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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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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. Complete all three courses, pass a short knowledge check, and you will earn a certificate and badge to add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.

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

Candid

Since 1987, Echoing Green has identified visionary leaders with bold ideas for transforming the world and invested in their ideas and leadership. The money pledged is an example of historical cycles of reactionary funding traditionally followed by retrenchment and backlash. Black voices, Black spaces.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Bright Idea: Engage Donors With a Holiday Fundraiser

Qgiv

The LeaderShop is a youth development focused organization whose mission is to empower youth to become community-minded individuals through diverse programs that foster confidence, knowledge, and leadership. Supporters could purchase wooden snowflake ornaments in one of their signature colors- green, teal, orange, silver, purple, or yellow.

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

By deepening their commitments to sustainability, organizations across sectors have the opportunity to enact more sustainable business practices and set an example for peer organizations. BlocPower is creating green jobs by turning buildings into Teslas: making them smart and getting them off of fossil fuels.”.

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Following Through on Climate Commitments After COP26

Saleforce Nonprofit

During the COP26 meetings, the Malala Fund presented its Gender-Equal Green Learning Agenda , which recommends leaders use education as a powerful tool to address the climate crisis by adding climate issues to all school curriculums and vocational training. The 10 instructions are simple, as befits LEGO’s typical style, but incisive.