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The Future of Funding: Nonprofit Grant Management Software Trends

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes.

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Demographics via Candid: A data-driven approach to encourage equitable funding practices

Candid

Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices. Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid. Partnering to advance equitable funding practices.

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How to Show Donors the Impact of Their Donations to Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. There’s a good reason why an iconic nonprofit like the World Wildlife Fund sends stickers and a stuffed animal to donors who sign up to adopt a tiger, a giraffe, or another animal.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

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These include disparities in funding allocation, lack of representation and diversity among leadership, and a tendency to prioritize short-term outcomes over long-term systemic change. This may involve conducting equity audits , adopting anti-racist policies and practices, and actively working to dismantle barriers to access and opportunity.

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Dugan and Cilente Skendall noted that, while community impact is difficult to measure, the sector needs to follow these young people’s lead in valuing reciprocity as it works to center communities. The Allstate Foundation not only provides resources directly to youth-led service initiatives but also involves youth in funding decisions.

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How can nonprofits adopt social enterprise strategies to create sustainable revenue streams?

ASU Lodestar Center

Organizations that rely on donations and grants for funding are being forced to look at their revenue portfolios and determine whether their revenue streams will be sustainable in the foreseeable future. Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues.

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Climate Justice in the field: An interview with the Donors of Color Network

Candid

In this blog, we will share his insights on how this initiative is growing support for groups that have historically lacked access to funding. Aligning funding with values The Donors of Color Network was established “to shift the center of gravity in philanthropy toward racial and economic justice.”

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