Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Working with trusted community partners with deep history and expertise on grantmaking for racial equity, we responded this month by updating our special issue site on funding for racial equity. We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . a major part of the?recent

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

In the wake of their deaths, individuals, communities, and organizations have shown solidarity with words, actions, and millions of dollars pledged to end anti-Asian discrimination, violence, and hate. Corporate pledges in response to anti-Asian hate in 2021. The context of anti-Asian hate. history of interning Asian Americans ).

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

During similar global crises, humanity responded with generosity, donating money or time to help others. We all wanted to cry, show our pain, and offer a way to help. . Notre Dame received $1 billion pledged and more than $300 million raised in just a few days. Consider how your mission can help this critical connection.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. We also made the data publicly available through special issue pages about the war in Ukraine and coronavirus , where users can access the data, alongside news stories and additional resources. . foundations’ giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

Here’s why: It boosts the donations of almost any fundraising campaign, helping you to reach your goals. Since p2p fundraising is conducted online using social media, a peer-to-peer fundraising platform will not only help you run a p2p campaign effectively, it’ll also help you and your staff be more efficient.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 7, 2023

31st, we write with a few suggestions for your consideration to help board members maximize year-end giving. Or it could mean that you make a multiple-year pledge for each of the next three to five years. If you’d like our help with suggested talking points or a sample script, we’d be glad to provide that too.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 4, 2022

Here’s the good news—we can take action to help end ageism in the workplace. No matter your level at work, you can take action to ensure that you’re helping to create a more inclusive work environment. Rally against ageism and take the pledge below! Rally against ageism and take the pledge below! .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Individual pledge commitments or reports on pledged revenue by date, campaign, or program can be tracked easily. They only con working with them in the past has been a lack of responsiveness on the customer support side, as well as issues with integration from previous platforms. . 2) Bloomerang :: bloomerang.co.

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Candid

DECEMBER 17, 2021

million to help preserve affordable housing in Arlington County, Virginia, and Nashville, Tennessee. Giving Pledge announces 2021 signatories. A weekly update with the latest news from PND. Amazon to invest $161.5 million in preserving affordable housing. December 16, 2021. Amazon has announced commitments totaling $161.5

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Candid

AUGUST 11, 2022

We’re here to help you crack into the corporate giving options available to you. . Pro bono services are when a nonprofit gets help from experts at a corporation. . CSR includes corporate philanthropy, but also environmental issues, employee engagement, and corporate governance. . So how do you tap into these funds?

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amidst the constant stream of news updates, social media advocacy campaigns offer people a relevant way to make a difference on the issues they care about. The best time to drive action is when an issue is in the news or trending on Twitter. Break down larger issues into smaller pieces of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

Foodbanks, soup kitchens, and many other nonprofits that address the hunger issue are being hit by a triple whammy. That's why I'm taking the pledge to end hunger because if we all do a little bit - it can go a long way. To become a Champion, all you need to do is: Sign the Hunger Pledge. How This Can Help Your Community, Too.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

They believe in innovating when it comes to tackling complex issues like homelessness, reading proficiency, and poverty. What they did: Truist Partnered with the United Way of Forsyth County by pledging $5,000 their employees could decide how to spend to help stock the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

For example, DoNotPay , a legal services chatbot designed to challenge parking tickets and navigate small claims courts, faced criticism for potentially oversimplifying legal issues and providing inaccurate advice. For over 20 years, its hotline has provided advice and help to hundreds of thousands of people.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

We also convene conversations with historic perspectives about philanthropy’s impact across a wide spectrum of issues. We also always feature a selection of Giving Pledge letters in conversation with the objects in the thematic section. Giving in America opened on Giving Tuesday 2016. .

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Double the Donation

MARCH 28, 2021

It’s often tempting just to jump straight into the streets of your community and start helping people. Chances are yours is not the only organization working on a particular issue. If it does, this becomes a powerful communications tool that can help you garner financial and volunteer support. Yes, you read that right. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll provide some guidance to those who are ready to move beyond the board statement or public equity pledge to actively and intentionally implement Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and strategies into their consultant search process. . Silence is most often viewed as indifference and/or complicity.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Starting in 2020, Candid increased efforts to collect “real-time” data about grants and pledges sourced from the news, press releases, and funder websites. Since 2020, we’ve created and managed rapid response webpages where we capture and share out information and resources about a current issue or crisis as it unfolds.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

Every month, Barbara’s team had to do hours of detective work to find a missing pledge payment, or correct coding errors, or ask Alan’s team multiple times for reports on event sponsorship purchases. It’s like he doesn’t even care about helping my team do our job. The pledge payments? Why is this so hard?” Barbara asked me.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2021

To learn more about activating invoices for your organization, check out our help desk! You can now re-send the Pledge Donation Created email. We’ve fixed a couple of issues that were making auction pages display incorrectly in the IE browser. We’ve adjusted org-level navigation to reflect user permissions.

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sgEngage

JULY 28, 2023

Challenge gifts are issued only once a contingency, or “challenge,” has been achieved. Money-based challenge gifts will typically indicate an amount that is pledged, an amount that must be raised to complete the challenge, and a time allotment in which the nonprofit is expected to complete the challenge.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

At some point, that geography, that issue, or that population you care about is going to be affected by a disaster event.”. To find out more about a specific disaster event, follow CDP’s disaster profiles —which are summary snapshots of major disaster events: their impact, critical needs, and ways to help.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s your job to remind folks who’ve not yet renewed or fulfilled on their pledges that it’s time to do so. You can also create lists of SYBNTs (gave some year but not this), pledge reminders, and downgrades. You can organize this as a live or virtual phonathon and enlist your board and other volunteers to help. Don’t let them!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Pledges to reduce use or avoid a purchase decision can be built with any basic form tool and offer a way to promote a campaign that builds an email list with an evergreen ask. The added benefit is that the pledge helps align the person’s identity with your cause, increasing the chance of a later donation. Online quizzes.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you can help donors understand why your cause is a worthy one, then you are far more likely to succeed. But in our second example, the donor understands how their donation will be helping someone in need. Creating a detailed and interactive script can help ease the nerves of new callers and standardize your donor’s experience.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

To help nonprofit board and staff leaders address this challenge, I created a list of more than 100 fundraising tasks for nonprofit board members. Board members can practice telling the story of one person helped by the organization, or the story of how they came to be on the board. They simply need to be good storytellers.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tracking the status of your pledges and developing a follow-up method as deadlines approach is key. Best practice is to wait no longer than three days to issue a personalized thank you message. With a positive sense of urgency, there are potent ways you can incentivize follow through. Deadlines are amazing at inspiring action.

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Forum One

JUNE 17, 2021

Over the past year, we’ve seen many organizations pledge their commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Staff and external audiences alike have often called out that many of these pledges were simply lip service with no follow-through. Cultural issues of privilege and oppression are bigger than your organization.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. The organization uses donated Intuit Quickbooks for Nonprofits from TechSoup to track grants and automate payroll so that it can help more and more kids. Entering and tracking pledges.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2023

When they say “no,” you’ve received an invitation to help solve a problem: Why are they saying no? It can’t hurt to issue an invitation—even more than once. Let them know others have already given, and more are prepared to pledge. Folks say “no” for all sorts of reasons. It’s just not there yet. Ask them to take a tour.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Capital campaigns are intended to raise money for a specific project, issue, or program, or to meet an overall, designated fundraising goal. How does this initiative fit into your overall mission and help to accomplish it? Some organizations are either granted or pledge half of the funds prior to launching their capital campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue. More businesses pledged their support, blogs and magazines ran articles on the idea of Keep ‘Em Wet. Many activist nonprofits have used it to inspire people to raise awareness, change behavior, or other action.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There’s a plethora of seasonal themes to base your fundraisers around that can help you entice your supporters’ giving spirit into full bloom. Here’s a list of spring fundraising ideas to help you celebrate the season with your supporters: Spring fundraising ideas 1. Trash cleanup Spring cleaning shouldn’t be limited to homes!

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

In fact, 800 foundations signed a pledge to adopt more trust-based practices in order to move money more quickly and with fewer restrictions. How can we be more intentional about naming and alleviating power imbalances in our work and the issues we seek to address? So what can we do about this?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. It's powerful workflows are meant to help nonprofit fundraisers ditch spreadsheets once and for all, and track major gifts like never before. #7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

"With living costs soaring, many local families are struggling to makes ends meet, and nowhere can it be seen with more clarity than on the lengthening lists of people being helped by the local food pantry." " Hunger is not only local issue, but also a global one. I signed up. So, here's what else I did: 1.

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