NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Philanthropy Roundtable has opened nominations for its 2023 Simon-DeVos Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. Each year, the Prize honors a living philanthropist who has shown exemplary leadership through charitable giving with a $200,000 award that is payable to the winner’s charitable organization of choice. 

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

In 2020, the philanthropic sector started conversations about how philanthropy can better support Black-led organizations and the Black community. According to the 2020 Smithsonian Magazine article, The Storied History of Giving in America , the practice of philanthropy can reflect and reinforce inequity.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Where do I look to find grants for my nonprofit?” Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting! Also, getting a grant means a funder values your nonprofit and trusts you’ll put their money to good use. A Grant is What We Need (or is it?) Plus, grants are never guaranteed from year to year.

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2022

We have identified 208 pledges and grants for Ukraine relief. This includes 34 pledges worth $241,773,200 and 174 grants worth $343,561,933 as of March 8. The United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan account for 91% of total grant funding for Ukraine to date. Giving by funder type.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

At Candid, grants data from 990s flows into tools such as Foundation Directory , public dashboards that provide insights into philanthropy in different regions across the U.S., Sourcing grants data from 990s isn’t ideal to begin with—grant descriptions from filings are often sparse, and sometimes grants lists are missing entirely.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. Notes: “All transactions” are limited to those awarded by U.S.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Chief Philanthropy Officer. Kimberly Mitchell.

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Candid

JUNE 29, 2023

philanthropy? The Foundation Giving Forecast Survey provides timely estimates and helps inform the Giving USA annual report on philanthropy. This 3% increase in grant dollars is much lower than the 12% annual increase in 2021 and 24% increase in 2020 (all figures are unadjusted for inflation). How did these factors affect U.S.

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Foundation Change Giving Survey 105

Candid

APRIL 25, 2024

In its first round of funding, announced in July 2023, it awarded grants to 35 organizations serving 45 countries to help fact-checking organizations scale or upgrade their online presence. Other funding initiatives to combat misinformation include the Global Fact Check Fund at the Poynter Institute.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In the wake of COVID-19 and movements for racial equity, foundations also committed to making grants as unrestricted and flexible as possible. i This year, we asked survey respondents to share how much of their total giving in fiscal year end 2021 and 2022 was awarded as general operating support. Every year, Candid surveys large U.S.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Her third round of grants in less than a year, Scott wrote that grant recipients were “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.” Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) .

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

Here are a few highlights of what we have learned in the past month: Candid has identified 310 grants worth $143.9 Various Red Cross federations ( American Red Cross , Turkish Red Crescent , and Syrian Arab Red Crescent ) have received 47 grants worth $19.2 million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. philanthropy,?analyzing?funding But recovery can take years, and strategic disaster philanthropy requires taking the long view. .

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Grant Research Tip: As you search beyond this list for potential funders, many foundations will state that they do not accept unsolicited requests for funding. Visit Grantli to learn exactly how I do my grant research and how your organization can find more appropriate funders and funding opportunities. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . contacted us with two primary concerns about the way the data was presented: the distinction between racial equity and racial justice funding, and the mixing of grants and pledges. service delivery, research, advocacy).

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2023

Every year, Candid processes data on nearly two million organizations and more than three million grants. All this work would be significantly more difficult if it weren’t for Candid’s taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (or PCS). cash grants, program-related investments); and organization type.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Much has been written about the extraordinary grant making of businesswomen, MacKenzie Scott. My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. Many of the nonprofits that received an award had a strong pre-existing relationship. Yet for many other nonprofits the award came ‘without warning.’

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Making searching for funders and grants fast and easy. million nonprofits worldwide.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Rethinking Risk with Trust-Based Philanthropy The ideas behind Trust-Based Philanthropy have been simmering for a while, but a culmination of events over the past few years makes now the time for them to gain some traction. With Trust-Based Philanthropy, you focus on truly understanding the needs of the nonprofits you work with.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We hear about Trust-Based Philanthropy and having a more grantee-centered approach to grantmaking. Empathy I have had the honor of being both a grant researcher/writer/steward and a re-grantor. I often wonder what proportion of the folks working in philanthropy have had the privilege of also working in a nonprofit, and vice versa.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. Candid also offers a wide variety of borrowable e-books by topic: DEI, management, fundraising, grant writing, advocacy, etc.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2022

According to Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System , there are over 318K religion-focused 501(c)(3)s and over 302K human services 501(c)(3)s (making up 18% and 17% of public charities, respectively). [1] One in five foundation grant dollars goes toward general operating support. [2]. nonprofits (or 1.4 million out of 1.8

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I quickly became responsible for identifying potential funding opportunities, grant-writing, stewardship efforts, and reporting to funders. I’d taken it for granted that these resources were just there. I have also become more familiar with the funding world through Candid’s Philanthropy News Digest. .

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Utah Project Lesson Fundraising 105

Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

In the meantime, individuals, governments, and private philanthropy fund relief on the ground, trying to keep up with displacement and need on a massive scale. We have identified 540 grants worth $667,728,963 and 122 pledges worth $653,512,350 as of April 1. Care and protection of children account for 26% of grant dollars.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

Talk to anyone associated with a nonprofit organization, and they will tell you that there isn't enough grant money. Yet according to The Philanthropy Outlook by Marts & Lundy, giving by foundations is predicted to increase by 5.9 Be aware that grant funding is available. percent in 2017 and by 6.0 percent in 2018.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

Like independent foundations, several commented that although total grant amounts increased, their payout remained the same or decreased due to growth in assets.? . We had a large influx of government funding in 2020 and 2021, which we granted out in those years. The importance of multi-year grants to build nonprofit capacity” .

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Foundation Giving Change Survey 105

The NonProfit Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

10 post on publishing platform Medium , Scott announced another round of grants to nonprofits, however, this time the post was titled, “No Dollar Signs This Time,” and did not include a breakdown of organizations or grant amounts. We’re used to processing large grants and donations, so often aligned with federal guidelines,” she said.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

The 2014 Award Winner Whenever we talk about the Lifetime Achievement Award , we always remind people that it is not an award signifying the "end" of a career or the close of a legacy of service to this sector. 14ntc award lifetime achievement award lynn labieniec nten' and Riverside Software Inc.,

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies commits $31 million to healthy cities program. August 18, 2021 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has announced that it awarded a record $30 million during fiscal year 2020-21 in support of programs serving vulnerable communities across the Los Angeles region. August 19, 2021.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

iii As the size of the grantmaker rises–as measured by grant dollars awarded or the total number of full- and part-time staff)–so does the ratio. While these new CEOs represent a relatively small sample (15), their organizations vary in size, both in terms of dollars granted and total staff.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing excellence in nonprofit management. In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Over the course of a three-year grant , Champions implement ambitious, goal-oriented projects and participate in advocacy campaigns aimed at changing local and national policies that hinder equal access to education. To help keep girls learning, Malala Fund has awarded new grant funding to Champions leading pandemic response initiatives.

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