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If you're in the market for a new website, you might want to check out this list of 30 nonprofit mission statements, rounded up by Nonprofit World.
They're great if you're in the market for a new logo, but if you're not in the market for a new mission statement, they're just as important, writes Julia Campbell.
"Mission statements are of vital importance to nonprofit communications because they convey, in one or two sentences, the purpose of the organization and why it exists," she writes.
"The casual visitor to your websiteor reader of your brochure needs to immediately understand why you exist and who you serveless about what it is that you do to accomplish that mission."
Selected Grant News Headlines
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Kaakpema Yelpaala grew up in Kenya, attended Harvard, and now lives in Yale, where he's a professor and the new director of the university's health technology program, the New York Times...more
"Access to financial advice and banking services is essential for any community to thrive and our Community Center Branches are at the center of lifting up communities by creating opportunities for...more
It's World Intellectual Property Day, and the pharmaceutical industry is taking note. In a press release, the industry's trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association,...more
The Star-Friedman Challenge, an annual contest that aims to spur cutting-edge scientific research, has announced its 2024 winners. Among the winners: a study on fat-handling organelles in...more
"We're like the kindling that gets the fire going," says Dr. Bryan Hartley, an associate professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who's working on a...more
"We are so used to being almost permanently online that we don't really appreciate what we have and do not really know what to do when we're not," Joni Mitchell wrote in her 1970s song "Big Yellow...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment
In 2024, Los Angeles will host the Mission Investors Exchange 2024 National Conference, an annual conference that brings together more than 750 philanthropy and impact investing leaders from across...more
Foundation: California Community Foundation, California Endowment
Ava DuVernay financed her latest film with money from the Giving Pledgean initiative of the California Endowment, the largest US foundation to commit its entire $4 billion portfolio to social and...more
The University of Utah's Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy has narrowed its list of finalists for its $500,000 Climate Launch Prize to seven. The goal of the prize, which is one of the...more
Foundation: Lancaster County Community Foundation
In 2024, Lancaster County, Pa., will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a group of "visionaries" who "came together to shape a better future for Lancaster County," says Sam Bressi, president and CEO...more
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Johnson Foundation
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation
California Endowment
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Lancaster County Community Foundation
Community Foundation of Southern Indiana
Community Giving Foundation
Hawaii Community Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Tow Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Social Entrepreneurship
Spotlight
Social Enterprise Pushes Continuity of Care and Home Births
The Neighbourhood Midwives, the brainchild of Annie Francis of Hampshire, offers midwifery services geared for the continuity of care to women and their families.
