his phone and he videoed a whole bunch of people saying, “Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation. It was sent to the matriarch of the foundation within a half an hour, 45 minutes of receiving their mail.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2020

I raise funds for Starr King School for the Ministry, located in Berkeley, California. Now, granted $2 million of that was asked for in-person the week prior, but $700,000 is still a great week’s work in my book. Download the Free Blackbaud Institute Report: Supporters In Sight Part 2: A Look at Affluent Donor Personas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) Prior to moving to California, I donated thousands of my nonprofit, technology, and social media books to nonprofit libraries through some giveaways on my blog. and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

These women are going to be partnering with the teams who are going back into their communities with seed grants to launch their projects. The Global Peers will be reporting out on the successes of the women in communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. They're going to work with these teams over the course of the year.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She cites the City of Oakland California’s Open Data Platform that make over 50 datasets viewable and understandable to the public including ones on crime, city infrastructure, parks and recreation facilities, and green businesses. She is a Fellow at the New American Foundation. and European Foundation Centers.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

Nonprofits and charitable foundations witness similar disparities when it comes to the health, economic security, and well-being of historically marginalized communities. Because nonprofits and charitable foundations also frequently apply a race-conscious lens, they girded themselves for a potentially devastating case outcome.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Based on our recent State of Marketing Trends Report , innovation, collaboration, engaging constituents in real time, and evolving digital constituent experiences continue to be top nonprofit challenges. Globally, we’re also enhancing our solutions in fundraising , marketing & engagement , program management , and grants management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Attended a networking events for social entrepreneurs, such as the one organized by the Schwab Foundation (the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos), where we brainstormed about different issues. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India.

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