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Melinda French Gates Reflects on Legacy of Gates Foundation

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The true measure of success, she says, will come years after the grant makers shuts down, in how lives will have changed as a result of its work. The true measure of success, she says, will come years after the grant makers shuts down, in how lives will have changed as a result of its work.

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Trends in education funding’s share of philanthropic giving 

Candid

Between 2015 and 2022, education nonprofits consistently received the largest percentage of total grant dollars from institutional grantmakersan average of 27%followed by health (21%) and public benefit organizations (19%). Among individual donors, the share of dollars directed to education also declined, from 20% to 19%.

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What gives in Nebraska? The Buffett effect and a culture of giving 

Candid

That’s one of the findings from Dollars and Change: A Look at Individual and Institutional Giving Across the United States From 2015 to 2022 , a report released in September by Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good. These grantmakers account for about 17% of all grant dollars awarded to Nebraska-based nonprofits.

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Sprouts Foundation to Award $3M in Grants to Nonprofits Focused on Health and Wellness

NonProfit PRO

hide(); }});--> The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation announced the launch of its 2025 Grants Program, with $3 million in funding available to support local organizations that advance nutrition education, nutrition access and wellness for children and adults in the communities where Sprouts operates. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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Applying the Stages of Group Development to Grants

Grant Professionals Association

Have you encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal? This article will briefly describe Tuckmans framework and then apply these ideas to grant proposal development. Usually, a grant professional will hustle off to the next project. Take heart. This is normal.

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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%). The rate at which foundations give general operating support, multiyear grants, and capacity-building grants has declined steadily since 2015. It’s not all great news.

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities. In FY ‘23, $3.8