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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

Instead, it encourages foundations to start fresh by reassessing how they best live up to their responsibility and promises made to invest private resources for the public good. foundation funding to HBCUs and exploring these schools’ relationship with institutional philanthropy.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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How can nonprofits implement a strategic public policy agenda to achieve greater impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

This creates implications for an organization’s beneficiaries in regards to available resources and funding for programming. Build up a sustainable revenue stream to fund policy work by combining resources from private foundations, events and ticket sales, corporate partnerships, and grassroots support.

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How can nonprofits effectively recruit and retain high-performing employees?

ASU Lodestar Center

Rusty Morgen Stahl, in an article examining research on nonprofit hiring strategies, wrote for The Foundation Review, “It is reasonable to ask what has been done to tackle the talent challenge. In recent years, the support for executive searches and coaching has grown among foundations. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

The latest Charities Aid Foundation COVID-19 report found that at the end of 2020, 93 percent of charitable organizations reported being adversely affected by the pandemic. In Illinois , organizations reported feeling the pinch from changes in fundraising strategy and inconsistent federal and private relief.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

After 22 years in the fields of volunteer program management and nonprofit administration, I’m often asked by colleagues in the sector for advice on how they can improve the volunteer program in their organization. The results are, as you can imagine, disappointing and the volunteer program falls apart. Faculty Associate.