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Clinging to Clichés?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Lilly and 15,000 young people in our area are hungry, homeless and may never “be O.K.”. But the people who teach our children, work at our food pantries and run our shelters are asking you to help – starting Monday, September 16 – the first day of the Upper Valley’s ambitious “Are you O.K.?”

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Seven Steps to Overcoming the Fear of Calling Potential Funders

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In my fundraising work with smaller nonprofit organizations, the number one thing I see hindering our grantwriting projects is staff members’ fear of calling potential foundation funders to introduce the organization and to inquire about the possible fit of project(s) with the funder’s interests. The cultivation phase. Seek out a mentor.

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Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Compounding this, philanthropy has become more complicated: todays donors aspire to be strategic , leverage multiple vehicles (DAFs, LLCs, foundations, C4s, PACs, etc.), The majority of large established foundations were set up by and for men, with female spouses as an afterthought.

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How to Raise Funds for a New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Stage 2 is about building a solid foundation, and this does NOT include asking for money yet. Most foundations want you to have about 3 years of programming with data that demonstrates your approach is successful before they invest in you. In fact, most foundations wont fund your program year after year.

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How inflation affects foundation grantmaking decisions

Candid

With these challenges at play, how did inflation affect foundation giving decisions in 2022 and beyond? Last month, Candid published results from the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, an annual survey of large U.S. private and community foundations. Here’s what we found.

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MacArthur Offers $100 Million For One Good Program

The NonProfit Times

Some problems cannot be solved by grants of the size that foundations typically provide. In the inaugural round of 100&Change in 2017, Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee were awarded $100 million to educate young children displaced by conflict and persecution in the Syrian response region. times the original plan.

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NYC’s “Right to Shelter” Under Threat Amid Migrant Influx

NonProfit Quarterly

In a statement, the Legal Aid Society of New York and the New York Coalition for the Homeless—both parties to the consent decree that governs the Right to Shelter—issued a joint statement condemning the mayor’s action, calling it “shameful.” Housing is the answer to homelessness.” Housing is the answer to homelessness.”