MDF Brussels and Keylance are organizing a Seminar on Fundraising at U.S. foundations and the European Commission designed for fundraisers and other staff of development organizations that want to explore new fundraising markets or have already taken a first step in the diversification of their funds. It will be held on April 22th from 9 am to 5 pm in Brussels.

The seminar is structured…

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Imagine not being able to turn away from a problem that you see in this world. You are compelled by a sense of responsibility, passion, and the audacity to believe that you can do something about that problem. You have decided to take the leap and start an organization, an initiative, or a social enterprise.

To do so, you of course need resources. You don’t have them. You have to ask those with money to invest in you.

Imagine sitting across the table from a potential donor,…

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GlobalGiving is an innovative online fundraising platform. Since 2002, more than 5700 projects have raised over $67 million through GlobalGiving.org. Some of the benefitsof joining GlobalGiving include access to custom fundraising tools, trainings, and funding from corporate partnerships.

 

Nonprofits can join the site through the Global Open Challenge.…

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Atlas Corps Welcomes Class 9*


Thursday, June 7, 2012, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
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Do you work with a great US-based nonprofit, or do you know of a nonprofit that could use fundraising support? Or, are you a social entrepreneur looking for a sustainable source of income for your project? As the global economy finds its balance again, GlobalGiving provides unique tools to help nonprofits expand and activate their donor networks.

 

GlobalGiving is an innovative online fundraising…

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This week I re-entered an aid “institution” after five years of working with small foundations and local groups.

After just two short days, I can’t help but be reminded of why I left.

I am once again surrounded by smart, driven, committed people. But unfortunately they are largely a group of people who are also exhausted, overwhelmed, and discouraged by fighting while propagating the very organizations in which they serve. From my still outsider’s perspective, it’s as if the…

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In honor of this week's Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting, I'm reposting this from early October last year. The issues remain the same; the fundraising resources for local organizations still needed.

“Is a trickle of that money ever going to reach us?”…

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Join us as we celebrate 5 years + 100 Fellows + 50 Host Organizations

 

Atlas Corps 5th Year Highlight Tour!

October 6, 2011 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Policy (1904 14th St NW, Washington, DC)

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Marc Maxson is not your usual aid worker.

Yes, he is a returned Peace Corps volunteer, lives in Kenya, works for a Washington D.C.-based non-governmental organization, and is married to someone also employed in aid.

But Marc Maxson also has a PhD in neuroscience.

So what does that enable Marc to do as an aid worker? Marc develops new conceptual approaches to solving "impossible" problems, of which there are many in international development.…

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The storm that has devastated Japan is hardly past. But as charities appeal and the public offers up their support, I cannot help but think of the three friends in southern Africa,…

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What do you do when your personal experience of living and working with people in Africa is so different than what is portrayed in the western media or by many charitable organizations? Confronted with this, Duncan McNicholl, an Engineers Without Borders Canada worker living in Malawi, decided in early 2010 to begin exploring these perceptions of poverty. He took pictures of friends and neighbors in his community as both poor and rich, and then… Continue

Big money is on the table. $2.5 billion here. $40 billion there.



This week it’s SoCap. Last week it was the U.S. Global Leadership… Continue