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What we know about MacKenzie Scott’s 2020 grants

Candid

Over the course of 2020, MacKenzie Scott announced grants totaling almost $6 billion. At the time, we did not know anything about the grants themselves. Because Scott is not using a foundation, she is not required to release grant-specific data. These grants represent about $2.4 Grant size distribution.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Sort through online organizational data (Google analytics, email open rates) to see if there are insights, trends, and patterns that could be used to improve operations. Is the donor renewal rate low? Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Check your state laws to make sure you are in compliance.

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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds. Raising funds and winning grants is difficult and requires significant staff time and resources. by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???. Many receive a combination of both. self-balancing accounts?that?must

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Unions and their role in the social sector

Candid

law with the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In fact, hospital nurses now have a unionization rate three times that of the private sector as a whole. . Unions award grants. According to the latest Candid data, unions paid out $252 million in grants. $ What is a union? .

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4 Habits to Retain Donors

Roundtree

My one piece of advice to my daughter and son-in-law at their wedding was “never assume what has never been said.” 4: Don’t take them for granted. We often take relationships for granted until it is too late to recover them. When you improve your communications with donors, your retention rate will improve as well.

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This. Country. Is. Crazy.

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The US has the highest rate of gun violence of any industrialized western nation, and also, by far the most lenient gun regulations. a tenure-track job, and a grant to tell you that. . Some states where there is more public support for strict gun laws, have them (and have less gun violence as a result.) It seems (almost) sane.

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This. Country. Is. Crazy.

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The US has the highest rate of gun violence of any industrialized western nation, and also, by far the most lenient gun regulations. a tenure-track job, and a grant to tell you that. . Some states where there is more public support for strict gun laws, have them (and have less gun violence as a result.) It seems (almost) sane.

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