GrantNews

JULY 31, 2024

Because of this, municipalities all over the nation are offering funding support for this cause through agriculture grants. For example, some farms donate to food banks. “When we started our first urban farm in 2013, people thought we were crazy. Urban farming is helping us build a healthier future!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Finding corporate funding may be the trickiest of all funders to engage. Corporations and businesses sometimes create foundations or giving programs with funds generated from their profits. Michigan State University's list of service clubs and civic organizations that provide funding. Corporations and Grantmaking.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

According to 2013 Pew research : 91% of American adults have a cell phone, 55% have a smartphone, and 42% own a tablet computer. With a mobile-optimized website: Donors can access your fundraising page and make donations any time and from any device, easily, without a lot of awkward pinching and scrolling. Mobile by the Numbers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Since we're three months into the new year, you're welcome to revisit my new-and-improved list of 2013 forecasts for hot nonprofit technology trends as well. Four winners will receive $3,500 in cash prizes donated by by Cisco, and also free registrations to the upcoming NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis in April.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

funders, the donations from these 1,000 large foundations account for about 50-60% of the grants dollars Candid collects from U.S. This is because Candid’s data collection efforts have increased a great deal over the years (particularly around 2013-2015). private and community foundations. foundations in a given year (see chart below).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In 2013, in only its second year, 10,000 groups in 40 countries participated. Some of the ways she mentioned are: Cities and counties raising funds for several local charities. Staff and volunteers also thanked people who talked about giving blood, made a financial donation, or otherwise contributed to the Red Cross mission.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

In their latest survey of 106 big companies, the Chronicle of Philanthropy finds that cash donations grew by a modest 2.7 The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down. Donations of products are growing much faster than cash grants. Anyone in nonprofit fund development knows that getting corporate donations is pretty hard.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 25, 2016

While for-profit companies originally used crowdfunding platforms to source funds for new products and businesses, nonprofits are now using crowdfunding to gather resources and funds for their charitable goals. According to the USA Today , in 2013, crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 Crowdsourcing is another interesting example.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 is having some of my heroes speak at the event. REDF (also known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund) is a pioneer in fostering these types of charities.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

Or how about asking your family to purchase gift wrap as a way to raise funds around the holidays? But, with a 60 percent increase in the use of peer-to-peer fundraising between 2012 and 2013 , peer-to-peer is on the rise. Do you need to raise a lot of funds in a short period? Your impact goal, fundraising goal, and timeline.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2015

This might enable them to spend more time on their mission and less time worrying about funding. … Spare Key even hired a consulting 'director of cryptocurrency development' to build online infrastructure and facilitate donations by tech-savvy currency users — who it believes are a largely untapped market of donors."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This year #GivingTuesday is on December 3, 2013. Supporters commit to doing something good like donating money or services to a registered charity. The first Giving Tuesday last year provided donations to 2,600 nonprofits. GivingTuesday is an umbrella organization and not a funding organization. How To Get involved.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

“We went live with Shopify towards the end of April 2013, and in that time we’ve seen a 75% increase in sales from the previous year, mainly due to the professional look of the store and the ease of the process. ” What about your Shopify experience? Track sales and growth trends. You can manage your shop from an iOS device.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Facebook expanded its Donate Now buttons to all charities; eBay has a new Sell for Charity mobile app. The Facebook Donate Now Button. In late August, Facebook introduced a new "Donate Now" call-to-action button for both link ads and Facebook for Business Pages. " This is probably not the final word in this story.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

A 2013 study commissioned by Global Impact found that "corporations seek nonprofit partners that align with their own philanthropic and business goals in the following categories: mission (77 percent), geographic footprint (51 percent), and focus area (40 percent).

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Candid

JANUARY 14, 2022

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has announced a $100 million gift from the Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Foundation to establish a fund to seed promising projects in translational cancer medicine that might otherwise go unfunded. Read more.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The donated Dell smartphones normally use AT&T or T-Mobile pay-as-you-go or contract plans, but they can function without it because they are Wi-Fi-capable. TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian went out and conducted a video interview last spring using one of the donated Dell phones. No problem. It puts them on the path to opportunity."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

Funded by the Department of Homeland Security, this project is a 12-week program, which started June 8, for six start-ups ending with a demo day hosted by partner Wearable World in San Francisco. Symantec System Recovery 2013 R2. RollBack Rx Professional, 5 User Licenses (Donated). Drive Vaccine, 5 User Licenses (Donated).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Text MUTUALAID to 69866 to donate $10." " New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. Benefits of a Mobile Site. Yes, that's right.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

She carefully positions the edge of her fingertip to tap on an eyelash-sized link to the donation page, but hits the link next to it instead! As she finally clicks to the donation page, it fails to load and the program crashes. The new Guide by Cell program at TechSoup includes a donated annual subscription to a mobile-website service.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It's 2013. A simple "Donate now," "Give to a child in need," or "Support us" call to action placed within an engaging image on your home page will not only draw someone in, but will make them much more likely to take the action you want them to take. And don't fret. Remove Obstacles to Action.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

AFP’s president and CEO, Andrew Watt, is on the 2013 NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector. Do you have some under-appreciated funding technology resources that you like. I also like the way the AFP Technology Blog isn’t afraid to run technology failure stories like the U.K

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

The study also estimated the supply of PCs coming from the noncommercial refurbishment sector and also the potential for corporate donations of PCs. Our survey of large companies found a robust interest for donating PCs. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The readers of these reports may include government and private funding sources, internal managers, data entry staff, board members, auditors, and others, and each may have a different focus on your organization. Not who funds us - but what service or product do we provide or produce - what do we do ?). Corporate Donations.

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Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This brings their total donation since 2013 to $1 million! Chick-fil-A will stop donating to anti LGBTQ+ organizations.but is the Salvation Army really anti-LGBTQ+ ? The loss of funding to the charity will impact 11,000 kids. Includes examples from Walgreens, Walmart and others. Brain Food 1. Be careful out there, folks!

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 24, 2024

Large organizations such as hospitals and university systems are seldom scrutinized for these kinds of “operational” expenses, yet small organizations often accept the nonprofit starvation cycle , assuming that items needed for operations should be donated, mismatched, and held together by duct tape. The conversation continues to shift.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

"We went live with Shopify towards the end of April 2013, and in that time we’ve seen a 75 percent increase in sales from the previous year, mainly due to the professional look of the store and the ease of the process. Shopify has allowed us a way to process the orders more efficiently." How ACCO Uses Shopify.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

We've had a fair number of new product donations in the TechSoup catalog recently. We thought you might like to see what's new and also some product donations that are great, but not getting enough attention. AvePoint is a new donation program at TechSoup. Office 2013 Fundamentals Online Learning for End Users.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities. Google launched a similar service for their Chrome browser in 2013. It allows Americans to easily donate to any U.S.-based The app uses the Guidestar database to search for charities, and Network for Good to process donations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. They're urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. The next one will be in New Orleans in November 2013. With a catalog.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Foundation funding for workers’ rights i. Instead, they rely on the same kinds of funding streams as traditional community-based nonprofits: individual donations, volunteers, and support from institutional philanthropy. Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. million to $35.6

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

roathcardiff Living in #Cardiff and want to donate clothes to #charity ? — Tenovus (@tenovuscancer) January 29, 2013. — Dogs Trust (@DogsTrust) January 25, 2013. — Diabetes UK (@DiabetesUK) March 1, 2013. — PBS (@PBS) February 20, 2013. — alexandra bezdikian (@alebez) March 19, 2013.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MAY 15, 2024

Seems odd, since Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) says there were at least 3,200,000 migrant encounters nationwide in 2023, not counting the millions of gotta-ways, compared to just 314,000 in 2013. Going back into the Time Tunnel to say 2010, most funding for migrant services originated in DHHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 20, 2018

Since 2013, the National Park Foundation (NPF) has grown its corporate partnerships program [subscription required] from $5 million to $90 million. While most nonprofits are lucky if they raise five percent of funds from companies, NPF raises a whopping 18 percent from corporate partners. He's funding his work via Patreon. ??Get

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For example, you can include homepage calls to action (CTAs) that include signing up to volunteer, donating to your cause, registering for a healthcare appointment, or hosting a peer-to-peer fundraising event. Your websites forms, including your donation page, should be simple and convenient to fill out on mobile devices.

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