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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

That data makes its way into various products and services to help: nonprofits find funding; researchers, advocates, and journalists derive insights into what is happening in the sector; and all types of funders to make funding decisions. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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Applying the Stages of Group Development to Grants

Grant Professionals Association

Have you encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal? This article will briefly describe Tuckmans framework and then apply these ideas to grant proposal development. The group will determine the scope of the proposal and the amount to request. Take heart.

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities. What changed?

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. Perhaps most concerning, Johnson (2008) found that reviewer bias affected as much as a quarter of funding decisions. Finally, please subscribe to my Fund the Change blog, below. 2016, Danthi et al.,

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

Tech Soup

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Expansion of the FCC's Lifeline Service.

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Ideas Wanted to Increase Participation in Elections

Tech Soup

The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. The 2015 Knight Foundation News Challenge is accepting applications online from February 25 to March 19, 2015. The winners will be announced in June of 2015. They won't fund overhead costs or administrative fees.

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Lever for Change: How ‘big bet philanthropy’ is transforming the sector 

Candid

De-risk investments Despite having made their billions by funding innovators with little more than a dream, many wealthy individuals tend to be risk-averse in their philanthropy. Funders can help build the capacity of small organizations to use the funds effectively. Similarly, when the W.K.