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Kevin Spacey Foundation grant recipients on how it boosted their careers – Video – 1 May 2015 – WhatsOnStage.com Kevin Spacey Foundation grant recipients on how it boosted their careers

Applications for this year’s Kevin Spacey Foundation Artists Of Choice grants open today

In this video, recipients of the foundation’s grants – a financial boost of up to 10,000 for emerging artists and companies – explain the impact the help has had on their career.

Dance Recipient: “The generous assistance of KSF helped us to evolve a completely brand new way of perceiving dance, inspire and tangibly touch individual souls, and truly mark a new journey for each of the artists involved.”

KUSP’s Foundation is voting Monday at 6pm on whether to sell its license.

On Monday, at their annual meeting (6pm, Community Foundation of SC County, Aptos) KUSP’s foundation is voting on whether to sell its license.

Now, in a bind, the board is recommending the foundation sell the broadcast license to a southern California syndication company, Classical Public Radio Network, a group known for its predatory practices and bland Top-40 Classical music programming.

Other communities have vibrant, solvent, scrappy and relevant public and community radio stations.

Please join me in writing a letter, asap, to the board of directors of KUSP http://www.kusp.org/boards.shtml and urge them NOT to sell the license.

Philanthropies spread word with Spring Carnival – The Daily Collegian: Campus

For students who were not quite ready to hit the library in preparation for finals, the Second Annual Spring Carnival provided a break Thursday, courtesy of the Student Philanthropy Council and other philanthropic groups.

aThe purpose of this event is to highlight some of the things Student Philanthropy Council does, but also organizations around campus who have some sort of philanthropic mission to advertise themselves,a Geoff Hallett, the adviser for the Student Philanthropy Council, said.

Nonprofit arts and culture sector has $100M impact on Ann Arbor economy | MLive.com Nonprofit arts and culture sector has $100M impact on Ann Arbor economy Bassist James Simonson of Detroit-based band ‘The Brothers Groove’ belts out a lyric during the last day of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in downtown Ann Arbor. The Summer Festival is one of a number of nonprofit arts and culture organizations that have a major impact on the region’s economy. That doesn’t mean they can’t have an effect on the economy.

Neel HajraPhoto courtesy of the Ann Arbor Community Foundation

Preliminary results from a new study by the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation show a direct impact of more than $100 million from the region’s arts and culture nonprofits alone.

To help direct its investments, the foundation commissioned the study from Americans for the Arts in conjunction with the Arts Alliance in Washtenaw County that could help show the sector’s impact in a measurable way. More than 700 audience surveys have been gathered along with information from 87 nonprofit arts and culture organizations in the region and data collection will be ongoing through the month of May.

“We learned that there is an annual audience of more than 1.78 million people attending nonprofit arts and culture events in the Ann Arbor area,” he said.

The study found that two-thirds of that audience is local, and Hajra said he has people from young professionals to senior citizens telling him personally that the area’s arts and culture are among the primary reasons they call Ann Arbor home.

The CDC is listed as a $1 to $10 million contributor to CHAI, according to its donor list released earlier this month.

The Boston-based health arm of the Clinton Foundation has come under scrutiny for failing to disclose donations from foreign governments in violation of a pledge Clinton made to the Obama administration before she assumed office as secretary of state.

A Reuters report found that the health initiative stopped making its annual disclosure in 2010 and that “no complete list of donors to the Clintons’ charities has been published” since. reports, audits, performance standards).”

CHAI received hundreds of millions from foreign nations between 2009 and 2014, including: the United Kingdom ($79.7 million), Australia ($58.6 million), Norway ($38.1 million), Canada ($12.1 million), Ireland ($11.7 million), Sweden ($7.2 million), and New Zealand ($1.2 million).

The Boston Globe found that foreign donations “sharply accelerated” to CHAI when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.

“Government grants, nearly all from foreign countries, doubled to $55.9 million in 2013 from $26.7 million in 2010, according to the records,” the report said.

The health initiative broke off into a nonprofit separate from the Clinton Foundation in 2010, though it is still chaired by Bill and Chelsea Clinton.

The charities have remained intertwined. taxpayer funding from federal agencies and the 2009 stimulus law.

The Clinton Foundation lists several state and federal agencies as financial contributors, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The EPA is listed as contributing between $1,001 and $5,000, as is an agency entitled the “Office of Minority Health and Human Services.” The Office of Minority Health and Human Services, a state agency in Nebraska that recently changed its name to the Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity, said the donation could not have come from their office because they do no solicit or issue funding.

The EPA did not return request for comment.

State agencies in Arkansas have also given financial contributions to the Clinton Foundation, according to the organization’s website.

The Arkansas Minority Health Commission gave between $1,001 and $5,000. Michael Knox, executive director of the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, told the Free Beacon that the donation was for the Clinton Center’s annual “Head of the Class Bash” in June 2011 that paid for “car seat inspections, immunizations and health screenings, and backpacks with school supplies to the children of Arkansas.”

The Arkansas Energy Office is also listed as donating between $500,001 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation, though the contribution actually came from spending authorized by the 2009 stimulus law.

Scott Hardin, director of communications for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, told the Free Beacon that the Clinton Foundation received nearly $800,000 from his office, through a grant funded by the stimulus.

“The Energy Office distributed more than $50 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds a few years ago and the money provided to the Clinton Foundation was part of this effort,” he said.

The grant, amounting to $758,123, was provided to the Clinton Foundation in October 2009, Hardin said.

The funds went to the Clinton Foundation’s Home Energy Affordability Loan (HEAL) program, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings through “energy-efficiency and monitoring strategies.”

The Clinton Foundation received another stimulus grant on Sept. “In January, we incorrectly received a ‘gift receipt’ for a donation for the money we used for that event, and we notified the foundation of that error.”

In all, state and federal agencies have contributed between $1,402,187 and $1,414,184 directly to the Clinton Foundation.

Together with the health initiative, taxpayers have contributed roughly $7.4 million to Clinton charities.

The Clinton Foundation admitted it has “made mistakes” in disclosing donors after a barrage of recent news reports. uranium production through a deal that was signed off in part by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

The Clinton Foundation is also expected to refile some of its tax forms, according to a blog post written by Maura Pally, the foundation’s acting chief executive, who said that the organization “mistakenly combined” government grants with other donations.

The Clinton Foundation did not return requests for comment.

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Kane: Post-recession, nonprofits still strapped for cash

The 2008 recession hit the nonprofit industry hard. A CompassPoint study found that while the median nonprofit executive director earned $90,000, the median development director the employee tasked with securing grants from foundations earned $65,000.

The funding base of many foundations has increased substantially in recent years, but this increase has often not been accompanied by an increase in grantmaking. If grantmakers continue these practices, nonprofits seeking to ameliorate the effects of the recession on low- and middle-class Americans will not have enough funding to keep the lights on much less move the needle on their missions.

A Grantmakers for Effective Organization’s report found nonprofits generally spend about 20 percent of their grant funding on operating costs those not directly associated with their mission.

Cooperation is at the heart of a new initiative organized by the Scranton Area Community Foundation that will double donations made to 25 nonprofit organizations in the region.

Nancy Perri, communications and grant specialist at the center, said Match Day is a great way to raise awareness about what organizations do and how they work together.

Some groups organized events ahead of Match Day to get a head start on raising money.

The Greater Carbondale YMCA and the Greater Scranton YMCA worked together to organize an event Monday at Tiffany’s Tap & Grill, Archbald, which raised about $300.

George Ironman triathlon brings more than athletics to southern Utah
| Friday, May 01, 2015, 11:00 am |

The Independent

In conjunction with the Ironman 70.3 St. Ironman Foundation Community Fund will distribute more than $55,000 in grant George community with these community grant awards.”

All community grant recipients will be announced in the Ironman Village in the Town Square Park on Friday, May 1.

The Ironman Foundation’s Community Fund will provide a grant to be given to DOVE Center, $10,000 to Snow Cayon Park, $7,200 to Girls on the Run of Southern Utah, $6,500 to the Southern Utah Bicycle Alliance, $5,000 to the Utah Foster Care Foundation, $2,500 to Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Utah, and $5,000 to BOOYAH Foundation.

In addition to these grants, the Ironman Foundation’s

$1 million investment into charities from Real Insurance | Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine

Real Insurance has invested $1 million into a new community program that will provide funding to charities supporting children and youth.

Real Insurance launched a new grants
program in April, investing $1 million towards funding charities that assist children and youth.

The Real Needs program is offering total grants of $630,000 over six months, with amounts of $5,000, $10,000 and $20,000 to go to individual non-profit organisations that demonstrate innovative approaches for how the funding will be used to support youth programs.

Real Insurance staff will also have the opportunity to vote for their preferred charity to receive a monthly $5,000 ‘Staff Choice’ grant.

“Insurance has always been intrinsically linked to our community,” said Mark Reid, CEO of Greenstone (the distributor of Real Insurance). “I encourage all eligible organisations to apply so we can work together to support those who need it most.”

To be eligible for a Real Needs 2015 grant, nonprofit organisations must support children up to the age of 18 years and be a registered charity, community group or service, sporting club or hospital community program.

The announcement of the grants program’s launch was made as Real Insurance released the findings of a Galaxy Research survey of 1,017 people across Australia. Key findings were that while children’s charities ranked high in the causes respondents would donate to (second only to charities concerned with specific diseases like cancer), only 6% of people were donating to children’s education/after school care.

Sixty percent believed welfare groups should be responsible for supporting disadvantaged children.

Click here to find out more or apply for a grant from the Real Needs program.

The Three Fundamentals of Signature Fundraising Campaigns

By: GoFundraise

With over 1 million donations via its online platform, GoFundraise has compiled its Three Fundamentals of Signature Fundraising Campaigns white paper of insights as a resource for charities.

Fundraising with Facebook: Research Paper

By: Artez Interactive

The rise of Facebook is an important trend for charities and non-profits, with data showing 14% of donations were made from Facebook in the last 12 months. This whitepaper contains stats to help you determine what the best strategy is for your next Facebook fundraising campaign.

NFP sector in 2012

By: Makinson & d’Apice Lawyers

This report gauges stakeholders’ views and provide a platform for NFPs and community organisations from across Australia to have their say on the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits and other issues affecting the sector.

Survey into the Not for Profit Sector: 2012 Australian Fundraising

By: Deloitte

The recent spate of natural disasters across Australia has increased demand for services supporting national and international communities, according to Deloitte’s inaugural survey into the Not for Profit Sector Fundraising in 2012.

According to Deloitte Private partner, Alison Brown, this increase in demand for their services will mean that not for profits will need to diversify their operations to reduce reliance on Government funding.

This extensive study looks at not for profit challenges, fundraising trends and use of mobile technologies across the not for profit sector.