TOPIC: PHILANTHROPY (31)

Impatient Optimists

http://www.impatientoptimists.org

On this blog you’ll find stories from the people working every day to help alleviate poverty, to help promote health, and to help every student in the United States realize his or her full potential. Impatient Optimists features the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s grantees, partners, leadership, and staff, as well as other bloggers, to provide commentary and insight on these issues.

Funders for LGBTQ Issues

http://www.lgbtfunders.org

Working side-by-side with funders and our movement’s organizations through three decades, Funders for LGBTQ Issues remains the sole organization dedicated exclusively to increasing institutional giving to LGBTQ communities.

EVPA

http://evpa.eu.com

EVPA is a membership association made up of organisations interested in or practicing venture philanthropy across Europe. Established in 2004, the association is a unique network of venture philanthropy organisations and others committed to promoting high-engagement philanthropy in Europe.

International Development Exchange IDEX

http://www.idex.org

IDEX identifies, evaluates, and grows the best ideas to alleviate poverty & injustice, connecting passionate and engaged supporters to visionary local leaders & organizations around the world.

Give Something Back

http://www.givesomethingback.com/thm78HomeUSM.aspx

Give Something Back is here to make the experience of buying office supplies for your business a whole lot more fun and personal while keeping prices competitive. Thanks to the company's unique giving model, profits go to hard-working nonprofit organizations who share in the Give Something Back mission to improve local communities and help the environment thrive

The Awesome Foundation

http://www.awesomefoundation.org

We are an ever-growing, worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons. The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest.
The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.

Hard Rock Philanthropy

http://www.hardrock.com/philanthropy

Since 1971, Hard Rock has been committed to a wide range of philanthropic causes and activities around the World. Our passionate and dedicated team members in our Local Ambassador Program help our communities on a daily basis. As Hard Rockers, our actions are guided by mottos, which can be seen on the walls of every Hard Rock Cafe, Hotel and Casino location, and help us in our goal to make the Earth a safer, healthier and better place for all.

Skoll Foundation

http://www.skollfoundation.org

The Skoll Foundation drives large scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Philanthropy Action

http://www.philanthropyaction.com

Our vision is for philanthropy to evolve into a sector that is more thoughtful and effective. We want to see money move to places where it does the most good and away from where it does the least. In short, we want philanthropy to behave more like a market. We recognize that markets have failings and aren’t appropriate or feasible in all situations. Where they aren’t, we want the available alternatives to be based on knowledge about what is truly helpful.

The Prem Rawat Foundation

http://tprf.org

The Prem Rawat Foundation strives to address fundamental human needs so that people everywhere can live their lives with dignity, peace, and prosperity.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

http://www.gatesfoundation.org

Our belief that every life has equal value is at the core of our work at the foundation. We follow 15 guiding principles, which help define our approach to our philanthropic work, and employ an outstanding leadership team to direct our strategies and grantmaking.

Philanthropy Fashion and Compassion

http://www.philanthropyfashion.com

Philanthropy opened in June of 2007 with the belief that a business built around charitable works and grounded in Christ could make a difference in the world.

Philanthropy Journal

http://www.philanthropyjournal.org

The Philanthropy Journal is an independent voice and champion for nonprofits and their supporters.

PACE

http://www.pacefunders.org

PACE's mission is to inspire interest, understanding, and investment in civic engagement.

True Colors Fund

http://www.truecolorsfund.org

The True Colors Fund empowers the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) and allied community to volunteer and support the organizations working on their behalf.