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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. To cite just two interesting efforts: STRIVE is layering the use of robust data platforms on to local community organizing and social service delivery in Cincinnati and other cities.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

The SDG Philanthropy Platform aims to advance the SDGs by encouraging philanthropy, the UN, governments, the private sector and NGOs to collaborate. IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Key takeaways.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. The limitations of data related to racial or ethnic groups are even greater than in other areas. Even in the U.S., A new approach.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

In April, President Biden shared his American Families Plan , which aims to support low and middle-income families and children. billion in grants specifically for “community college education,” according to Candid data. Data gathered on September 13, 2021 from Foundation Maps. [2]Candid has awarded over $3.5 1]Excludes U.S.