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Meet For Impact | May 24, 2022

The Meet For Impact platform is set to raise funds in its next seed round to expand into new international markets. The online social fundraising auctions platform opens offices in the USA, the UK, the UAE, and Kazakhstan. Launched in 2016 as Meet for Charity, the platform quickly became one of the most well-known tech impact projects in Eastern Europe and has already crowdfunded over $3 million dollars for over 120 charities. Structured as a LLC, the initiative stands out in the philanthropic l...

Fidelity Charitable | February 13, 2020

Boston-based Fidelity Charitable has announced that its donor-advised funds awarded a record $7.28 billion in grants in 2019, an increase of 39 percent on a year-over-year basis and of more than 500 percent compared with 2010. According to the organization's 2020 Giving Report (32 pages, PDF), robust stock market returns contributed to the result, with donors recommending 1.5 million grants to 155,000 charities in 2019, up from 840,000 grants to 142,000 charities in 2018. The number of DAF a...

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Habitat for Humanity International | June 14, 2022

Leveraging funds provided in part by MacKenzie Scott's transformational donation, Habitat for Humanity International is launching a new initiative to address the racial homeownership gap—which now stands at nearly 30 percent, the widest it has been in more than 40 years. Habitat's Advancing Black Homeownership initiative deepens our commitment to increase homeownership opportunities for Black individuals and families—and address the racial and systemic bias tha...

Amazon | January 24, 2020

Amazon announced a USD 2 million total donation to two Washington nonprofit organisations working to make STEM and computer science education more accessible, equitable, and meaningful for hundreds of thousands of Washington State students, especially those from underserved and underrepresented communities. The donation includes USD 1 million to Washington STEM, a statewide nonprofit organisation that advances excellence, innovation and equity in STEM for all Washington students, and USD 1 milli...