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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

To assist in the arduous grant research process, I’ve created this list of grant resources and funders according to a specific funding focus area: education. . Literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade, is their primary focus because reading skills form the foundation for all childhood learning. State Street Foundation.

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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

sgEngage

Leadership is both a process/action and a result, but we often only hear about the results of good leadership. Advocacy and Policy Support: Foundations possess a unique position of influence and can leverage their voice to advocate for systemic change. Historically, community leadership has been more of a concept versus an action.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

They discussed ways that technology can improve services for people experiencing food insecurity, as well as the policy changes, investments, and cross-sector partnerships that are necessary to drive meaningful, lasting change. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. “ Jennifer Thall. Emilio Tavarez.

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The Importance of the Thank You: Creating an Attitude of Gratitude

NonProfit Hub

From early childhood, we are taught the magic words: thank you. Developing a donor-centric gift acknowledgment policy is key to ensuring that our donors feel appreciated and our board members are excited about fundraising—a win-win for any organization! Invite board members into the thank you process.

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Two Ways To Use Crowdsourcing for Face-to-Face Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing is the process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. The conference brings together professionals who working on early learning research, practice, and policy to promote improvement and expansion of services for children ages 0 to 5 in the state.

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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Director of Programs and Policy answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get better results. LCF was inspired by the potential impact of this policy and wanted to ensure that all Latino families that could, would take advantage of this new policy. Or would you learn, pivot, and improve?

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What Mesh Businesses Should Support Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A number of standard philanthropy business processes, like financial due diligence, come to mind. The platform he’s building contains information on 60,000 people (the “base”) who are interested in advocating for a variety of policy changes to combat childhood obesity.