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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support? To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. For grant seekers, the data shows who’s providing funds to address a crisis. With breaking news, it takes time for the full picture to emerge.

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5 Tips for Effective Healthcare Grantmaking

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By following these five best practices, you’ll create a more efficient healthcare grantmaking process where you can anticipate evolving community needs and be more agile in your funding. Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. One data point is interesting.

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Six things you may not know about the U.S. social sector

Candid

In aggregate, nonprofits rely more on earned income than donations. About 22% of foundations’ grant dollars go to funding general operating support, totaling $12.8 billion in funding. Overall, general support is the second-most-funded support strategy. billion dollars of foundation funding (34% of total funding).

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What we know about MacKenzie Scott’s 2020 grants

Candid

In a recent analysis , we looked at the characteristics of the December cohort, which totaled $4.2 The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. billion to 384 nonprofits. Grant size distribution.

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Are corporations making good on their racial equity pledges?

Candid

Based on our analysis, the answer is, it's (currently) impossible to know —but it’s important to get right. . Yet a closer look at th is funding shows that pledges — particularly those from corporate funders — account for nearly three-quarters of the dollars we’ve tracked. billion dollars. billion dollars. 3] .

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.