Monthly Archives: March 2019

County Durham Community Foundation takes a collaborative approach to supporting local youth groups, in partnership with The Good Exchange

North East-based grant-maker calls on local charitable organisations, donors and funders to work together via the platformNewbury, 20th MARCH 2019 – Not-for-profit cloud platform, The Good Exchange, has today announced the latest funder to be added to its platform: County Durham Community Foundation (Foundation). The Foundation is an independent grant-making charity, providing grants that make a genuine difference to the lives of local people. The Foundation manages charitable trusts donated by local individuals, families, businesses…

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Book Review: The social enterprise zoo: A guide for perplexed scholars, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, leaders, investors and policymakers by Young, D. R., Searing, E. A. M., & Brewer, C. V. (Eds.)

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print.

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Financial & Societal Pressures Driving Rise in Grant Applications, Say Charity Grant-Makers, Yet Digital Skills Gap & Legacy Processes Hampering Efforts

Commissioned by The Good Exchange, Vanson Bourne surveyed charitable grant-makers and applicants on the current grant application landscape, finding hundreds of hours are being spent completing application forms per year, when just two in five are successfulNewbury, March 6, 2019 – Not-for-profit cloud platform, The Good Exchange, has today announced the results of new research ‘Technology in the Charitable Sector’, into the current grant application and distribution landscape. The findings have revealed significant levels of…

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Change.org Scales to Support Petitions in 29 Languages with Unbabel

With more than 375 million users spanning 196 countries, Change.org is the world’s largest platform for social change. As such, the start-up services a massive multilingual user base. The customer service team, which is comprised of just 15 people, deploys Unbabel’s AI-powered, human-refined translation solution to meet these growing demands. San Francisco, 5th March 2019: Change.org’s stated mission is to “empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see,” and over the past…

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