Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. The first grants are to be awarded later this year.

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Journal Local News Fund 89

Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Making searching for funders and grants fast and easy. Generating first drafts of grant proposals.

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Support Technology Proposal Grant 98

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The goal of these activities is to help form strong relationships to help facilitate honest and impactful decisions in the board room. . Community foundations awarded more grants than any other grantmaker type (49 percent of total awards) . Gifts by independent foundations accounted for at least $1. Cameras on.

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Virtual Foundation Practice Connecticut 49

Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2024

Donor needs a tax deduction this year, and like the flexibility of being able to recommend grants over a period of years (in which they may take the standard deduction). Let your community foundation know you exist and you’d love to work with them to further their DAF donors’ interests. of those gifts were given anonymously.

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Donor Fund Giving Sponsor 90

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Whether you’re running your own programs or funding grants to different nonprofits in your area, everything you do hinges upon fundraising. If you’re interested in pursuing matching gifts, the first step to take is to find matching gifts software that can facilitate that process for you. You do important work in your community.

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Raise Tools Foundation Online 52

sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Your leadership may set some parameters or fixed criteria around grantmaking goals, grant use, or eligibility.

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Participatory Model Leadership Application 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Remote and Hybrid Facilitation Workshops : During the past few years, interest soared in learning how to facilitate better virtual meetings has soared. I have continued to teach facilitation and meeting design workshops and coaching for online and hybrid meetings. It’s fuel for finding flow.

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Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 89

Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2021

170 million in challenge grants for low-income, undocumented students. September 30, 2021 The Schuler Education Foundation has awarded a first round of challenge grants totaling $170 million to five colleges in support of financial aid for low-income and/or undocumented students. MacArthur Foundation announces 2021 fellows.

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Ohio Massachusetts Indiana Minnesota 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. This refers to grants for projects that were ahead of their time or more experimental. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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Social Media Foundation Work Media 102

Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

A philanthropy insider once shared during a presentation that foundations develop guidelines so they know to whom to say “no.” There is much hand-wringing, but little in the way of actual financial support because most foundations do not see themselves as climate or justice funders. .

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

New recipes for capacity building for nonprofits and foundations – guest post by Annie Hernandez. I had the opportunity to facilitate a table conversation about capacity building in transition. The group discussed how we, as foundations, should take this ingredient list and apply it to ourselves. Succession planning.

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Foundation Build Seattle Conference 95

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change. However, grants to create publicly available data sets or data training for marginalized groups or under resourced organizations do not by themselves lead to equitable outcomes.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

Service design benefits the social sector If audiences are more engaged, they are participating in your organization’s offerings, applying for your grants or fellowships, or completing activities that will ultimately benefit them and their interest and passion in your organization’s cause in the long term. Improve the user experience.

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Design Service Social Chicago 74

sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These include: Employee matching gift programs Giving Tuesday corporate partnerships Annual giving campaigns In-kind donation drives Corporate volunteerism [and volunteer grants!] Plus, it can be as easy as leaving a collection box at a corporate office or store and facilitating pick-up after the drive has run its course.

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Impact Giving Strategy Gift 92

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” To look is an act of choice.”

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

And for those foundations who pronounce the goal to ease the burden for nonprofits and advance more equitable grantmaking practices, a scarcity framing emphasizes what you can’t do and stymies your efforts at the outset. A mindset of abundance creates abundance.

Learning 52

Learning Journal Practice Reflection 52

Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Certain corporate giving programs like volunteer grants encourage employees to volunteer with nonprofits. As a result, nonprofits not only earn money from the volunteer grants but also gain a new base of dedicated volunteers. Volunteer grants function very similarly to matching gifts. More volunteer sign-ups. New partnerships.

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Guide Giving Grant Gift 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Don’t be afraid to reach out to event sponsors, grant funders and major donors to see if they’d be willing to work with you on how unspent funds are allocated, such as event table sponsorships.

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Survey Virtual Nonprofit Sponsor 337

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Grantmakers of all sizes should check out Idealware's recently updated Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Systems. Available from Idealware's website as a free download, the updated guide compares 20 grants management systems, including popular offerings from Bromelkamp and MicroEdge. More Customizable Interfaces.

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Grant Comparison Software Management 44

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2020

It can be especially challenging to plan a golf event if you’ve never planned one before, and even more difficult if you’re not a golfer with a solid foundational knowledge of tournament play. 3) All the Nitty Gritty Golf Details. 5) Limited Sponsorship Opportunities that are Difficult to Sell. 7) Communication Challenges.

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Technology Sponsor Help Registration 276

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

On November 16, I had the pleasure of facilitating a webinar through the European Foundation Centre entitled, Foundations & Practice in Data Visualisation. While the live webinars are restricted to European foundations only, the recorded webinar is open for everyone!

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Foundation Practice Data Chart 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Group selfie ice breakers in our facilitation meeting! Icebreakers Can Be Fun! Also, fun results!

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Fun Training Train Facilitation 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Foundation and corporate giving are also projected to increase. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. to raise $1), business and/or foundation grants ($0.20 In fact, charitable giving is expected to increase 4.1%

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Trend Strategy Giving Fundraising 136

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). What is the role of facilitators, consultants and intermediaries in these networks? Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

More specifically, the flagship land grant and top research university sought out this Salesforce CRM expansion to enable greater collaboration and insight into UVM researcher engagements with internal stakeholders and external partners. We’ve achieved a model for success that we can now use as a foundation to build from.

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Vermont University Research Alabama 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building.

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Measure Impact Build Grant 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Note from Beth: Last year John Haydon reached out about a special project he was working on for the CTK Foundation that was providing some resources and financial support for nonprofits. As someone who has facilitated panel featuring “poetry slam case studies” in Iambic pentameter , how could I refuse?

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Alabama Profit Austin Grant 100

EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Ensuring a smooth user experience is especially critical for complex virtual campaigns like peer-to-peer fundraising, which relies heavily on your website to facilitate a number of different interactions between donors, their networks, and your organization. Integrated functionality is critical for nonprofit virtual engagement.

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Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The Salesforce.com Foundation offers 10 user licenses for free to nonprofits, which can make it an attractive option for organizations with limited budgets that are interested in adopting a software to streamline their fundraising. The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering.

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San Francisco License Nonprofit Database 64

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services.

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? https://storify.com/ResourceMedia/brainerd-foundation-s-21st-century-advocacy-design”>Storify. Why Use One?

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit. Access to nutritious food is foundational to a healthy, thriving community and society. Director, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation.

Hunger 93

Hunger Impact Puerto Rico Arkansas 93

Network for Good

MAY 17, 2021

The Salesforce.com Foundation offers 10 user licenses for free to nonprofits, which can make it an attractive option for organizations with limited budgets that are interested in adopting a software to streamline their fundraising. The place for prospecting and tracking donations, grants, memberships, and volunteering.

San Francisco 52

San Francisco License Nonprofit Database 52

AFP Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Glasspockets – Looking Inside Foundations: "The Foundation Center's Grantsfire RSS FeedThis feed displays real-time, raw data reported by foundations that use the Grantsfire 'hGrant' format. Grantsfire facilitates grant reporting for grantmakers and increases the timeliness and accessibility of this information for everyone.

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Foundation Facilitation RSS Feeds 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I keynoted at the Grant Manager’s Network Conference and was on a panel with Alex Samuel and Jeremiah Owyang at SXSW. Year in Review.

Instructional Design 50

Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Nonprofit Management.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85