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How Guarantees Can Advance Community Development and Racial Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Charlota Blunarova on unsplash.com Private foundations are best known for their grantmaking. However, each year, foundations nationwide invest hundreds of billions, often with the simple goal of maximizing financial returns to fund future grants. At the most basic level, a guarantee is akin to automobile insurance.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Do lead naming gifts actually stimulate high-level philanthropy from other donors and is that what motivates HNWIs to make such charitable contributions? My research finds otherwise and implicates current legal constructs and fundraising practices that continue to privilege the self-interests of donors over beneficiaries and society.

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Asking For A Legacy Gift: 10 Practical Steps To Get Started

Bloomerang

More extensive research (that can be gleaned by engaging a professional prospect research service) would include finding out what they’ve given to other nonprofits and if they have a donor-advised fund or family foundation. They may be more receptive to conversations about furthering their charitable legacy. (In