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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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4 Examples Proving Nonprofits Should Offer Trust as a Service (TaaS)

Whole Whale

Here are four examples of major players who successfully sell trust as well as the details on how they make their money, what we can learn from them, and how selling trust drives revenue. LEED built a brand on trust by becoming the gold-standard rating for green buildings. Green Building Council, the group that LEED is a part of.

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Sustainability at Classy: Project Green and Our Corporate Commitments

Classy

Organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, the Trust for Public Land, the Arbor Day Foundation (to name a few) are on the frontlines of the sustainability and climate crisis. Leading by example with our customers and vendors. Corporate Green Policy: Achieved. Project Green Book Club: Achieved.

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Reframe, commit, and expand: How to meaningfully invest in Black leaders

Candid

Despite the clear and present need for a significant shift in how the field supports Black leaders, long-term commitments to funding Black leaders and communities are episodic at best. . Since 1987, Echoing Green has identified visionary leaders with bold ideas for transforming the world and invested in their ideas and leadership.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

It is only in recent years that we have seen an emerging shift in the philanthropic response from relief to resilience , from funding recovery efforts to engaging with the root causes of many natural disasters. For example, Hurricane Katrina, in August of 2005, presented as a once-in-a-generation disaster. That is no longer the case.

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Demographics via Candid: Building a movement to promote equity in the social sector

Candid

Watch the video clip At the recent Demographics via Candid launch event , Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green opened with a powerhouse keynote, followed by Ann Mei and Anna Koob, senior research lead at Candid, to further set the stage with details on the initiative and the demographic data Candid collects.

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5 Essential Free Online Courses for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alec Green , Chief Marketing Evangelist at NonprofitReady.org , an online hub of 400+ free online courses in topics ranging from fundraising to grant writing, leadership to program management. 4) Executive Director’s Guide to Fund Development. Too often, nonprofit professionals don’t receive the training they need.

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