Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

Part of my work at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) involves monitoring philanthropic giving in response to disasters through our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy: Data to Drive Decisions (SODP) report. That distinction previously belonged to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, after Hurricane Harvey.)

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 21, 2020

I was recently contacted by Julianne Buck, executive director of the Community Foundation of Grundy County about the Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts I send. Guest Post by Julianne Buck of the Community Foundation of Grundy County. I run a community foundation and it’s difficult to briefly explain what we do. Julianne Buck.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Elsewhere, large philanthropic organizations such as the MacArthur Foundation have provided unrestricted grants to organizations doing reparations work. The Bush Foundation, based in Minneapolis, also committed $100 million in 2021 to atone for its ties to slavery and land theft.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 4, 2023

By Drew Lindsay THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record Despite forecasts of doom at the start of Covid, many nonprofits emerged fiscally stronger than before, thanks in part to government and foundation emergency relief as well as a surge in individual giving.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. What makes this moment perhaps the most notable time in the history of family philanthropy is that it is a time of crucial choices—with huge potential consequences and opportunities.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

With so much fuel for change and so much money to spend, what’s coming up short in philanthropy, and what needs to be done? Can’t Buy Your Way to Liberation Of course, leaders in social justice philanthropy would be ill-advised to act as if writing checks is enough. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in?

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2020, iF , A Foundation for Radical Possibility (then the Consumer Health Foundation) hosted a retreat with our board and staff. As an organization, we decided to take a stance in support of reparations for Black people, formally acknowledging the debt Black people are owed from our government and public institutions.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 8, 2023

By Drew Lindsay Pressures spun up from Covid are cutting into revenue, as foundation and government funding shrinks and a possible recession looms.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This article is the third installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. Public lands across the United States are being mismanaged, whether by the federal government or private interests, in ways that mirror the relationship these powers have had with Native people for centuries. Imagining a Transformative Future.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

studio on pexels.com Discussions of trust-based philanthropy have gained increased prominence over the years, but how can philanthropy operate as an effective part of social justice movements—beyond just providing grants to movement nonprofits? For more than a half-century, the foundation funded settlement houses and social services.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Especially as philanthropy has been shifting its focus from individual grants and programs to investing in broader systemic change, addressing confirmation bias becomes all the more urgent: the tools, practices, and cultures for evaluating evidence and learning have not kept pace with this shifting scale.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By Darren Isom , Cora Daniels & Lyell Sakaue Each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, leaders of color working in philanthropy across the United States gather to strategize, to vision, and to be in community with one another on an island where Black families have been vacationing since the 1800s.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As one example, in early 2023, Brian Impact Foundation , which focuses on big-bet philanthropy , donated a total of 12.6 The foundation has also started a capacity-development program for nonprofits in collaboration with Root Impact , an intermediate support organization. billion won (about $9.7

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 18, 2024

We put forward three recommendations to help realize this goal of “ relational philanthropy ”: 1) commitment to fostering meaningful relationships centered on “we” vs “us/them”; 2) instituting practices that promote shared learning and continuous improvement; and 3) developing a standard of conduct for philanthropy.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

private and community foundations to understand recent giving trends and forecast where giving is headed. [ Giving increased in FYE 2021 for most foundations compared to 2020, though payout was not as likely to increase. . The average payout by independent foundations in FYE 2021 was 6.9%, and the median and mode were 5%. .

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: Rod Long on unsplash.com A recent report on climate justice funding finds that many foundation leaders are of two minds when it comes to the climate crisis—the crisis is “urgent” yet easily put off for another day. How many of those 29 leaders expect their foundations to begin acting on the “extremely urgent” crisis?

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 11, 2011

He explained he had recently seen a cause marketing promotion between the Arthritis Foundation and Massage Envy and thought it was a great partnership. Massage Envy customers, Arthritis sufferers and their supporters would benefit from the therapeutic touch of massage and the Arthritis Foundation would reap a donation.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000? In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. private and community foundations. i Even though the Foundation 1000 makes up only about 1% of U.S.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2022

Governments have also directed hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance for Ukraine. We have been tracking philanthropy’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Corporations account for 55% of the total dollar value of grants awarded; foundations and public charities 40%; and high-net-worth individuals for 5%.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The profits of those newspapers helped build the wealth behind several modern-day charitable foundations, notably the William S. Abell Foundation, created by the great-grandson of the Sun ’s founder; and the Meyer Foundation, named for the former owner of the Post. Reparative work…has been largely ignored by philanthropy.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

But when we look at philanthropy in the US and Europe, the list of private foundations that have a primary focus on SME growth is extremely small, just over a dozen. Why is philanthropy still hesitant? Since then that allocation has increased to 3 percent.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 20, 2023

But the story was not the same for global philanthropy, which remained relatively robust in 2020, despite the pandemic. That’s one finding from a new report based on an index developed by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , dubbed the Global Philanthropy Tracker. “We We know very little about how much.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

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Candid

JUNE 11, 2021

Many nonprofit leaders say that increased financial support from funders and the government helped their organizations fare better through 2020 than originally anticipated, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At the Marguerite Casey Foundation, we believe this moment provides an opening for movements to shift public dollars to support the public goods our nation so desperately needs and to ensure that our dollars, in the public sector, are used to realize our dreams. Philanthropy has had a complicated relationship with the government.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 18, 2023

Image Credit: Ankush (Yogletics) on pexels.com Philanthropy should fund climate mitigation in rural communities like lives depend on it—because they do. Late last month, a long-track tornado tore through Mississippi and Alabama, killing 26 people and decimating the entire town of Rolling Fork, MS. percent ($9.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the Giving USA 2022 Report , giving by foundations to nonprofit organizations grew by 3.4% Foundation grants now represent 19% of total giving to nonprofits – the largest share on record. Candid offers a searchable database of foundations and grants, grants for individuals, and Requests for Proposals published by funders.

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Ann Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

After all, to build up your organization, you first need a solid foundation! These guidelines govern how your team members handle your organization’s funding as they perform their daily tasks. Corporate philanthropy: Matching gifts, volunteer grants, sponsorships. Grants: Government grants, foundation grants, marketing grants.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

So, what can philanthropy leaders do to support your CEO, making them more valuable to fundraising efforts and extending needed tenure. Being bold means you have to “sell” the ROI of the CEO’s time in philanthropy relationship building, the CEO’s critical value with larger donors, and respectfully push for more access to a CEO.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Philanthropy can play a crucial role in supporting underserved and marginalized communities in their rebuilding process. Alongside that, successful philanthropy also requires a long-term commitment—continuing the work for months and often years to make a real and lasting difference. Be there for the long hall.

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Affnetz

JULY 10, 2023

Short answer – philanthropy from individuals, foundation grants, government grants, events, earned revenue, membership dues, social entrepreneurship, investments (endowments), and probably a few more things! Philanthropy is almost essential for Nonprofits. What pays for these budgets? Let’s unpack!

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Those expectations were based in part on the 63% of households in a 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation study that said medical debt had forced them to reduce expenditures on food and clothing and 48% that said medical debt had caused them to deplete all or most of their savings.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 29, 2023

The report reveals valuable insights for philanthropy to fortify and sustain HBCUs and their futures. For instance, the average Ivy League school received 178 times more foundation funding than the average HBCU. Philanthropy has its own legacies of slavery with which to make amends.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. Walton…and individual family foundations have directed tens of millions of dollars to support journalists, newsrooms, and journalism organizations.

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Boardsource

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These words come from BoardSource’s new way of framing the role of nonprofit governing boards.

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Candid

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The need to center performance over prestige According to Altrata’s Ultra High Net Worth Philanthropy 2024 report, “[a]lmost 20% of UHNW individuals have a private foundation. Strategic, data-driven storytelling can create lasting emotional connections and visibility beyond traditional philanthropy.

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