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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Funding Priority: Education. Global Fund For Children. Daniels Fund.

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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination, and disadvantage for young people and children. Without the power of sport, they wouldn’t have had an opportunity to dream and be children again. Among its successes: 72,878 children and young people became less socially isolated.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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Mother's Day for Peace

Have Fun - Do Good

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. They have programs in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East and Cyprus. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction.” By 1994, investors had access to 26 sustainable funds, with assets of around $1.9 Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . .

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa), talked about the opportunities in market failure. Pointed out that most of the public does not know what social entrepreneurship is, and that in the nonprofit world it is such a buzzword that all groups seeking funds are saying they are social entrepreneurs.