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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. The federal government was the source of the largest individual award for only 2 percent of organizations with small budgets. Mission Focus.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. During her talk at GEO, Fulton made an interesting observation about this era.

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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. In many cases, they find that long-term approaches must address the need to develop national capacities of philanthropic actors and their civil society partners and grantees.

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Revitalizing Global Partnerships to Further the Sustainable Development Goals

Connection Cafe

Uniting partners around a universal taxonomy for reporting on their progress would help partners work together more efficiently while simultaneously allowing for autonomy. And that there is also a need for universal metrics for analysis without imposing on how each country wants and needs to uniquely solve its specific challenges.

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Book Club Part 3: Museums Seeking Definition

Museum 2.0

The "taxonomy of archetypes" both allows museums to be judged fairly and appropriately, and allows institutions to grow in their unique abilities, rather than by cobbling together a bit of this and a bit of that, becoming wayward and watered-down. Object-centered museums have fabulous artifacts but are thought of as stuffy and hard to access.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. While the $109 billion in planned expenditures for free community college are set to come from state and federal governments, private philanthropy still has a crucial role.

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