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Investing in capacity building: The vital role of general operating support for BIPOC-led nonprofits

Candid

Foundation for Women’s report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less , as of 2017, the median foundation grant awarded to “organizations by and for women and girls of color” was $15,000. Not having a traditional operating structure: Smaller BIPOC-led organizations are creative by necessity, given resource constraints.

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

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They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Look for ways to simplify your language and your structure to make your question easier to read and answer. Would this question be better asked in a follow-up interview or post-award communication?

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. philanthropy,?analyzing?funding But recovery can take years, and strategic disaster philanthropy requires taking the long view. .

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). MacArthur Foundation and an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We reflected. We adapted.

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

Bloomerang

The data is available, and we know dire predictions of the death of philanthropy early in the pandemic have been disproved. has hovered around 2% of GDP ever since it began being measured post W.W.II. And projections from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis show it’s likely to happen again.

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Amplifying Female Voices: Strategies for Equitable and Inclusive Grantmaking

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As a follow-up to the Women in Philanthropy Institute’s 2023 Symposium, hosted by the Indiana University Lilly Foundation School of Philanthropy, we gathered four dynamic grantmakers to discuss how they are doing the work to amplify female voices, especially women, girls, and femmes of color, in philanthropy. million to date.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

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Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Talent attraction. Enhanced community impact. DEI initiatives.

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