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Video teaser: Candid’s brand-new, free training for funders

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To give you a taste of the course, we’ve included a clip below on how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. For our next example, we’re going to learn how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. I’d like to use the Funding Map to identify other potential grantees, not already in our network.

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. 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 The disaster also displaced over 1.9 An estimated 2.2 An estimated 2.2

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

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This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research. Below, we outline some of the most important things to know about this data—especially for journalists, researchers, and others seeking to leverage real-time data to identify funding trends. . Call to action .

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

Mapping Trends in Philanthropy « NathanielJames.org – "Philanthropy is changing, and I want to contribute to creating the best of all possible worlds for the social sector. Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time.

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Great reads from around the web on April 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform. Change the internet?

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Why Monthly Giving is Easy

Top Nonprofits

Erica Waasdorp is President of A Direct Solution , located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, working with non-profit clients nationally and internationally on appeals and monthly giving. She created the Monthly Donor Road Map and several e-books to include the Top 7 Questions about Monthly Giving , the Monthly Donor Retention Play-Book , and more.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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