Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The article ’15 learnings we’re sharing from 15 years of working with grant-seekers and fund ers’ by the Strategic Grants team first appeared in the Winter 2024 edition of the F&P (Fundraising & Philanthropy) magazine. It is the quality and most definitely NOT the quantity of applications.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Every year Fast Company, a magazine and media enterprise with an "editorial focus on innovation in technology, ethonomics (ethical economics), leadership, and design" makes a list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. Got an innovative nonprofit you'd like to share? Let us know below.

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Planned Giving

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Viken Mikaelian is the CEO of PlannedGiving.com and Publisher of Giving Tomorrow Magazine. Interviewed by Karen Martin and Patrick O'Donnell, Editors, Giving Tomorrow Magazine. Undeterred by her connection to Yale, Gary asked her to consider leaving some of the proceeds from her TIAA CREF retirement fund to the college where he worked.

Indirect

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

Acknowledge and Thank Last, but not least, make sure to follow up with the proper acknowledgements and thank yous to those who worked hard to raise funds and to those who provided the dollars. The post Best Practices When Running a Product Fundraiser appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

Fundraising

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Grambling State University is a member-school of the University of Louisiana System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The magazine will be out on Feb. Robinson Museum and is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Background.

Education

Strategic Grants

AUGUST 1, 2023

Catch up on what’s happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SG’s busy research team. This transfer included CPA’s funding, staff and functions, including the ACF to Australia Council (soon to be named Creative Australia).

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Library Grants

JANUARY 4, 2024

Deadline: February 11, 2024 The Snapdragon Book Foundation was started in 2008 by a school librarian to provide funds to improve school libraries for disadvantaged children. For ideas of successfully funded grant projects, view the awarded grants on the website. Grants are given to U.S. Grants typically range from $2,500 to $10,000.

Grant

Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

REDF (also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) is a pioneer in fostering these types of charities. Other types of private sector social enterprises include corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts by major companies and socially responsible investment companies like Calvert SRI Funds and Domini SRI Funds.

Manufacturing

Candid

MARCH 13, 2024

First report: Funding to HBCUs For our first publication, ABFE and Candid decided to focus on a specific aspect of Black leadership—historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In May 2023, we released Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

Demographics

Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2017

The HelloVote chatbot app from Fight for the Future and the Fight for the Future Education Fund provides everything you need to vote wherever you live. In addition, Udemy has a paid online course that shows how you can build a Facebook Messenger chatbot in one hour, and Chatbots Magazine has various tutorials on the topic.

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 14, 2017

For starters, in 2015 the company increased its charitable giving by more than 30 percent – to $27 million – which included food and cash donations through its cause-related partnerships that raise funds for charities focusing on vexing issues like hunger, education, health, and wellness. meatpacker to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.”

Conference

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Jeff Brooks has a great article in Fundraising Success magazine called “When Goofus and Gallant Raise Funds&#. If you don’t read anything else, read Kivi’s post about her holiday donation experiment. There are lots of lessons to be learned here!

Fundraising

Library Grants

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Deadline: November 27, 2023 The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries provides funds to the neediest schools to extend, update, and diversify the book and print collections in their libraries with the goal of encouraging students to develop a love of reading and learning.

Applicant

Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.” and Thrasher Skateboard Magazine.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JUNE 14, 2024

It doesn’t matter if a child wants to read articles in a crafty magazine, a football annual, or a book on ponies. Grants for Projects to Promote Youth Literacy – Funding awarded for projects to promote youth literacy. Funding is marketing, research, art production, and training and career development.

Grant

Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

Even his pointers to traditional stories like the Fundraising Success Magazine ’s “ Fundraising Advice From Katya Andresen Over the Years ” are good insightful pieces. Do you have some under-appreciated funding technology resources that you like. We’d like to know about them. Image: AFP.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Use these tips to show appreciation for all of your donors, whether they contributed online donations , in-kind gifts, matching gift funds, major donations, or any other forms of support. A free publication, such as your quarterly magazine. Ask for donors’ feedback. . Send a gift. . Handwrite your thank you letters.

Retainer

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So, now that you know what you are going to do to bring in the money you need to fund your mission, it’s time to plan some time off. Spend a day at the hotel pool, flipping through magazines while everyone else does what they want to do. appeared first on Get Fully Funded. Start with the schedules of other family members.

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GrantNews

JULY 30, 2024

GrantWatch wants to acknowledge the role of zoos and zoo keepers as being important parts of their communities by providing a listing of grants and other funding for animal research and care. They also support global conservation efforts through funding and research. Which Zoos Are the Best to Visit?

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Selfish Giving

JULY 27, 2022

New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, etc.). Director, Corporate Partnerships, Partnership Management, United States Fund for UNICEF , Remote ($92k) 3. I got two questions from readers last week that I would like your help answering. Here's the first question. ????? "I Do you agree, Joe?

Media

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. Think newspapers and magazines, even the free, weekly publications. The post How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News appeared first on Get Fully Funded. Start by listing all the publications in your area.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 18, 2024

Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? As grant writers, we’re sometimes in a position of responding to requests from well-intentioned leadership or program staff to “look at this grant opportunity” or asking, “can you help us find funding for this project?” Full speed, nonstop, 30+ fundraising events a year.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

There are legal consequences to failing to be in compliance and there are also funding consequences. CIO Magazine: Still Running Windows Server 2003? Besides the obvious ethical concerns of failing to protect privileged information, HIPAA is federal law and your organization's professional responsibility — there is no excuse.

Ethics

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Check out this article from Smashing Magazine (they get credit for the image too) to learn more details about A/B testing. Try adding a quick blurb about how donations are spent or place your current funding priorities above the same donation button to see if it inspires more clicks! Perform a Simple A/B Test. Add the why.

Fundraising

Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

AUGUST 29, 2018

Many newspapers and magazines also use justified text because they rely on multiple columns of narrow text and justification helps keep the columns visually separate. Of course, newspapers and magazines also break up blocks of dense text with the regular insertion of graphics, subheadings, pull quotes, boxes, etc.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

This Wall Street Journal post discusses how John Arnold a former natural-gas trader at Enron and hedge fund founder is giving away his $4 billion fortune through a new “Moneyball” approach to giving. Data and Philanthropy. The New Science of Giving. Why Markets for Good may go wrong.

Ethics

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. Magazines featured red stickers so that people could add a red accent themselves where they wanted it. Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things.

Publishing

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. Magazines featured red stickers so that people could add a red accent themselves where they wanted it. Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things.

Publishing

DoJiggy

APRIL 12, 2024

Numerous creative avenues exist to raise funds and foster a sense of community and school spirit. This fun and Instagram-worthy event encourages community participation and is a great way to raise funds through entry fees and sponsorships. When fundraising for school initiatives like DECA, innovation and community engagement are key.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. "Like a body without a backbone, a sector without a strong infrastructure will crumble." That needs to change.

Nonprofit

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

company, NRG Energy and the nonprofit Solar Electric Light Fund have been working together to create a model solar village in Boucan-Carré, Haiti. She was also named one of Time Magazine’s Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 , so her information is not just on the website but also across mobile and social media.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Or it can be a professionally written story that reads like a feature in a magazine and includes professional quality video and photos. The post Your Guide to a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan appeared first on Get Fully Funded. Stories are the fuel that propel your marketing forward. And everything in between.

Metrics

Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

The HelloVote chatbot app from Fight for the Future and the Fight for the Future Education Fund provides everything you need to vote wherever you live. In addition, Udemy has a paid online course that shows how you can build a Facebook Messenger chatbot in one hour, and Chatbots Magazine has various tutorials on the topic.

Nonprofit

Big Fundraising Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Providing new opportunities for your students requires funds, and eco-conscious fundraisers are just as effective at bringing in revenue. Examples are newspapers, magazines, cardboard, paper bags, and office paper. Some other reasons for schools to host environmentally-friendly fundraisers include: Improved reputation.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Why Fundraising is Crucial for Schools Fundraising is the backbone of many schools’ efforts to fund extracurricular activities, educational programs, and essential resources not covered by standard budgets. From new playground equipment to art supplies and field trips, these initiatives depend heavily on the success of fundraising efforts.

Fundraising

Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

Say you want to create a monthly sustainer program to fund more kennel space for elderly rescue dogs. Obviously there’s an ongoing cost to that and you want to fund half of it through recurring giving and half through a corporate partnership with the local pet supply company. Let’s try it. Doesn’t everyone want a totebag?

Goals

Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

Say you want to create a monthly sustainer program to fund more kennel space for elderly rescue dogs. Obviously there’s an ongoing cost to that and you want to fund half of it through recurring giving and half through a corporate partnership with the local pet supply company. Let’s try it. Doesn’t everyone want a totebag?

Goals