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Engiven | November 16, 2022

Today, Engiven, a leading cryptocurrency donation technologies company, announced that Simple Donation, a leader of integrated giving technologies via the RockRMS platform, has selected Engiven to provide a fully-integrated crypto donation solution for their customers. Simple Donation is leveraging Engiven's application programming interface (API) to add cryptocurrency donations to their existing payment methods. This new giving solution will be made available to their base of...

Illinois Bank | April 15, 2020

A Stateline bank is stepping up to help area non-profits support front line workers during the COVID-19 crisis. Illinois Bank & Trust donated $100,000 total to two local organizations. The YMCA of Rock River Valley received $75,000 that will go towards the Y’s COVID-19 emergency childcare program. The program is available to all essential workers in the Rockford area. $25,000 went to the Galena Art and Recreation Center. The cash will be used to support the center’s childcare pro...

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 ...

Nonprofit Management

Philanthropy News Digest | November 05, 2020

Despite a drop in investment income, overall revenue for the largest nonprofits in the United States increased 1.15 percent on a year-over-year basis in fiscal year 2019, the NonProfit Times reports. According to the 2020 edition of the NPT 100, the longest-running study of nonprofits that derive at least 10 percent of their revenue from public support, the hundred largest nonprofits reported aggregate total revenue of $86.42 billion, up from $84.7 billion in FY18. Public support grew a modest 2...