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London politics
fromwww.bbc.com
2 hours ago

Charity 'feels the pinch' of higher energy prices

Higher energy and fuel prices due to the Middle East conflict are impacting food charities and businesses in the UK.
European startups
fromTNW | Insider
1 day ago

Recap: Europe's top funding rounds this week (30 March - 5 April)

European ambition in technology focuses on building infrastructure layers across various sectors, including AI, quantum computing, and investment strategies.
#philanthropy
Fundraising
fromFast Company
2 days ago

How giving starts progress and leadership scales it

Volatility and accountability are transforming philanthropy, requiring leadership to drive impactful change.
Fundraising
fromsfist.com
3 days ago

Craiglist's Craig Newmark Is Inspiring Billionaires to Donate Their Fortunes Like He Is

Craig Newmark signed the Giving Pledge to donate up to $1 billion to nonprofits, encouraging other wealthy individuals to do the same.
Fundraising
fromFast Company
2 days ago

How giving starts progress and leadership scales it

Volatility and accountability are transforming philanthropy, requiring leadership to drive impactful change.
Fundraising
fromsfist.com
3 days ago

Craiglist's Craig Newmark Is Inspiring Billionaires to Donate Their Fortunes Like He Is

Craig Newmark signed the Giving Pledge to donate up to $1 billion to nonprofits, encouraging other wealthy individuals to do the same.
#bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
fromBitcoin Magazine
2 days ago

Jack Dorsey Teases Bitcoin Faucet Revival With "Bitcoin Day" Post

Jack Dorsey announced a new initiative called 'Bitcoin Day' offering free Bitcoin, reviving the concept of the Bitcoin faucet.
Cryptocurrency
fromBitcoin Magazine
4 days ago

HRF's Bitcoin Development Fund Supports 26 Projects

HRF announces 1.5 billion satoshis in grants to enhance Bitcoin infrastructure, privacy, and education for human rights and financial freedom.
Social media marketing
fromForbes
2 days ago

5 Social Media-Based Side Hustles To Make Extra Income Online

Social media offers lucrative side hustle opportunities, including management services, live shopping, UGC creation, and paid ads services.
Marketing tech
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era | TechCrunch

Brett Levenson advocates for 'policy as code' to improve content moderation at Facebook, addressing deeper issues beyond technology.
#creator-economy
fromForbes
4 days ago
Marketing

The Great Convergence: Why The Creator Economy's Future Belongs To Those Who Unite Social, Brand, And Talent

Media industry
fromForbes
4 days ago

Trust Is Becoming The Most Valuable Currency In The Creator Economy

Audiences now seek trust in content, influencing their decision-making and the value of creators' work.
fromForbes
6 days ago
Growth hacking

Stop Betting On One Platform: The Creator's New Monetization Playbook

fromForbes
1 week ago
Growth hacking

From #Ad To #Owner: The Creator Economy's Next Phase Is About Equity

Business
fromSocial Media Explorer
2 months ago

The Infrastructure Behind the Creator Economy Most People Ignore - Social Media Explorer

Sustainable creator businesses rely on independent infrastructure—websites, payment systems, CRM, and operations—not just platform visibility.
Venture
fromDigiday
1 month ago

WTF is a creator capital market?

Creators are experimenting with selling future earnings and tokenized ownership, forming an emerging creator capital market across crypto, traditional finance, and investment platforms.
Marketing
fromForbes
4 days ago

The Great Convergence: Why The Creator Economy's Future Belongs To Those Who Unite Social, Brand, And Talent

The entertainment industry is shifting power to creators, with traditional advertising losing relevance as the creator economy rapidly expands.
Media industry
fromForbes
4 days ago

Trust Is Becoming The Most Valuable Currency In The Creator Economy

Audiences now seek trust in content, influencing their decision-making and the value of creators' work.
Growth hacking
fromForbes
6 days ago

Stop Betting On One Platform: The Creator's New Monetization Playbook

Creators should diversify their platforms to build steady income and avoid dependency on a single source.
Growth hacking
fromForbes
1 week ago

From #Ad To #Owner: The Creator Economy's Next Phase Is About Equity

The creator economy is shifting towards ownership stakes rather than traditional sponsored content as brands face rising costs and declining trust.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Startup funding shatters all records in Q1 | TechCrunch

Global startup investment reached $297 billion in Q1 2026, driven by four record-breaking deals, significantly surpassing previous funding levels.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The kindness of strangers: An online forum user shipped me a car radiator, saving me from financial ruin

After worrying that he was somehow trying to scam me, I reluctantly sent him my address. A week later, the radiator arrived on my doorstop. A mate was able to help me install it and bingo the car worked again.
Relationships
Podcast
fromTheankler
5 days ago

Inside The Chernin Group's Bet on Creator-Led Empires

Community is the most valuable asset in media, driving investment strategies for emerging media companies.
fromGamesBeat
5 days ago

Esports Foundation selects 40 esports clubs for $20M club partner program

The Esports Foundation Club Partner Program reaches fans globally and changes the way they experience esports. Over the past editions, it has created a platform for Clubs to strengthen their brands and engage with audiences.
Online Community Development
Healthcare
fromTNW | Startups-Technology
5 days ago

myStoria closes $1.6M seed led by Graphite Ventures

myStoria combines AI and human expertise to assist patients with reproductive health conditions, addressing diagnostic delays and fragmented care.
Education
fromTODAY.com
5 days ago

High School Teens Are Repairing Used Cars to Donate to Single Moms

Students repair cars to gift to single moms, providing essential transportation for jobs, education, and medical needs.
#nonprofit
Social media marketing
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Flipboard's new 'social websites' help publishers and creators tap into the open social web | TechCrunch

Flipboard launched social websites, enabling creators to consolidate content and build communities around their work on decentralized platforms.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 week ago

You Don't Have to Be Unionized to Be United | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

The labor of this kind of organizing was invisible and deeply exhausting. In a precarious workplace, where a so-called 'performance review' could amount to job loss, organizing meant building a bridge while standing on it.
Social justice
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
4 days ago

Three newsletters for the price of 1.5: Independent journalists experiment with a bundle

Bundling independent journalism subscriptions can reduce costs for readers and support multiple writers effectively.
Marketing
fromEntrepreneur
6 days ago

The Future of PR Is Collaborative. Here's Why Lone Wolves Will Lose

Collaboration is the primary driver of growth in the PR industry, replacing competition.
Social media marketing
fromDigiday
4 days ago

Meta's bid to woo creators to Facebook just might work, despite its recent legal woes

Meta's Facebook Creator Fast Track program offers guaranteed payouts to attract creators, despite recent legal challenges regarding user safety.
Venture
fromTNW | Startups-Technology
5 days ago

Standing Ovation raises 30M Series B round

Standing Ovation raised €30 million for US commercial rollout of Advanced Casein, produced through precision fermentation from dairy waste streams.
Social justice
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Modern social impact conferences need a new playbook

Conferences must address real tensions and foster candid discussions to remain relevant and effective in today's uncertain environment.
fromDaily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
1 week ago

Study: Social Enterprises Beat Corporate Sustainability in Farmer Well-Being

The study frames each of the models as 'emerging strategies' that can either complement or serve as alternatives to well-known sustainability certification schemes such as Organic, Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance.
Online Community Development
fromHarvard Business Review
1 week ago

Treat Nonprofits as Strategic Partners, Not Just Philanthropic Recipients

Most for-profit companies still confine nonprofit relationships to corporate philanthropy. Donations flow through foundations, annual reports highlight community contributions, and nonprofit engagement is framed as evidence of corporate responsibility.
Non-profit organizations
fromFortune
4 days ago

Macquarie bets impact investing can fill an Asian financial access gap left by microfinance and commercial banks | Fortune

"The specific barrier is capital," says Lisa George, global head of the Macquarie Group Foundation. "Without access to capital, it's very hard to get social mobility and educational mobility in life."
Fundraising
Venture
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups | TechCrunch

Runway is launching a $10 million fund to invest in AI, media, and world simulation startups, aiming to create a video intelligence ecosystem.
fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks ago

She Invited Homeless Men to Run. That Instinct Fueled Her $100M Business.

Why do I get to be the runner, and these guys get to be the homeless guys on the corner? Why can't we all be runners? She didn't have an answer. It would've been easy to let that question dissolve with her footsteps. Most people would have. But Mahlum saw something in those men that others had missed.
Running
Left-wing politics
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

This Is the Next Wave of Political Fundraising

Content creators are increasingly leveraging their platforms for direct political fundraising, raising tens of thousands of dollars in single streams and establishing organized coalitions to convert followers into donors for campaigns and causes.
Venture
fromTNW | Investors-Funding
6 days ago

Rebellions closes $400M pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation

Rebellions, a South Korean AI chip company, raised $650M in six months, targeting Meta and xAI as customers, and valued at $2.34 billion.
fromwww.boardgamequest.com
3 weeks ago

Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week 3/9/26

For the Gods! Conquer the Greek islands by building towering monuments to the Gods! A game by Trevor Benjamin, Brett J. Gilbert & David Thompson. Current Status: Funded! Platform: Kickstarter Pledge Amount: 55+ Ends: Tuesday, March 10th
Board games
Marketing
fromForbes
3 weeks ago

Marketing 'Best Practices' That May Be Holding Your Nonprofit Back

Nonprofits should challenge outdated marketing practices by prioritizing leader visibility, impact-focused messaging, and relationship-building over transactional approaches to build stronger audience connections and sustainable growth.
Fundraising
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Guardian view on falling donations to charity: rising living costs are part of the problem, but not all of it | Editorial

UK charitable donations fell from 15.4 billion to 14 billion, marking the first overall drop since 2021, with fewer donors giving smaller amounts despite high-profile fundraising campaigns.
#open-source-funding
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Non-profit organizations

A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Non-profit organizations

A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch

fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

You Don't Need Awards to Raise VC - You Need These 2 Things

Awards may be encouraging and occasionally useful for visibility, but they are weak indicators of validation and poor predictors of long-term success. In the longevity and healthspan industry, where timelines are long and claims are easy to overstate, venture capital ultimately follows alignment and evidence, not applause received at glitzy industry events.
Healthcare
Fundraising
fromBusiness Matters
2 weeks ago

Virgin StartUp unveils 20m funding pot for UK founders after passing 100m Start Up Loans milestone

Virgin StartUp announces £20 million funding for UK entrepreneurs in 2026-2027, its largest annual allocation since 2013, supporting early-stage business launches through government-backed Start Up Loans.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
3 weeks ago

Rotating the Clipboard Built Our Workplace Democracy | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Losing staff could be detrimental to the projects we worked on, and there was a growing dissatisfaction with how meetings were run. These mostly one-sided discussions left the quieter half of us feeling pushed aside, like our thoughts didn't matter much. If things stayed this way, I worried the good people on our team would start quitting one by one.
Non-profit organizations
Software development
fromVue.js Jobs
1 month ago

Engineering Team Leader, Campaign Pages at Fundraise Up - VueJobs

Fundraise Up is a global, enterprise-scale fundraising platform focused on performance, accessibility, and a complex TypeScript-based product ecosystem for nonprofits worldwide.
Fundraising
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

GoFundMe launches AI fundraising coach to help people raise more money

GoFundMe launched an AI-powered smart fundraising coach to help users overcome the psychological barrier of asking for help by guiding campaign creation and optimizing fundraising effectiveness.
Venture
fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks ago

17 creator-economy startups to watch in 2026, according to VCs

AI-powered tools are transforming the creator economy by automating content production, influencer marketing, and business operations while enabling new monetization models.
Software development
fromVue.js Jobs
1 month ago

Product Analyst, Core team at Fundraise Up - VueJobs

Product Analyst role at Fundraise Up supporting a global fundraising platform with enterprise product ecosystem, modern web stack, high-throughput architecture, and a distributed engineering team.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars?

I've always thought it would be good to acquire an old warehouse in every town throughout the land and convert it into low-rent community workspaces for artists, local charities and small businesses getting off the ground. A kind of people's WeWork. What would others do with a humungous, but not unlimited, pile of dosh to benefit society? Roland Freeman, West Yorkshire Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.
Left-wing politics
Venture
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How to get funded in 2026 if you're not an AI startup in San Francisco

Physical-world companies face structural funding challenges requiring stacked capital sources and disciplined execution rather than single institutional rounds.
Fundraising
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Charity hopes new HQ can bring people together

Health Connections Guernsey purchased Beatrice House for £1m to create a community hub where younger and older islanders connect through intergenerational activities and support services.
fromFortune
1 month ago

GoFund Me campaign seeks to buy Bitcoin to help spur Nancy Guthrie's release | Fortune

Bitcoin payments continue to play a role in the quest for clues about the whereabouts of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old whose mysterious abduction earlier this month has captivated the nation. In the latest development, a Tuscon native has created a GoFundMe account with the goal of buying Bitcoin to get information about what happened to the mother of 'Today' show anchor Savannah Guthrie.
US news
US politics
fromFast Company
2 months ago

GoFundMe confirms that a $1.4 million fundraising campaign for Renee Nicole Good is verified

GoFundMe verified an authentic campaign that raised over $1.4 million for Renee Good’s family after her fatal shooting by an ICE agent.
World news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Mothers in the U.S. use crowdfunding tactics to help families in war-torn Gaza

Mothers in Michigan formed an informal online crowdfunding network to raise money for Gaza families to afford food, shelter, and basic needs.
Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

GTMfund has rewritten the distribution playbook for the AI era | TechCrunch

Startups succeed by mastering distribution and go-to-market differentiation rather than relying solely on product development in the AI-driven startup era.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

They Build Bridges to Create Opportunities for Others

Meaningful milestones reveal how relationships, generativity, and sacrifice create belonging, stability, and enduring family legacy.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 months ago

This Is Not a Retreat | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

The change in the administration's tactics in Minneapolis is not a retreat. Instead, they are regrouping and planning another mode of attack, with the hopes that their repression might be met with resistance that is easier to control and contain. People who garner their relevancy and power through the dehumanization and oppression of others will do whatever it takes to cling to their soulless sense of self.
US politics
Venture
fromExchangewire
1 month ago

Bedrock Platform Closes Seed Extension Round Led by FirstPartyCapital, with Aperiam Ventures Joining as Co-Investor

Bedrock Platform closed a seed extension led by First Party Capital with Aperiam Ventures joining, securing capital and expertise to accelerate product development and US expansion.
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 months ago

Nonprofits Devise Creative Solutions to Address Federal Funding Cuts | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Over the years, I've worked as a consultant on numerous federal grant projects from the US Department of Agriculture and elsewhere that focused on local economic development and were granted to nonprofits serving their communities. But since the 2024 elections, the focus of my work-and that of the small New Mexico-based consulting firm, Prospera Partners, that I lead-has shifted to help nonprofits develop strategies to sustain themselves despite federal cuts in funding and to programs that once supported their work.
Non-profit organizations
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A mixed blessing': crowdfunding has changed the way we give, but is it fair and effective?

Within hours of the Bondi beach terror attack, the money had already begun to pour in. As images of the tragedy flooded social media, people from around the world donated tens of thousands of dollars to the victims, their families and first responders. Passing the hat around the neighbourhood or the local pub has always been a staple response in times of crisis. But today, that instinct to open your wallet has been exponentially supercharged via a digital simulacrum: online crowdfunding platforms.
Fundraising
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 months ago

Does Personal Investment Hurt Fundraising? | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

I've seen this before-many times, in fact. What you're describing is not unheard of in the nonprofit sector. Founder energy is one of the most powerful forces driving new missions into the world. It can also be one of the riskiest. Many organizations, especially those built from lived experience, passion, and necessity, begin with little more than a vision, a problem to solve.
Fundraising
Fundraising
fromFast Company
1 month ago

AI is helping funders evaluate more ideas more fairly

AI can automate objective, repetitive grant-screening tasks so human reviewers can focus judgement on high-potential applications, improving review efficiency, fairness, and scale without sacrificing rigor.
Fundraising
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Pinterest fundraiser drives $11bn valuation - making it the joint fifth largest start-up in the world

Pinterest raised $367m and is valued at $11bn after its latest fundraising round.
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Feeding the need: How to keep giving in 2026

While there are still January holidays on the horizon for Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims, today is the 12th of Christmas - and then the holly-jolly season will be quickly wrapped and done. But looming end of the winter holidays doesn't mean that you have to give up the spirit of giving. In fact, why not make it a new year's resolution to keep donating all year long? Food insecurity, unfortunately, doesn't stop, and nonprofit organizations tend to see a drop in donations at the beginning of the year.
Fundraising
Fundraising
fromHowStuffWorks
2 months ago

Looking for a Search Engine That Donates to Charity? Here Are 10

Charitable search engines redirect a portion of ad revenue to nonprofits, turning everyday searches into donations for causes like climate action, education, and hunger relief.
Fundraising
fromTNW | Investors-Funding
2 months ago

BizzyNow opens Mamacrowd equity round

BizzyNow transforms spontaneous co-located professional downtime into structured 30–90 minute micro-meetings using geolocation, AI, and LinkedIn while raising €150k–€400k on Mamacrowd.
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