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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

In this post, I’ll share funding and grant resources for nonprofits involved in the education sector. Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Funding Priority: Education. The Lisa Libraries. First Book.

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2009 DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

The challenge runs throughout October, with hundreds of bloggers and Twitterers rallying to support classroom requests on DonorsChoose.org. All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country.

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Finding Funding with the Foundation Center

Tech Soup

Identifying potent ial funding sources that align with your nonprofit's or library's mission is a constant challenge. Through data, analysis, and training, the Foundation Center helps organizations and individuals research, identify, and connect with potential funding sources. About the Foundation Center.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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TechSoup and The Foundation Center Are Joining Forces

Tech Soup

Our goal is to leverage our extensive and complementary networks of individuals and organizations to provide knowledge, training, and tools to nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs around the world. Finding Funding with the Foundation Center using Foundation Directory Online. Library learning centers in five locations across the US.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. A volunteer manager at a library in Oregon explains why translation tools are not enough: A couple years ago there was a Spanish language Facebook page for the library.

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How to Host a Read-a-thon Fundraiser

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While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. When they better understand how your organization is using the funds they raised, they’ll be more likely to participate in another peer-to-peer fundraiser in the future.

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