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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Less than 1% of the applicants, 20 organizations were selected to receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. .

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So Now What? Finding Funding for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

The charts in these reports show the frequency of funding by source, such as private foundations, corporate giving programs, and local governments. Some Examples of Who Gets What Grants. The federal government was the source of the largest individual award for only 2 percent of organizations with small budgets. Annual Budget.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. Darin McKeever is a deputy director on the policy and government affairs team of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , where he leads the foundation’s charitable sector work.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

The SDG Philanthropy Platform aims to advance the SDGs by encouraging philanthropy, the UN, governments, the private sector and NGOs to collaborate. The program’s successes can be attributed to IDP’s ability to work with local government education frameworks and build strong partnerships with local stakeholders. Key takeaways.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance. Even in the U.S.,

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

billion in grants specifically for “community college education,” according to Candid data. Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. Their largest grant of $16.5 Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S.

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