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

Connection Cafe

CAF America launched the IGS last year around the shared belief that international philanthropy can, and should be, a powerful force in our effort to address the world’s most pressing issues. This was a very timely panel as we have all felt the momentum build behind philanthropy for the SDGs. The Key to Cross-Sector Partnerships.

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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. Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work.

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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. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance. Even in the U.S., There are two driving factors.

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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. Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations.