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Giving in America: A look at philanthropy’s history and a unique Candid connection

Candid

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D., the David M. Why is it important to this history?

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Fast Ways to Find Funding Sources

Get Fully Funded

A large percentage of grant opportunities in the United States are available to the public through one of two websites: grants.gov and foundationcenter.org. Grants.gov is a clearinghouse for information on grant opportunities for all grants offered by the United States government. Let’s try to speed up your search.

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Free Webinar December 8: The Capital Campaign

Tech Soup

In her sixteen years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals; and has trained more than 15,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the fifty United States, in all aspects of development.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I left my 9-5 in San Diego on June 4, set out on a month long road trip with my brother across the United States to New York. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet. On July 5 the real fun began. How was the project developed?

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To Strengthen Democracy in America, Think Tech

Tech Soup

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. To quote an overly used advertising tag line: know the gaps. Nonprofit Technology Funding for Democracy: The Problem.

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. We watched and cheered at the top of our lungs as Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States. Tags: Salesforce. Extremely interesting.

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On Frogloop's Radar

Care2

Panelists include Investigative reporters Peter Eisler of USA TODAY and Peter Panepento of The Chronicle of Philanthropy who will help you think critically about the information you may or may not make public and what that means for your organization. Where: United Methodist Building, 100 Maryland Ave, NE, Washington, D.C.