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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

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Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

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Big philanthropy’s support of HBCUs declined from 2002 to 2019 An examination of trends in philanthropic giving to HBCUs underscores a history of underfunding. foundations steadily decreased their support of HBCUs, in terms of both percentage of total giving and grant dollars awarded. In fact, large U.S. HBCU staff insight 5.

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Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program ? Competitive Funding

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Eligibility State governments Only the Lead State Agency (or Agencies), as determined by the Governor of each Highlands State, may apply for funding under the Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program. Each Agency may submit multiple applications to this Competitive grant round. Description The Highlands Conservation Act (H.R.

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Finding Donors: Where Donor Research Can Make a Huge Difference

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He has worked in capital campaigns, major and planned giving (including charitable gift annuities) grant writing and donor research. Ryan loves working in small groups and has been in fundraising since his career started in 2002. But aren’t mid-level donors who we take for granted the most?

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. Though the "digital divide" has been declared to be cured from time-to-time, perhaps most famously in a 2002 U.S. How the Project Got Going.

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Black leadership and Black experiences in the social sector

Candid

foundation grants, our research documented a pattern of disinvestment in HBCUs. From 2002 to 2019, although foundations increased their total giving by 124%, funding to HBCUs declined by 30%. In May 2023, we released Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

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Owning your authentic scientific voice

Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

Finally, the use of these empty introductory clauses often involves anthropomorphizing, i.e., the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to non-human objects or entities, which should also be avoided in grant applications. This becomes even more apparent when you consider how naturally wordy we can be.