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Are corporations making good on their racial equity pledges?

Candid

Last summer , the murder of George Floyd and the global racial justice movement brought issues of racial inequity and injustice to the forefront. A s of July 2020, we’d identified racial e quity grants and pledges worth $4.2 What are corporate pledges? . billion ; since then , the total has more than tripled.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

Urgent medical care was a challenge with hospitals already overrun with COVID-19 patients. Navigating the challenges of the pandemic was a crash course in managing multiple disasters at one time. The large-scale global response to the pandemic, amid other concurrent crises, demonstrated that all funders are, indeed, disaster funders.

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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

Classy

Each year, individuals worldwide take the opportunity to do better for our planet with actions such as planting trees, cleaning local communities, and raising awareness for environmental causes through peer-to-peer fundraising pages. The global COVID-19 pandemic didn’t slow the momentum one bit. The six largest banks in the U.S.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

Saleforce Nonprofit

Today, largely thanks to the work of Greenpeace , WWF , and others, it is recognised as the defining challenge of the century. Apply Pressure to Limit Global Warming to 1.5 In the past, the climate crisis was mainly the concern of environment and conservation organisations. Learner juggling caretaking with school work.

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31 Ideas for Online Fundraising for Nonprofits

Neon CRM

This can help you engage a wider global audience while breaking down geographic barriers. Online auctions: Auction off donated items or organization merchandise using a video platform to encourage global participation. You may be hesitant to go this path because, in the past, it was a pretty expensive undertaking.

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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global.

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