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Weekly update from PND

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Wellcome, Gates pledge $300 million to prevent future epidemics. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and London-based Wellcome have pledged an additional $150 million each to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help end the COVID-19 pandemic and prevent future pandemics. January 20, 2022. January 20, 2022.

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

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Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue.

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Independence Day, 2011

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Census Bureau, there are more than 300,000,000 of us in the United States, 235 years after John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery, Lewis Morris, William Hooper, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark and 47 other founders mutually pledged to each other " our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." Celebrate it.

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Smart Fundraisers are Prepared for Uncertainty

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Have you asked them for a major gift, a multiple year pledge or even a planned gift? Perhaps the most important thing fundraisers can do to build resiliency into their fundraising programs is to foster an organization-wide culture of philanthropy where everyone understands and values their role in the fundraising process.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

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His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. Kimberly Mitchell. National University. Kristin Bertell, m.a., Chief Philanthropy Officer. City of Hope. Global Movement.

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Meet Christopher Himes, Classy’s New CEO With an Obsession for Verifiable Value

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Currently, about 20% of total giving on Classy’s platform is done by donors who pledge to give on a regular basis, but in the next couple of years, we plan to build a billion-dollar recurring business for our customers. . Q: How does Classy’s culture play a role in this customer-first mindset? .

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s not too late to pledge your support for our work. Revelations about government interception of these confidential stories has caused us to redouble our efforts to lower the barrier to the use of strong, secure crypto software like Martus. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?