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6 Practical Tips for Promoting Your #GivingTuesday Campaign on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Other hashtags related to childhood cancer include #findacure, #gogold, #morethan4, #littleheros, etc. I for one did not know before writing this post that the childhood cancer community knows the National Cancer Institute only gives less than 4% to research and to cure all types of childhood cancer.

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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. Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C., private and community foundations.

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Now that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals have expired and in some ways, have succeeded surprisingly well , the UN has developed a new set of even more ambitious goals. Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. I'll say more about that below.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Businesses can do what they want, and while I applaud the move towards philanthropy, it's my opinion (disclaimer: and not necessarily the opinion of the nonprofit that employs me) that this is not the way to do it. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Businesses can do what they want, and while I applaud the move towards philanthropy, it's my opinion (disclaimer: and not necessarily the opinion of the nonprofit that employs me) that this is not the way to do it. Each Facebook user, after authorizing the Chase application, got 20 votes to distribute among their favorite charities.

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An Interview with Jessica Rauch about The Generation Project: Passionate about Teaching Young People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in General Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education. Tell me about your project, The Generation Project The Generation Project is a new charity that seeks to revolutionize educational philanthropy by giving donors creative control over their gifts to kids in low-income communities.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. 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).

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