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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

Non Profit Quarterly

Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed, according to a press release by the MacArthur Foundation. In an effort to turn this trend around, the MacArthur Foundation unveiled in September 2023 the Press Forward initiative, a coalition of 22 founding donors set on “strengthening communities and democracy by supporting local news.”

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Paul-based Bush Foundation has announced the NDN Collective and Nexus Community Partners as the steward organizations of two community trust funds seeded with $100 million. Giving Pledge announces 2021 signatories. The Open Society Foundations has awarded grants totaling $42.5 December 15, 2021. OSF awards $42.5 Read more.

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What counts as racial equity funding?  

Candid

We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . contacted us with two primary concerns about the way the data was presented: the distinction between racial equity and racial justice funding, and the mixing of grants and pledges. underlying systems and structures that?generate

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

Glasspockets.org is a website sponsored by the Foundation Center that is focused on transparency among funders. foundations still don’t have websites, quite possibly intentionally. The objectives of the Glasspockets project are actually pretty simple: Inspire private foundations to greater openness in their communications.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Gates Foundation awards $35 million PRI for anti-viral therapeutics. September 16, 2021 UK-based Exscientia , an AI-driven pharmatech company, has announced a $35 million program-related investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop anti-viral therapeutics against coronavirus and other viruses with pandemic potential.

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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

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Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. California State Parks Foundation. How California State Parks Foundation Takes Action on Earth Day. Connect with California State Park Foundation: . National Forest Foundation. A $10 billion Great American Outdoors Act passed in July 2020.

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