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Building Online Portals for Full-Text Searches of Historical Archives

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There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public.

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Celebrate National Volunteer Week at your association to show you care!

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National Volunteer Week is celebrated annually in the United State s , Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand , to recognize the outstanding work of volunteers. Provide a one-sheet document on the impact of your members’ volunteer work and thank each volunteer. Offer volunteer perks.

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Time To Celebrate: Nov. 15th Is National Philanthropy Day

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While it is celebrated in the United States, it’s also observed in various ways in many other countries. See hashtag #NationalPhilanthropyDay National Philanthropy Day in the United States dates back to the 1980s when it was conceived by Douglas Freeman, a professional fundraiser.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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Here are two of the features that CDP started to incorporate into grantmaking: Tax Status Verify For the United States and Canada-based organizations, the tax status verify tool updates the legal status of each organization. This process reduces the need for an organization to provide further documentation on their tax status.

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Black leadership and Black experiences in the social sector

Candid

These higher education institutions have played a vital role in educating Black people, developing Black leaders, and addressing inequality in the United States. foundation grants, our research documented a pattern of disinvestment in HBCUs. This was the first comprehensive analysis of private philanthropy to HBCUs.

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Good CEO, Bad Call—How to Recover

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Documenting the steps that you will take in a leadership challenge is a good way to begin training yourself to act with intention in a situation filled with extreme emotional distractions. The tricky part, and we know it’s tricky because so many people get it wrong, is that getting it right requires character.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then.

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