Author Archives: Visceral Dev Admin

A Conversation with Samip Mallick of the South Asian American Digital Archive

As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in humanities. They use technology to improve education and scholarship. And they find new ways to preserve stories, voices, and digital creations. In June 2020, NFF kicked off a project to support a cohort of digital humanities organizations by &hellip

Our Strategic Innovation Fund: How Unrestricted Funding Opened Up New Ways of Working with Community-Centered Nonprofits

In 2020, MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation provided substantial unrestricted grants to NFF – grants that seeded our Strategic Innovation Fund, a special pool of money we’re using to support strategically aligned projects. This post spotlights one of the ways we’re using the Strategic Innovation Fund: to help fund consulting engagements with BIPOC-led and &hellip

A Conversation with Mills Kelly of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities. They use technology to improve education and scholarship. And they find new ways to preserve stories, voices, and digital creations. In June 2020, NFF kicked off a project to support a cohort of digital humanities organizations &hellip

A Conversation with Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Humanities Commons

As technology continues to rapidly evolve, digital humanities organizations have been at the forefront of innovation in the humanities. They use technology to improve education and scholarship. And they find new ways to preserve stories, voices, and digital creations. In June 2020, NFF kicked off a project to support a cohort of digital humanities organizations &hellip

Denver Nonprofits Get an Interest-Free Boost

Originally published in Next City , January 12, 2022 No-interest loans can help nonprofits stabilize, explore new revenue sources, and become more sustainable. That’s why NFF partnered with The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, and Colorado Gives Foundation to support organizations providing critical services in Denver with zero-interest financing that they could apply toward any part of their operations. &hellip

BMe, Rising Together: A “Fam” of Black Nonprofit Leaders

It should come as no surprise that the organization founded by Trabian Shorters – who coined the term Asset-Framing to describe people by their aspirations instead of the challenges they face – is intentional about the language it uses. BMe’s members aren’t part of a network, they’re fam. They’re people first, nonprofit leaders second (or third).   BMe offers Black community leaders a space “to break &hellip