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Stroke Awareness – Act F.A.S.T.

GrantNews

billion between 2018 and 2019. Every 3 minutes and 14 seconds, someone dies of stroke. Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. Stroke-related costs in the United S t ates came to nearly $56.5 cdc.gov, “ Stroke Facts “) Signs and Symptoms of a Stroke During a stroke, every minute counts!

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

Blackbaud

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities. All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary.

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How to Recognize a Suspicious Email

Tech Soup

It's estimated that the average business user will receive 96 emails per day by 2019 (source: Radicati ). Read on for facts and tips on email security from the National Cyber Security Alliance. Across the world, 269 billion emails are sent every day. According to the National Cyber Security Alliance, 85 percent of U.S.

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Are we making progress? Identifying organizational outcomes 

Candid

When GuideStar and Foundation Center merged to become Candid in 2019, we created a 2030 vision as our guiding light. Why outcomes matter As a nonprofit that serves other nonprofits (rather than providing direct services), the impact we make is typically indirect. This can make it challenging to define success.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The Grants Transparency Act complements the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act passed in 2019. The bill requires that if a weighted scoring system, whether qualitative or quantitative, is used to evaluate applications, this system must be described in the RFP. Again, some agencies already do so.