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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000? In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. private and community foundations. i Even though the Foundation 1000 makes up only about 1% of U.S.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am certainly not the first to observe that the internet has the potential to reshape the way people find and support causes and charities. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. that touches on the subject.

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Keynote by George McCully at NTC Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m a trustee of a small family foundation, not by family, thank god.??? In the last five years, 1,000 private foundations have been created in MA. The new foundations are the ones to go after. " He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. That’s not a claim I can usually make.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. from Sundance where she was busy running around asking celebs to join Six Degrees and getting them sign swag for charity.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Most colleges and universities, including community colleges, fall under the category of 501(c)(3) public charities within the U.S. Many of these institutions have foundations, which are separate 501(c)(3) entities that exist to raise and/or manage private support for a single institution or system of institutions.

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