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The Benefits of Community-Centric Fundraising

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While these goals are important, they can sometimes overshadow the broader mission of community empowerment and feel disconnected from the people they’re trying to help. Incorporate the principles of community-centric fundraising into your organizational policies, fundraising strategies, and everyday practices.

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“Black & Proud”

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mental gymnastics) in which folks would try to no t say “Black” as in Black people. They would say “people of color,” “BIPOC,” or my favorite (insert side-eye emoji) “diverse” when it was very clear that they were referring to Black people. There is nothing shameful or harmful about simply saying “Black.”

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Forward-looking nonprofit organizations know that leveraging data is key to determining where a community’s unmet needs are, securing resources to address those needs, and advocating for more effective policies. In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership. Ford Foundation press release 06/30/2021.

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Earth Day ‘22: Salesforce.org Customers Tackle Climate Challenges by Land, Air & Sea

Saleforce Nonprofit

We need new policies, new technology, new strategies, and local support in order to build, implement, and sustain the kinds of solutions that will help us make progress on our goals. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide. Plant for the Planet.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. Participatory evaluation is based on the premise that everyone has knowledge; everyone has biases; and the people closest to an issue know the most about it.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With a growing interest in the “AI4Good” field, Google is sharing this information to help strengthen the ecosystem of people and organizations hoping to solve some our most pressing social challenges with AI. . The key findings in the report are listed below. Machine learning is not always the right answer.

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