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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

Their hopes and struggles and agonies Get us grants and consulting fees. There’s a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain. Let us celebrate the poor. Their ills, their sins, their faulty diction Flavor our songs and spice our fiction. Celebrate thugs and clowns, Give their ignorance all renown.

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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

Blackbaud

A reserve can provide the flexibility necessary to pay for items that arent covered by restricted grants. This post was originally published October 2016 and updated January 2025. In general, the less control you have over your organizations spending, the higher the risk and the higher your reserves might need to be.

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Is There Racial Bias in Awarding Federal Grants?

ProposalPRO

As with anything in the government grants space, it is complicated. There is evidence that government grants are not distributed equitably. 2016 , Ginther et al., 2011 ), that Black scientists are only half as likely as White scientists to win NIH R01 research grants, one of the agency’s most common research project grants.

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It’s time to invest in volunteer engagement  

Candid

According to Points of Lights report, of the $1 trillion in grant dollars awarded by foundations from 2016 to 2025, only 0.19% was allocated to volunteer engagement. Among the top 10 largest (by total giving) institutional foundations, just 0.07% of their grant portfolios were allocated to support volunteer engagement.

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Inclusion of senior investigators on junior investigator grant proposals

Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

Young/junior/early career investigators attending one of our Write Winning Grant Proposals seminars frequently ask whether teaming up with senior/established investigators on a grant application will increase their chances of meriting an independent grant award. PhD, PharmD, DSci, EdD, etc.)

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

Rutzen also requested that the Global Magnitsky Act of 2016, which authorizes the U.S. A free country is never granted even by the greatest allies,” she said. “It Repressive regimes around the world have realized they can use legislation to give oppressing nonprofits and other NGOs the veneer of legality, the witnesses attested.

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Concentration of Nonprofit Giving Disenfranchises Civilians

The NonProfit Times

Between 2000 and 2016 some 20 million households moved away from giving roles. Isolation has risen as online interactions have become more ubiquitous, a trend that was accelerated by the sheltering-in-place policies of the coronavirus. Wales backed her thesis with several disturbing pieces of data.