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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000? In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. private and community foundations. i Even though the Foundation 1000 makes up only about 1% of U.S.

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Keynote by George McCully at NTC Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m a trustee of a small family foundation, not by family, thank god.??? "Anyone who donates to Harvard is an alumni or social climber." In the last five years, 1,000 private foundations have been created in MA. The new foundations are the ones to go after. For example, "I???m Most aren???t They don???t

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

Rob Acker, Salesforce Foundation’s COO says " because so much of a nonprofit's success hinges on maximizing the connections between people, whether it's knowing what companies a prospective board member works with, to knowing that a donor runs in circles with others who would seem likely to kick in.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

They simply don't attract big donations in the way that more elite institutions do. Many of these institutions have foundations, which are separate 501(c)(3) entities that exist to raise and/or manage private support for a single institution or system of institutions. Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S.

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