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Medical Ministry International receives the premier ranking from Charity Navigator for its Health Centers, Residency Training, and Project Teams that provided over US$80 Million in services to the poor. MMI Staff and Volunteers executed programs that included an estimated 25,100 Eye Surgeries plus hundreds of thousands of Vision Care Services, General Surgeries, Orthopaedic, Integrated Health, Physical Therapy, Primary Care, Dental, Water/Sanitation, and Agriculture with 98.5% of donations...
Social Fundraising Platform, Rally.org, now available in Germany. Frankfurt, Germany (PRWEB) February 14, 2013 The social fundraising platform, Rally, has entered into Beta. Users in Germany and Continental Europe may now employ the platform for fundraising, and are able to accept donations in Euro. The successful entry to the continent will soon be followed by the next step: expansion to Great Britain. Rally.org, recently named one of the “Most Promising Companies for 2013” by the...
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WealthEngine(TM), Inc., the leading provider of sophisticated wealth identification and prospect research solutions, announced today the release of a report, Best Practices for Fundraising for Advocacy and Community Organizations, that provides nonprofits with actionable best practices for raising funds via campaigns, annual giving, major gifts and social media. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101026/PH88667LOGO )...
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitat for Humanity - New York City is extremely pleased to welcome Neil Hetherington as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Hetherington served as the Chief Executive Officer of Habitat for Humanity Toronto for the past twelve years, and brings deep experience in all facets of leading and successfully growing the number of low-income working families who help themselves become first-time homeowners and improve the...
ATLANTA, Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Plungers will "bear" the cold waters at LanierWorld at Sunset Cove on February 16 to support the athletes of Special Olympics Georgia in the fourth annual Polar Plunge fundraiser. The Polar Plunge is one of the "coolest" fundraisers where participants raise money and plunge into the chilly waters of Lake Lanier. The plungers bring quite the excitement to the fundraiser by dressing up in crazy costumes and celebrating the success of...
Cube Works Inc., a Cincinnati based Software Company releases the iGrantsUSA web-based software application service to bridge the administration gap between grant funders and grant recipients. Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) February 06, 2013 In November 2012 at a national higher education conference in Washington D.C., Cube Works Inc. launched iGrantsUSA, where it received high praises by Grant Administrators from across the country. iGrantsUSA is one of the very few software products designed...
NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporate Giving Standard (CGS) survey, conducted by CECP in association with The Conference Board, will open on February 1, 2013. The survey each year allows for CECP members and non-member Fortune 500 companies to compile a clear accounting of their corporate cash and non-cash giving. Through accompanying CECP analysis and support, the CGS serves as a self-assessment and benchmarking tool for companies. The data from the CGS survey...
Cyr Family Charitable Fund co-founders Dr. Steven J. Cyr and Mrs. Le Ann M. Cyr announced that they hosted a fundraiser for MedSend, a non-profit organization at their home in San Antonio, Texas. MedSend enables highly qualified and dedicated healthcare professionals to serve spiritually and physically needy people around the world in the name of Christ. San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) January 31, 2013 The Cyrs recently hosted a dinner at their home for Connecticut-based MedSend, a non-profit...
DALLAS, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange Leap's Shine Brighter Series features Matt McCabe from Pursuant presenting "I Have A Dream: The Importance of Vision At Every Donor Level" on February 14, 2013. Simply put, donors give to a vision that stirs their philanthropic passion. This session will explore why nonprofits must prove the efficacy of their vision and work in order to garner long-term, committed donors. Clarity and articulation of the vision ties all fundraising efforts...
Current approach to strategic philanthropy limits its own potential WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Strategic philanthropy has helped make the nonprofit sector more effective, but a new report released today by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP; www.ncrp.org) contends that it is limited by its top-down, technocratic approach. The report recommends the use of approaches familiar to social justice philanthropy to address these limitations,...
