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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. 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.

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

Connection Cafe

In many cases, they find that long-term approaches must address the need to develop national capacities of philanthropic actors and their civil society partners and grantees. 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.

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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. Their largest grant of $16.5 Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. has awarded over $3.5