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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

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2001, Abdoul et al. Improved Training – providing explicit training in how to use rating scales and the consequences of scoring can improve rating scale interpretation and application, the NIH found. Further, NIH’s study showed that both experienced and new reviewers benefited from the training. 2006, Graves et al.,

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Introducing Candid Learning for Funders

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Today marks the launch of Candid Learning for Funders , your new destination for field guides, blogs, training, and tools designed to improve the practice of grantmaking. . How we got from GrantCraft to Candid Learning for Funders .

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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Thanks to the Reno Conference, the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide was issued in 1999 and the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention followed in 2001. You can check out programs like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Talk Away the Dark or attend a training by the American Association of Suicidology.

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Raise More Money This Year: Network for Good Can Help

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In 2001, tech giants AOL, Cisco, and Yahoo! Nowadays, we offer a suite of fundraising services (plus, lots of training that will make you a fundraising superstar) to small- and medium-sized nonprofit organizations. Allison Schwalm is Marketing Engagement Manager at Network for Good and a new guest blogger on the TechSoup.org blog.

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Corporate and Foundation Grantseeking: Free Webinar July 12

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In her 17 years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 20,000 professionals in Mexico, Canada, Egypt, and most of the 50 United States, in all aspects of development. Reach her at linda [at] cvfundraising [dot] com.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission. It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. I'd like to explain why we do this. What Is Creative Commons?

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December Cause Awareness: Universal Human Rights Month

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On December 9, 2001, President George W. The 4 Humanity Project was created to provide sustainable humanitarian relief around the world through “agricultural sustenance and vocational training.” It has been translated into over 500 languages and its proclamation day of December 10th has been established as Human Rights Day.