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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

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Grant writing tip: While the task of writing a proposal often falls on the shoulders of a project manager or grant writer, anyone—even an outside consultant—with the proper skills could write the proposal. These are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on “awesome projects.” .

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My project is associated with the ‘Go Read’ Android application. The project I’m working on consists of several major objectives: Implement Periodical Downloading Go Read currently has download capability only for books.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

There are grants out there for programs, general operations, projects, and capital – but not all funders award all of these. Some focus only on program and project support, while others may offer general operating support (these are not as common, though). Here are 3 ways that your program/project can match a funder’s interests.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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I had an exceptionally knowledgeable mentor who ran an office engaged in multiple types of fundraising activities: endowment (major gifts), special project fundraising (grant writing), annual fund (with a corporate slant), membership, database administration, special events, and volunteer management. My mind was a sponge.

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8 Organizations to Support this Black History Month

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Black Teacher Project. Black Teach Project is the definition of “small but mighty.” In response, the SPLC's Teaching Tolerance Project assembled an advisory board and worked with prominent scholars to to develop a framework and offer a set of recommendations for teaching about American slavery. Advancement Project.

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TechSoup Hosts Saturday Hackathon 4 Good

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The day started with demonstrations by two projects that have moved past the initial idea phase. The first project, Good Gym , makes exercise doubly productive by using it to help the community. Users can get in shape by completing group or individual projects. In all, over 10 new technology applications were proposed.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to Engage Major Donor Prospects Who Blow Hot, then Cold

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Who were your heroes and mentors growing up? . However, while the proposal aligned with the nonprofit’s mission, it was not central to it. How would you approach next steps if we want to bring this project to fruition? If you had to pick one thing that our organization should never stop doing, what would it be? .

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