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What Will Replace 'Checkout Charity' After Big Retailers are Gone?

Selfish Giving

Over a decade the retailer had raised $100 million dollars for the hospital's cancer care and research, making Kmart the hospital's biggest donor in its 50+ year history. "It Behind all the smiles and applause in Memphis was the cold truth that online retail would soon steamroll Kmart into oblivion. Next $100 million in five years!

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Partnership Lessons From Rome's Colosseum ; Booking.com Creates ‘Travel Proud’ Program for LGBTQ+ Community ?? ; Black Rifle Coffee: Socially Conscious, Politicly Incorrect ??

Selfish Giving

Our tour guide was discussing preservation efforts at the Colosseum and how the Italian government had turned to the business community for support. They also won the right to associate its brand with the Colosseum’s restoration in promotional material for up to 15 years. ?? I was surprised there was no mention of a nonprofit partner.

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Newsletter: Your Nonprofit Needs an Audience ; Wash-for-a-Cure Aims to Raise $100,000 ; Can You Use a DAF to Pay for an Event Ticket?

Selfish Giving

About the same time last week I was speaking at the New Strategies Program at Georgetown University about audience-centric fundraising , Mark Hrywna at The Nonprofit Times was preparing to release an article that highlights just how much nonprofits need to focus on audience-building and raising more money from individuals.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In contrast, a 2017 report found that only 5 percent of nonprofits were using artificial intelligence, and only 28 percent of nonprofits were using data for predictive or prescriptive purposes. Anatomy of a Data Ecosystem Data ecosystems exist in many fields: finance, health care, retail, entertainment, elections, and even sports.

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Newsletter: This Charity Pin-up Raised $323M ??; Krispy Kreme Launches Dough-nate for a Donut ; Brand Activism vs Social Good: What’s the Difference?

Selfish Giving

This month you can buy a shamrock at 20,000 retails locations. Scentsy just wrapped up a six-month partnership with the American Heart Association that raised over $130,000. Strategic Partnerships Associate, ACLU (NYC) 2. The campaign has been around for 37 years. During that time it's raised a whopping $323 million.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.” An ecosystem of scientist- and scholar-led nonprofit organizations has emerged to fight bias in AI systems.

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Something’s Gotta Give: 6 Ways For GivingTuesday To Benefit Women’s Changing Philanthropy

Fundraising Leadership

Read more in Take the Lead on nonprofits in philanthropy The good news, according to Philanthropy Women, is contributions to family and gender-based violence organizations rose by 17.9% increase from government grants from 2019 to 2020, but far below the 36.6% between 2019 and 2020. Yet, women’s and girls’ organizations saw a 10.1%