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Focus on Generosity and Building Relationships on Giving Tuesday

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Beginning in 2012, Giving Tuesday has taken place the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Given what’s likely in the next administration, nonprofits will need to work harder to combat any government funding cuts and policy changes. It’s likely both you and your donors are upset with the outcome. Your donors deserve better.

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Personal Democracy Forum 2012 Discount for TechSoup Community

Tech Soup

The Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) 2012 conference is June 11-12 in New York. The PDF conference is organized by Personal Democracy Media (formerly Personal Democracy Forum), an organization dedicated to exploring technology’s impact on government, politics, and society. And lucky you! Getting the Discount.

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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). 2006, Graves et al., 2001, Abdoul et al. Stay tuned.

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When Fonts Attack, It's Time to Patch

Tech Soup

In early July, it was revealed that adversaries gained access to an archaic — but crucial — part of our government personnel system , where detailed background information required to obtain security clearances in most U.S. government agencies was held. It affects the following versions of Windows: Windows Vista.

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. The Nicaraguan government has closed down 1,500 nonprofits, including religious organizations, human rights groups and even the American Chamber of Commerce, Rutzen added.

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Nominate a Nonprofit for a Blackbaud Impact Award

Tech Soup

on October 1, 2012. The deadline for nominations is August 31, 2012. If so, nominate a nonprofit for an Impact Award! Winners will be announced at the Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits in Washington D.C. Best Integrated/Multi-Channel Campaign. Best Online Campaign. Best Peer-to-Peer/Special Events. Best CRM Visionary.

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

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. government agencies ii. Before this time, government grants collection had been limited to a few agencies like the National Science Foundation and Department of Education.

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