International Aid Groups Scramble for Funding
With political turmoil and the global financial crisis putting a damper on the generosity of governments and individual donors, aid agencies working to address humanitarian emergencies around the world are beginning to run short of funds. A recent spike in humanitarian emergencies in developing countries comes at a time when the balance sheets of governments and individuals in rich countries have been battered by volatile credit and equity markets. [Read more]
Source: “Aid Agencies Struggle as Soaring Global Needs Outpace Funding.” Reuters AlertNet
PepsiCo Foundation, UN World Food Program Announce Partnership
The PepsiCo Foundation and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) have announced a strategic partnership designed to enhance WFP's ability to deliver food and relief to the most vulnerable communities around the world.
The foundation has committed $2.2 million for a program that convenes global logistics experts from PepsiCo to help strengthen WFP's response to growing hunger needs brought on by high food prices and the financial crisis, while improving the organization's operating efficiency and response time in crisis situations. To improve food delivery for the nearly 1 billion people worldwide going hungry, WFP and PepsiCo logistics experts, including retirees who are part of the PepsiCo Foundation Service Corps, will share best practices, collaboration tools, performance dashboards, and training frameworks. [Read more] Source: “PepsiCo Foundation and United Nations World Food Program Announce Partnership to Enhance Humanitarian Relief Delivery Around the World.” PepsiCo Press Release
Philanthropist Promises to Give Unlimited Amount in Fund-Raising Challenge
Robert W. Wilson, a retired investor and philanthropist who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental charities, has created what appears to be an unprecedented fund-raising challenge.
To help a relatively small environmental charity Mr. Wilson, 82, says he will match, dollar-for-dollar, the largest gift the group can raise by the end of its fiscal year on September 30–with no upper limit on the amount he will give to fulfill his part of the bargain. [Read more]
(Read The Chronicle of Philanthropy's profile of Mr. Wilson’s unusual approach to philanthropy.)
The Gates Foundation Brand Is So Good, Money Just Flows In
The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently noted that the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation garnered more than $10 million in unsolicited contributions last year.
The Chronicle explained that the Gates Foundation "reluctantly" accepts donations and imposes many restrictions:
"On its Web site, the foundation lays out stringent guidelines for gifts it reluctantly accepts. It accepts only donations from individuals and gifts that are unrestricted in their use; it does not allow fund-raising events to be held in its name; and it does not take contributions of real estate, intellectual property, or securities. The guidelines also emphasize that the foundation never asks for money...."
If this isn't proof of what branding will get you, I'm not sure what is. The Gates Foundation doesn't do anything that nonprofits are told to do: it doesn't market itself, doesn't solicit, never sends out direct mail. Furthermore, it doesn't accept restricted gifts, stock or real estate. And it still received more than $10 million in unsolicited donations last year. [Read more]
Source: About.com - Nonprofit Charitable Orgs: Joanne's Nonprofit Blog
G8's promise to Africa is likely to be broken, warns campaign group
– Pledge to double aid by 2010 far behind schedule
– Italy has paid out only 3% of its Gleneagles target
The G8 group of leading industrial nations looks set to break its promise to eradicate poverty in Africa because of a poor performance by France and especially Italy, aid campaigners have warned.
The One campaign group, which fights poverty and disease in Africa, said that the G8 had only delivered one third of the additional assistance it had promised to Africa by the end of next year.
In its annual report, which tracks yearly progress against the G8's 2005 Gleneagles commitment to double aid to Africa by the end of 2010, One projects that by December this year the G8 will have delivered only about half of that promise. Italy and France are responsible for 80% of the shortfall. "This leaves just one year, 2010, for the G8 to make up the rest," according to the report. [Read more]
Source: Guardian Online
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McKnight Foundation makes a grant to MinnPost
The McKnight Foundation has awarded MinnPost a grant of $60,000 a year for two years for general operating support.
McKnight, one of the largest foundations in the country, joins the Knight Foundation, based in Miami, and the Blandin, Bremer and Minneapolis Foundation's in Minnesota as major grantmakers to MinnPost.
The president of the McKnight Foundation, Kate Wolford, explained their support for MinnPost: "The McKnight Foundation’s programs are meant to respond to community needs, help our partners collaborate, and inform decision making for a better quality of life. In each strategy, MinnPost is a kindred spirit and a powerful ally. Especially at this time of great challenges, smart and trustworthy daily news is crucial to maintaining a healthy society. We are proud to support MinnPost’s innovative approach to high-quality nonprofit, non-partisan journalism."
The grant was one of 112 that McKnight announced today for the second quarter of 2009, totaling more than $9.7 million. [Read more]
Source: MinnPost.com
Request for Proposal: National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Introduces New Transnational Cultural Remittances Grant Program
With support from the Ford Foundation, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture has announced the introduction of a new competitive grant program.
The Transnational Cultural Remittances program is designed to increase understanding, support, and recognition of the cultural impact of continued migration of and connection between individuals in Mexico, Central America, and the United States. The program is available to individuals, collectives, and community-based organizations that are engaged in the practical exchange of culture through transnational community connections developed and maintained by culturally and economically linked communities.
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Source: National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
Request for Proposal: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Seeks Applications for Coral Reef Management Fellows
I.M. Systems Group , a contractor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , is seeking individuals to serve as Coral Reef Management Fellows.
The Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program is administered by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program , which supports effective management and sound science to preserve, sustain, and restore valuable coral reef ecosystems.
The fellowship program is a two year program beginning January 2010 and ending January 2012.
Contact: Link to Complete RFP
Source: NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program
Request for Proposal: Ivy Foundation Announces New Funding Opportunity for Brain Cancer Research
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation is the nation's largest privately funded foundation dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for people diagnosed with a brain tumor. The foundation supports research designed to lead to the development of better diagnostics and treatment for patients with gliomas. In its inception year, 2008, the foundation awarded more than $10 million in total research funding.
The foundation has announced intended funding totaling up to $7.6 million through the 2009 Ivy Awards. The foundation's target area of impact for the 2009 awards is optimizing the efficiency of therapeutics development for adults with glioblastoma multiforme. The awards will provide up to $3 million each for three-year research projects.
Visit the Ivy Foundation Web site to access the complete Request for Proposals.
GuideStar - Connecting People with Nonproft information
Encourages nonprofits to share information about their organizations openly and completely. Any nonprofit in the database can update its report with information about its mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs–for free. [View]
Foundation Search
FoundationSearch is a leading source of fundraising information for non-profits and charities. This online resource includes more than 120,000 foundations, representing billions of dollars in annual granting, and includes tools to locate grants by type, value, year, recipient, donor and historical giving trends, and much more. [View]
Charity Commission Database
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is established by law as the regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. Their aim is to provide the best possible regulation of these charities in order to increase charities’ efficiency and effectiveness and public confidence and trust in them. [View]
MacArthur Foundation Announces Winners of 2009 Digital Media and Learning Competition
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced grants totaling $2 million to the nineteen winning projects in its 2009 Digital Media and Learning Competition, which included two categories: Innovation in Participatory Learning, open to individuals from the United States and ten other countries; and Young Innovators, open only to individuals in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 25.
Part of MacArthur's five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative, the global competition supports innovative projects that explore digital media's ability to help people learn and participate in civic life. The competition is funded by a MacArthur grant to the University of California, Irvine and Duke University and administered by HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), a virtual network of learning institutions.
Fifteen of the 2009 awardees are from the U.S., and one each is from Canada, India, Mexico, and South Africa. The winning projects, which received awards ranging from $9,000 to $211,000, include a $12 TV-computer, a video blogging site for young women in Mumbai, and a cutting-edge mobile phone application that lets school children perform collaborative science observations. Successful projects will promote learning and participation through games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, social networks, wikis, video blogs, and other media.
One of the winners was Women Aloud: Videoblogging for Empowerment (WAVE). They offer an unprecedented online presence for low-income women from across India with a unique digital platform for Indian women aged 18-25 (pictured above)
For a list of all the 2009 award recipients, visit the MacArthur Foundation Web site.
Global Competition Selects 19 Innovative Digital Media and Learning Projects to Share $2 Million.John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Press Release
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Institute of Fundraising Scotland Scottish Conference 2009
Hilton Glasgow, 1 William Street
Wednesday 11th – Thursday 12th November
Scottish Conference 2009 Opens for Bookings
The Institute of Fundraising Scotland annual conference launches today with early bookers receiving a 10% early bird discount on all passes. And our basic rates have been frozen at 2008 levels!
This year's programme reflects a theme of innovation and creativity in fundraising, with the widest range of speakers yet, and some exciting plenary sessions lined up.
Last year over 400 attended the biggest gathering of fundraisers in Scotland. Book now to take advantage of a 10% discount and- for Institute members only- further significant discounts of up to 33%! [More]
Giving & Volunteering Research Conference 2009
The event will be held on 9 July, 2009, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
At this one-day research conference, scholars present their most recent research on giving and volunteering. The conference aims to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas between academics from various disciplinary backgrounds and practitioners from the philanthropic sector.
Registration, paper proposals and further information: r.bekkers@fsw.vu.nl
2009 International Forum on Remittances
Event Dates: October 22-23rd, 2009 | Location: Tunis, Tunisia (Venue To Be Announced)
Cost: Free
Who Is Invited to Attend: Everyone
Online Registration Address : http://webapps.ifad.org/ert/
Background on Organizer: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an agency of the United Nations founded in 1977 to combat hunger by supporting agricultural development. IFAD has previously organized the 2007 and 2005 International Fora on Remittances. Based in Rome, Italy, IFAD’s Strategic Framework for IFAD 2007-2010: Enabling the Rural Poor to Overcome Poverty is available here and a list of projects by country, here. [More]
American Fund for Charities website launched
The American Fund for Charities is an American nonprofit organization with a mission to bring positive social change to people around the world. Our family of donors agree with us and join us in supporting a variety of causes and organizations throughout the world. We provide services to nonprofits to enable them to more effectively fundraise from American individual donors, companies and foundations.
Visit the website today!
How Twitter's #charitytuesday became an instant hit
On Lovebox's #charitytuesday, which each month promotes a different charity, no one is hassled for money, but simply asked to give a show of support.
What day is it?
A seemingly simple question.Yes, it's the second day of the week. The day the working world wakes fully, after a sluggish Monday start. But these days, it's more than just a Tuesday. For the second day has been claimed.
Stray into the Twitter-sphere, type #charitytuesday, and the work the voluntary sector has done in carving out a niche for itself will unfold. The use of tag signs (#) are a way Twitter users organise content. And the charity sector has made a praiseworthy landgrab.
#charitytuesday was named as such by a voluntary organisation called Lovebox, which each month promotes a different charity (at the moment WWF). The idea (born one Monday night) was that Tuesdays could provide a focal point for charities. It was an instant hit. "We tried it, and it worked within two hours," said Darshan Sanghrajka, one of the founders of Lovebox. Not only did supporters start backing Lovebox's chosen charity (then Cancer Research UK) by "wearing" a virtual badge, but they also began talking far more widely about charity issues. [Read more]
Source: Joe Public Blog - Guardian Online
Tracking your social media
Social media! I seriously think it’s "the" buzz word of 2009. According to Omniture, over 200 million searches are conducted every single day and 78% of people trust recommendations by peers. But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use? [Read more]
Source: FrogLoop
Youtube - Video Vollunteers
YouTube have luanched a new program called YouTube Video Volunteers in partnership with allforgood.org. Become a Youtube Video Volunteer. There are lots of great organizations who need your help to broadcast their cause and change the world. This is your chance to help! [Read more]
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Charitable Giving in the U.S Declines
Charitable giving fell last year by the largest percentage in five decades, according to a new study by the Giving USA Foundation. Individuals and institutions made gifts and pledges of $307.65 billion, a decrease of 5.7 percent on an inflation-adjusted basis over the $314 billion given in 2007, according to the Foundation, a research organization backed by the fund-raising industry. Some experts said they were surprised the drop was not even bigger, given that endowments fell by as much as 40 percent, the stock market declined by a similar margin, corporations posted unheard-of losses and unemployment was rising at a fast clip.
The Giving USA Foundation study found that the drop in giving accelerated in the fall, as the impact of the economic crisis and the steep decline in stock markets took hold.
Even with the steep drop, charitable giving remained strong. Last year’s giving outstripped all previous years on record except 2007, though the outlook for next year remains uncertain. [Read more]
Source: The New York Times
5 Tips to Engaging New Online Activists
Your nonprofit spends time and money growing your online list. But, does your nonprofit have a solid strategy to engage these new recruits and potential donors? Frogloop interviewed Madeline Stanionis and Jenn Smith of Watershed who discussed their top 5 tips to engaging new recruits. Check them out!
1. Give them love– fast!
How quickly you engage a new listmember after he/she has joined your list is critical to turning them into a long-term activist and/or supporter. Strike while the iron’s hot – leverage your recent joiners’ newfound interest in you and your work by sending them meaningful ways they can get plugged in to your cause right away. Cross promote your other communication platforms – mobile, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
2. Care about why they are with you.
Use targeted content that directly relates to how your new activists joined your file. Did they contact Congress on healthcare? Sign a petition to save polar bears? Update new activists on what is happening or has happened as a result of their action, then ask them to take the next step to help on that issue or on your next campaign. On the flip side, don’t forever put them in a box (e.g. “These are the people who only want to know about our work on healthcare.”) Your activists should know about the breadth of your work and hopefully be inspired to take action on many issues because they support your mission and your organization. [Read more]
Source: Frogloop - Care2's nonprofit online marketing blog
You Are What You Are Or Are You?
While some nonprofits go for a complete overhaul of name and brand, others realize they only need a few nips and tucks.
One of the first things Sharon Saxelby did when she became president and CEO at Friends of the Orphans was get started on updating the logo and brand. The Arlington Heights, Ill.-based nonprofit also added a tagline (“Raising children. Transforming lives.”) sharpening the focus on its mission.
The new brand and logo kicked off in April after a research effort that started this past summer.
Friends of the Orphans raises money for a network of nine Nuestros Pequerios Hermanos (NPH), which translates to “Our Little Brothers and Sisters,” and cares for more than 3,300 children in nine countries. It has 40 employees around the nation with an annual budget of almost $13 million.
Surveying and focus groups resulted in the nonprofit keeping its name, Friends of the Orphans.
“Friends of NPH didn’t mean anything more than Friends of Orphans, which instilled a sense of compassion,” Saxelby said. “When focus groups said, ‘That’s an envelope I’d open,‘ I thought‚ that’s key‚” she said. [Read more]
Source: The Nonprofit Times
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