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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. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. Some organizations already accepting cryptocurrency donations include the United Way, Charity Navigator, the Lupus Foundation of America , the Human Rights Foundation , Red Cross, UNICEF, and Mercy for Animals. Let’s start with the basics.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Foundation funding for workers’ rights i. Instead, they rely on the same kinds of funding streams as traditional community-based nonprofits: individual donations, volunteers, and support from institutional philanthropy. Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. million to $35.6

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Organic Social Media to Increase Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Working with NGOs, thought leaders, and policymakers in DC for the last decade, she specializes in getting people to care about complex issues that might otherwise get ignored. Share financial reports, impact assessments, and breakdowns of where the funds go. Fox Foundation, and The Trevor Project.

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Nonprofit Advocacy Can Be a Force Multiplier for Social Change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Our longest-term donor, the Skoll Foundation , went so far as to introduce me to a DC-based advocacy firm. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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Giving in America: A look at philanthropy’s history and a unique Candid connection

Candid

Specifically, they saw the exhibition Giving in America , which includes one of the first copies of Foundation Directory. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. ,” examines Americans’ debates over public and philanthropic funding for education. We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D.,

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The R in M+R

M+R

Donald went on to lead New York’s PIRG (NYPIRG) into a powerhouse of an advocacy organization and organized one of the largest protests of the 1970s with 100,000 people on the mall in DC. He led the effort to restore public broadcasting funding from Newt Gingrich. When we say that M+R has its roots in organizing, we mean it.

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