Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023.  Philanthropy back to the drawing board: Shaping a Future Agenda , by Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea)  In the face of ever evolving and mounting crises, this book by Rien van Gendt urges philanthropy to stop looking to the past for answers.

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Resource Mississippi Participatory New York 119

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the preserve of large foundations and mega-donors, impact investing is growing in popularity, including among women and younger generations. Of course, whether we’re writing checks to local charities, endowing a scholarship at our alma mater, or establishing a family foundation, we’re investing for impact. In 2023 alone, U.S.

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System Impact Change Foundation 98

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. The lack of inclusion and equity in philanthropy. The origins of some foundations’ wealth, which in some cases includes slavery and other forms of exploitation.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Philanthropy loves “new” things. Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public. A History of Knowledge Work in Philanthropy Knowledge building and philanthropy have a long past.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 69

Candid

MARCH 13, 2024

One of our major research initiatives over the last two years has focused on Black experiences and Black leadership. We knew we couldn’t do this research alone and have been thrilled to partner with ABFE —an organization with 50-plus years of organizing, advocating, and strategizing on behalf of Black people inside and outside philanthropy.

Leadership 52

Leadership Experiment Social United States 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2019

The reports listed below are a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. nonprofit research. Published by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good. * Published by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good. Published by the Giving USA Foundation.

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Report Professional Marketing NGO 230

Qgiv

JULY 8, 2022

On Tuesday, June 21, Giving USA released The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2021. Giving by individuals, foundations, and corporations all increased in 2021. The next largest portion of total giving is giving by foundations, which grew by 3.4% to total 19% of giving. to total 19% of giving. About Alford Group.

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Philanthropy Report Giving Indiana 98

Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In our eighth annual research report, Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2021: Data to Drive Decisions , developed in partnership with Candid , we dive into how philanthropy and other donors supported natural hazards, severe weather events and complex humanitarian emergencies in 2019. . billion. .

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Disaster Philanthropy Data Bahamas 59

Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

If you’ve ever tried to research this, you know it’s a challenge! How much you can find out about individual donors depends on how much information a nonprofit or donor is willing to make public. You can find this information in the “Who’s Who” section of the grantmaker profile on Foundation Directory. But don’t get discouraged.

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Donation Grant Foundation Newsletter 122

sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

AI tools enable major gift officers to do more with their time by minimizing administrative tasks, helping with research, and drafting communications. How AI Supports Each Stage of the Major Donor Funnel AI can help fundraisers minimize manual work at each stage of the funnel while using data and research to make data-informed suggestions.

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Gift Game Philanthropy Fundraising 83

Candid

JULY 27, 2023

This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom. private and community foundations. And we would narrow the focus to 1,000 of the largest private and community foundations. funders, and public foundations (aka grantmaking public charities).

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Grant Data Pledge Analysis 98

Candid

AUGUST 9, 2023

At Candid, it means thinking about how we can get more data into the hands of academic researchers for the betterment of the social sector. Candid has long worked with academic researchers to create custom data sets to answer specific research questions, a service we continue to offer. nonprofits. nonprofits.

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Data St. Louis Missouri Poll 98

Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

foundations (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Ford Foundation , and Hewlett Foundation ) share such data with Candid. Other public information. In fact, only a small number of grants are web-scraped from other public sources. based foundations. Many of the largest U.S. institutions.

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Grant Data Pledge Foundation 111

Candid

MAY 18, 2022

Specifically, they saw the exhibition Giving in America , which includes one of the first copies of Foundation Directory. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Can you tell us about the Foundation Directory book ? We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D., the David M.

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History America Giving Museum 98

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed, according to a press release by the MacArthur Foundation.

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Local Pledge News Support 102

Candid

JULY 27, 2022

foundations’ giving. The data from these various sources are harmonized, and each record is coded according to Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System, either by Candid staff, our machine learning model, or a combination of both. . It takes more than two years to collect comprehensive data about U.S.

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Data Ukraine Pledge Grant 98

Candid

MAY 4, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has shined a spotlight on the value of philanthropy and, for this reason, many foundation representatives believe society at large will expect philanthropy to address global distress in the future. Here we share some top-level takeaways from our research. . in the DRC and 1.4%

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Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

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. GuideStar has helped me find information for many research assignments. Philanthropy News Digest .

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Student Free New York City San Francisco 119

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

So when I learned about Candid’s Demographics via Candid —an initiative that allows nonprofit organizations to share demographic information on their Candid nonprofit profile , where funders, donors, and researchers could easily access it—I was both intrigued and skeptical. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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Data Demographics Aggregator Participatory 98

Candid

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Knight Foundation ’s progress and commitment to identify diverse-owned asset managers when investing our endowment. Starting in 2017, we began publishing research on the state of diversity in the asset management industry. Others asked us to also research how the charitable sector overall was doing in this critical area.

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Foundation Management Tulsa Examples 45

Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

Along with many funders incorporating trust-based philanthropy practices and principles, this growing trend may affect giving to nonprofits and impact the way nonprofits are asked to share organizational information with funders. After all, local public librarians know where to find the most useful information and are happy to help!

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Trend Demographics Philanthropy Generation 98

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Grantmaking foundations have the financial resources that nonprofit organizations need to accomplish their work. Nonprofit organizations are doing the work essential to further the grantmaking foundation’s mission. Grantmaking practices are important to grantmaking foundations. Clearly define the foundation’s mission.

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Adopt Foundation Practice Support 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today that Lucy Bernholz will join the Foundation as a Visiting Scholar effective fall 2013 and through 2014. com. In 2011, Bernholz sold her consulting firm, Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. Philanthropy'

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Foundation Philanthropy Literacy Law 100

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

Imagine a world in which philanthropy professionals are focused on improving their practices to transform philanthropy through centering communities, lightening the burden on nonprofit organizations, and holding themselves accountable to their values. Candid helps us to be transparent and accountable to our community,” Dickenson said.

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Collaboration Data Demographics Massachusetts 52

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Find the first installment of this series, Developing a Grant Project here , and the second installment, Researching Funders Part One – Government here. Foundations, nonprofits, businesses and corporations, clubs, and professional and trade associations are all examples of private grant sources. Foundations.

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Foundation Research Grant Database 60

Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

The Trust-Based Philanthropy Project states: “the work of nonprofits is long-term and unpredictable. We took a similar approach for our research agenda, where we leaned into fundraising for topics important to the sector at large. Studies show that nonprofits need flexible dollars to succeed.

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Impact Support Demographics Grant 111

Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Foundation funding for workers’ rights i. Instead, they rely on the same kinds of funding streams as traditional community-based nonprofits: individual donations, volunteers, and support from institutional philanthropy. Source: Foundation 1000. Source: Foundation 1000. Kellogg Foundation MI $31,651,278 8.2%

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District of Columbia New York New York City California 105

Candid

JUNE 12, 2023

Because of this, we have been considering 990 data for fiscal years 2020 onward “incomplete” i ; research leveraging 990 data for years 2020 and on required the caveat that data collection was ongoing. Eager for information, many researchers turned to surveys, leading to sector-wide survey fatigue and survey response rates as low as 1%.

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Files Data Survey Profile 111

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values.

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Grant Analysis Application Contact 111

Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? – – Too Greedy?

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Grant Homeless Proposal Foundation 113

Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2024

This jives with my own anecdotal research talking with nonprofits who receive these gifts. Donor wants professional investment or advisor services to assure their philanthropy has the most impact possible. Let your community foundation know you exist and you’d love to work with them to further their DAF donors’ interests.

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Donor Fund Giving Sponsor 93

Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had recently joined Madison House Autism Foundation as the Director of the Autism After 21 Utah Project (AA21 Utah). I have learned how to deep dive into Foundation Directory, align our grant asks with funders’ typical award amounts, and use Candid Learning’s sample letters of inquiry (LOIs).

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Utah Project Lesson Fundraising 105

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only 10% of philanthropic foundations have a website to communicate their work. Here at Candid, we’ve been tracking those statistics for the last 12 years as part of our GlassPockets initiative to champion greater transparency in philanthropy. Information about the people leading the foundation.

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Communication Oregon Grant Portland 87

Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

A June 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center found that approximately one out of every three AAPI individuals surveyed reported having been subject to racial slurs/jokes since the beginning of the pandemic, and one out of four feared someone might threaten or physically attack them. Foundation funding trends for AAPI communities.

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Pledge United States Foundation Grant 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It is a collaboration between sparks & honey , a business strategy firm and the Morgridge Family Foundation. The 135-page report is organized by five key consumer trends that will influence giving, summarizes a lot of key data, research and trends. .

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Retention Giving Donor Collaboration 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road. In other words, philanthropy means the love of mankind.

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Children Philanthropy Japan China 78