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Assets, Giving At Family Foundations Growing

The NonProfit Times

They are also spending beyond the required minimum of 5% of their corpus (71%) compared to 2020 (56%) and 2015 (55%). More donors are employing principle-based practices that incorporate accountability, equity, learning, and relationships into their governance, operations, and grantmaking. It’s not all great news.

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GivingTuesday Partnerships: 3 Opportunities To Enhance Your Campaign

CauseVox

When you combine the efforts of nonprofit organizations, donors, governments, businesses and other institutions, things really begin to get done. This post was originally published in November 2015 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness in October 2024.

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Bill Gates Calls for More Aid to Go to Africa and Debt Relief for Burdened Countries

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press NEW YORK Justin Tallis/AP In speaking about the Gates Foundation’s Goalkeeper’s report, published Tuesday, Bill Gates says the richest governments should increase their support for African countries. The report shines a light on countries’ promises to achieve development goals they set in 2015.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Prices on all this gear will continue to drop in 2015, and the effect on nonprofit offices will be an acceleration of the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend. Chris predicts usability improvements in 2015.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). 2016, Danthi et al., 2014, Berg, 2013). Stay tuned.

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Shifts in giving across generations: What motivates donors to give?

Candid

Donor sentiment toward nonprofits is positive The good news is that the survey found 63% of donors said charities were doing a good or excellent job and saw nonprofits as doing a better job at delivering important services than government, especially among younger generations.

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Applying the Stages of Group Development to Grants

Grant Professionals Association

million in foundation, corporate, federal, federated, and local government funding since 2015. Author Bio : Shauna OToole, MA, CFRE, GPC is a Grants Associate with Assel Grant Services with a background as a practicing development director. Shauna has secured $2.5 Louis Regional Chapter president (2022-2024).

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