Social-justice Funding Grows
| Posted in Fundraising on Jul 29, 2010 |
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Grants to support social justice grew to 14.7 percent of giving by U.S. foundations in 2008, up from a range of 11 percent to 12 percent for most of the past decade, a new report says.
A big factor in the increase was the move by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation into the role of the top social-justice funder in the U.S., says Key Facts on Social Justice Grantmaking, a report by the Foundation Center.
In 2008, the report says, the ...
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Bank Of America Places Exceptional Students With Nonprofit Groups
| Posted in Philanthropy on Jul 27, 2010 |
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Bank of America is giving back to nonprofits – by helping others give back to nonprofits.
Bank of America has partnered with 90 nonprofit organizations to place 230 motivated students into internships that will allow them to gain valuable work experience while giving back to their communities. With the national teen unemployment rate hovering around 26 percent and expected to worsen, the initiative – known as the Student Leaders ...
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Carnegie Corporation Gives $10 Million For Education Reform
| Posted in Government on Jul 25, 2010 |
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The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced $10 million in grants to be used in the development and implementation of new elementary, secondary and post-secondary school designs and systems.
The grants are part of the corporation’s larger effort to support designs that address the weaknesses in the U.S. education system – such as poorly designed curricula, isolation from external resources, understaffed schools, incoherent management ...
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Fundraising Grows Online, Overall
| Posted in Fundraising on Jul 23, 2010 |
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Online revenue grew 23 percent and overall fundraising grew 6.2 percent for the three months ended in May, compared to the same period a year ago, two new indices say.
The inaugural Blackbaud Index of Online Giving, which will be published monthly, also found a 13.1 percent increase in online revenue over three months for nonprofits that raised less than $1 million over the previous year, a 21.3 increase for those that raised $1 million to ...
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Nonprofits Running On Empty
| Posted in Not For Profit on Jul 19, 2010 |
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Nonprofits and their employees are "stretched to the breaking point" by the troubled economy, and although adapting to the strain and digging deep to address rising demand for services, they need some relief to sustain their work, a new report says.
Nearly 40 percent of nonprofits lack adequate staff to deliver their programs and services, and nearly a third have seen net reductions in their workforces from October 2009 to March ...
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Mobile Giving Attracts, Frustrates Nonprofits
| Posted in Technology on Jul 13, 2010 |
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Nonprofits increasingly are thinking about mobile fundraising and likely to try it soon but they also are stymied by not knowing how to market or promote their use of the new technology, a new survey says.
Thirty-six percent of nonprofits responding to a survey Kaptivate conducted in February use mobile media or plan to in the next 12 months, and over half expect over the next 24 months to be using mobile technology for donor engagement and ...
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Social-media Marketing Growing
| Posted in Marketing on Jul 13, 2010 |
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Marketers at small businesses will pay more attention to social media as they gain popularity among consumers, a new survey says.
A survey by email-marketing software firm AWeber of over 2,500 small businesses found nearly 70 percent are using some type of social-media tactics and 77 percent indicate integrating email marketing and social media is either "very important" or "moderately important."
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Five Tips For Writing Effective Web Content
| Posted in Marketing on Jul 13, 2010 |
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How important is the Internet? How important is the Internet to you as a nonprofit?
Currently, three-quarters of Internet users worldwide visit a social network or blog while online, a 24 percent increase year-over-year according to a recent study by Nielsen.
Then there's the staggering estimate that there are over 2,000,000 blogs on the Internet. If you stop to think about this for a second (or maybe a few) you'll realize that ...
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For-profit Lessons For Nonprofits
| Posted in Management on Jul 13, 2010 |
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Five years ago, my colleagues, Jeff Sachs and Ray Chambers and I had a dream - to launch an organization that would cut extreme poverty in half in just 10 years.
We realized at the time that implementing this idea sounded far-fetched. But we truly believed that with the necessary capital, the proper infrastructure, and the will to succeed, it was possible.
As a veteran private-equity investor that bought and sold businesses for a living, ...
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Wealthiest Individuals’ Wealth Rebounds
| Posted in Philanthropy on Jul 6, 2010 |
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The world's wealthiest individuals in 2009 recovered much of the wealth they lost in 2008, and their charitable giving grew in all regions except North America, a new report says.
But with philanthropy on the rise following a year in which it plunged, the financial crisis "has clearly reduced the outright level of donations," says the 14th annual World Wealth Report, released by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and by ...
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Finding Grants To Fund Marketing
| Posted in Marketing on Jul 2, 2010 |
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How many times have you had this thought or actually said the following to your staff or board? "We would definitely be marketing ourselves more, if only we had the funding to support those efforts."
It's a common statement when thinking and talking about marketing.
Nonprofits are funded to provide services, raise awareness on issues and be a resource for their communities -- not necessarily to market themselves.
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Nonprofit Messaging: Keys To Reaching Your Audience
| Posted in Marketing on Jul 2, 2010 |
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As the demand for a donor's dollar increases, the importance of distinguishing your organization from others has become increasingly relevant.
For many organizations, prospects and donors do not have personal knowledge of a nonprofit's day-to-day activities, so they depend upon communications when making decisions about where to contribute.
Fundraising solicitations often involve a full spectrum of messages. This is not necessarily ...
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