Center for Nonprofit Advancement

United Way | July 28, 2020

The United Way of North Central Massachusetts announced this week that it will award $555,357 in grants to support 40 local nonprofit programs through its Community Impact Fund. In addition, UWNCM has raised and is currently distributing more than $300,000 in grants to help families and individuals impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, bringing its total recent grant distributions to nearly $1 million. The UWNCM Community Impact Fund gives grants annually to programs that address the region’s m...

Nonprofit Technology, Social Movements and Community

Businesswire | August 11, 2023

SCS Technologies (SCS), a leading provider of CO2 compression and measurement systems, methane vapor recovery units and petroleum LACT units, today announced a partnership with One Tree Planted to plant one million trees by 2030. SCS will plant 100 trees with One Tree Planted for every unit SCS produces. To date, SCS has planted over 5,000 trees as part of its commitment “As an advocate for the energy industry's shift towards sustainable practices, SCS Technologies tak...

Facebook | January 30, 2020

COMMUNITY COLLEGES, charter schools, government offices and other institutions in rural areas of Western North Carolina are expected to gain high-speed internet access thanks to a collaboration between Facebook and a local nonprofit organization. MCNC, a technology nonprofit that operates a broadband network that connects 750 of the state's institutions, announced Tuesday that it is working with Facebook to bring high-speed internet to five North Carolina counties: Rutherford, Burke, Caldwel...

Aplos Software | June 20, 2020

In just 30 days, more than $30,000 in discounts have been given to nonprofits and churches in the wake of COVID-19 to enable them to get the software and digital tools they need to resume their operations in the weeks and months ahead. Aplos has been practically giving away their software platform, with the option of adding mobile giving and communications features, in an effort to help nonprofits and churches operate remotely while sheltering in place due to the coronavirus. Traditional ways th...