Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. Direct help or assistance funds are mushrooming. It is easy to forget that the U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 4, 2010

Today’s blog post is provided by my dear friend and grant writer extraordinaire, Charlaine Hood. The biggest tip about writing a grant is to get over your fear: of failure, of not getting it right, of not including enough…what ever your mind is telling you to hold you back from ever trying to write that B-I-G grant.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Blog: Get Fully Funded. Blog: Philanthropy 411. Blog: New Voices of Philanthropy. Maddie Grant @maddiegrant from Washington, DC. Blog: Philanthropy 2173. Tags: Blogging Twitter. Blog: Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech. Sandy Rees: @SandyRees from East Tennessee. Neff: @daveiam from Austin, TX.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 2, 2010

Today’s blog post comes from my friend Betsy Baker, a grant-writing consultant and teacher. As a grant writing consultant for the past 8 years for a variety of nonprofit clients, I often run into the eager beaver convinced that I can find them the “magic” grant that will alleviate all their financial woes. Certainly.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Philanthropy is very much a two-sided coin. Foundations fund and coordinate mission-based work. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology. Find out more about what TAG offers on their members benefits page. Attend webinars.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Our funds have helped make Oregonians healthier and better educated, provided greater access to social services and the arts and culture, strengthened the nonprofit sector and improved the environment for all who live and visit here.”. This is the first time the foundation has asked for broad and direct public input in its grants process.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

So much attention in philanthropy has been devoted to nonprofit accountability, like the work of Charity Navigator ; it looks like the time has come for funders to be more open about how they’re doing grantmaking. Illustrate how institutional philanthropy is relevant to the critical issues of our time.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Aly Sterling Philanthropy – Capital Campaign Support. Getting Attention – Google Grants. Averill Fundraising Solutions – Annual Fund Strategy. Aly Sterling Philanthropy: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Capital Campaign Support. Explore Aly Sterling Philanthropy. RealHR Solutions – Human Resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. Communities on both platforms were clearly not part of the development and communications process, yet they were actively using the platform (for example, a grant from ideablob helped Epic Change implement a technology lab in a school in Tanzania ).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Interview with founder Charles Best.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

They also offer free advertising to nonprofits through their Google Grants Program. They also have an extensive list of free or low-cost services for nonprofits and universities through their “Technology-Driven Philanthropy&# campaigns. org to help raise funds for Haiti and to end malaria. 3) LinkedIn. 5) Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

Philanthropy is very much a two-sided coin. Foundations fund and coordinate mission-based work. Strangely, I find that one side of the philanthropy coin seems to get the lion’s share of attention — nonprofit technology. Find out more about what TAG offers on their members benefits page. Attend webinars.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Editor's note — This blog piece by Micah Sifry touches on the still inadequate state of funding for nonprofit technology. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy platform reveals the state of nonprofit technology funding in a critical area in some detail. democracy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

She is also on the board of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG). TAG is a membership organization composed of foundation techies who share information about their work in the philanthropy sector. Loretta actually found out about the new Microsoft donation eligibility rules for foundations through a TAG webinar in January.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The press release from Chase describes the two-step process: In Round One of the Chase Community Giving program, Facebook users will vote for non-profit organizations they think should receive a portion of Chase's philanthropy funds. Her post was summarized on the Chronicle of Philanthropy blog on that same day. generosity.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2010

Over at Beth Kanter's new blog, she's written up an interesting piece about Microsoft's corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropy, and how they leverage, strengthen, and empower social change agents with technology. And that's keeping it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Submitted by Lucy Bernholz, publisher of Philanthropy 2173. Everything I have seen in philanthropic innovation in the last two decades is predicated on this simple observation—there are two kinds of philanthropy products: financial products and information products. These are exciting developments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

If you do issue an RFP, you should not assume all proposals you get back will be similar in scope, so that all you have to do is compare price tags. Well-informed professionals who work in the nonprofit sector will also know better -- and care more -- about how to help you seek additional funding for your digital project. Bush, Ph.D.,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

Its mission is to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education and certification programs. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech Three of his current hot topics are: integrating donor databases with mobile, mastering online grant applications, and crowdfunding. NPMobile , ?NPOnlineGiving. Image: AFP.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. If the Wikipedia community can build Wikipedia with the smallest handful of grant dollars and paid staff, what could the AIDs community do if it embraced these tools? The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the queen of nonprofit philanthropy predictions. Case Foundation bloggers Kari Dunn Saratovsky , Sokunthea Sa Chhabra , and Megan Stohner cover philanthropy, social change, fundraising, and activism. Connie Reece advises nonprofits on social media strategies and is the visionary behind the Frozen Pea Fund. Maddie Grant.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Watch our Nonprofit Leader Panel from our The 2020 Digital Fundraising Summit that dives into the details of how Fiver and Catalogue For Philanthropy successfully planned and executed their #GivingTuesday campaigns: Trust me, learning best practices from real fundraisers who have run successful #GivingTuesday campaigns will pay off in the long run.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Fundraising Events. www.grassroots.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. . Tags: Arts & Technology evaluation scholar transparency.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

I like to give you those tools to let you work more efficiently because I have this belief that raising funds for causes you care about shouldn’t mean working 60 hours per week forever. Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. Less than 50% have a strategy or budget for their philanthropy. ” Right?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And your money story means you’re telling me that there’s a person but what it takes to fully fund your mission. . million organization, $900,000 of that is philanthropy, and you’re at the end of your calendar year and so far you’re at about $790,000. So it may be that you’re a $1.2 Have a great weekend.”

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The coalition includes the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University , GuideStar USA , the Foundation Center , the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics , the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Blackbaud. Reasons cited for the decline in foundation funding include lower grant amounts and non?renewed

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And I have my masters in philanthropy and fund development from St. And I’m on a mission to transform organizations through effective philanthropy. And that’s when everything falls apart because then you see people have set up their campaigns wrong, their funds wrong, their appeals incorrectly. Hey, grants.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That’s exactly the plan of the Atlantic Philanthropies. The Atlantic Philanthropies have made grants totaling more than $5 billion as of December 2009. Their online grant database gives people an interactive and innovative way to see the programs they fund. It’s a thought provoking concept.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

In the non-profit technology community, open standards of a different variety could help us all become more effective at what we urgently need to do: raise money, recruit and coordinate volunteers, promote events, create profiles on social networks, generate reports for grant-makers, and the list goes on. Tags: guest blogging.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Sometimes a system owner is like the person whose budget pays for that product, so director of development, VP of development, philanthropy manager, whatever title you have in your org. And if that person wins the lottery and runs off to some well-funded lifestyle in Aruba or something, they’re going to take everything with them.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Microsoft’s changes will probably be healthy for nonprofit technology as Bill Gates still chairs the board and his focus on philanthropy probably won’t dampen. Nicole Wallace is Senior Writer for The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Lucy Bernholz is deservedly among the biggest names in philanthropy and technology.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

Together, the Salesforce.org Impact Labs Community Fellows identified a few areas that need improvement: the first was ways to engage the community to ensure any solution would be sustainable, and the second was to improve the ability to get funding for climate organizations. CA: We created a tool called Grants Content Kit.

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