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Bank of America | January 13, 2020

The Portland-based chapter of a growing national financial literacy nonprofit organization has received a $200,000 grant to increase its outreach. Bank of America announced in November that it had awarded the grant to Financial Beginnings Oregon. The organization will use the funds to reach an additional 5,000 Oregonians with free financial education. "The Oregon Department of Education sets financial literacy standards at every grade level, but the teachers aren't supported and the stu...

Fundraising, Nonprofit Technology

SBB Research Group Foundation | September 20, 2022

Reading Power received a $5,000 grant from the SBB Research Group Foundation, which awards monthly grants to support impactful organizations during the pandemic. Reading Power, a tutoring organization, serves under-resourced schools in Lake County, Illinois, by providing one-to-one tutoring to pre-kindergarten through second grade students. “Our mission is to accelerate children’s literacy learning to help them develop a love of reading and writi...

Nonprofit Technology

Betty White Challenge | January 17, 2022

There is a social media challenge sweeping the country and raising a lot of money for animals. It’s called the Betty White Challenge, and it was inspired by the well-known actress by the same name. Since Betty’s death on December 31 of last year, Good Neighbors throughout the world, especially here in mid-Michigan, are stepping forward and raising a lot of money for animal charities. Shelley Bessel of St. John’s is one of them. Shelley says she is ...

Greater Worcester Community Foundation | April 09, 2020

The Worcester Together fund, a COVID-19 relief fund established by the Greater Worcester Community Foundation and the United Way of Central Massachusetts in collaboration with the city of Worcester, has given $400,000 in grants to area nonprofit organizations that work with communities that are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Worcester County. The grants are for nonprofits that are helping to meet the immediate needs of individuals during the crisis, such as food, shelter...