Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Impact investors fund organizations that sell products that lead to positive social outcomes. However, there’s an interesting twist: those foundations with endowments (largely private foundations) are now using their capital, which is usually invested in more traditional financial products, to fund impact investments.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Plus, some organizations may be inactive temporarily, but eventually find funding and are able to start back up again. Areas with few nonprofits deal much less with mission creep and competition for funding. In an IRS study of “nonfilers,” around 16 percent of nonprofits that filed their 990s from 2000 to 2005 did not re-file in 2005.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 18, 2011

Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. Today, I’m launching a series on Mapping Trends in Philanthropy, to share what I am learning and invite a conversation with leaders in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Sector – sourcing a taxonomy (for both the funder and the nonprofit seeking funding communities) allows the sector to speak the same language – This taxonomy will be deployed as a part of the outcomes solution. It’s a win-win.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. Even in the U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

Karolina opened the session with an enlightening overview of the SDG Philanthropy Platform , delving into the dollars grantmakers fund towards the SDGs. This helped us develop our Outcomes taxonomy , that will ultimately address the lack of data on philanthropic activities that Karolina noted. The Key to Cross-Sector Partnerships.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2016

In practice, impact investing means partnering with and funding nonprofit organizations to effect social change in areas that are aligned with the strategic priorities and overall mission and vision of the organization.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is why at Blackbaud, we’re building the Sustainable Development Goals taxonomy into all of our cloud software products, so nonprofits, foundations and corporations can not only track and dialogue around funding and but stay connected to the larger global conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

The theme of NTC Boston2005 was "Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers." " He shared a visual diagram of his taxonomy of MA nonprofits that did with analyzing Form 990 information and google. (Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. Why would they want to do that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Other pieces of that transformation include the work by grantmakers to reduce the role of programmatic silos of funding and the growing emphasis on collaboration, both between grantmakers and between grantees. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

They generate revenue through tuition, fees, and federal funds; and like other nonprofits, they also rely on charitable gifts to operate. . In this blog, we examine who the players are in this space and look at what this funding picture means in relation to President Biden’s free community college proposal. . has awarded over $3.5

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