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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

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Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C.,

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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The United Nations also issued an appeal for an additional $1 billion in aid, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development pledged €1.5 million and an additional 50 pledges worth $51.1 70% of grants and pledges were made with identifiable announcement dates, with 83.5% billion in emergency funds. billion ($1.6

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5 Creative Angles to Consider for Your Next Fundraising Campaign

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NARAL Pro-Choice Washington linked their supporters to self-care products and services from locally-, women-, and BIPOC-led self-care businesses in hopes of raising money toward their mission to advance reproductive freedom.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

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The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. Red Cross [link].

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

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His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. Spent 15 years with Microsoft prior to Charity Navigator, the last 10 of which as their public-sector chief technology officer .

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Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World

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In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." One year later, April 26-27, 2010, more than 260 people from over 60 countries gathered in Washington, DC for an unprecedented two-day Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by President Obama and the U.S.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

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Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.