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The Top Charity Event Ideas to Know for 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Black tie galas and silent auctions will always be mainstays, but there are new and exciting trends in charity event ideas that can help keep donors interested. Five charity event trends to consider. Creating a VIP experience for supporters during charity-centered events has been a trend gaining traction over the past few years.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. Data collection focused on the largest 800 funders nationally plus the top 25 grantmakers in each state and Washington, D.C., private and community foundations.

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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

Candid

HBCUs lead the nation in conferring bachelor’s degrees to Black graduates who ultimately earn doctorate degrees. After my high school graduation, I recall sitting on a neighborhood “stoop” one hot summer evening with a group of childhood friends; all of us were on our way to various colleges. We were so excited!

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Usually the origins of these automatic, unconscious responses can be traced to childhood, where we learned them from caregivers. After interviewing a number of physicians, police chiefs, educators, and school principals and superintendents, I noticed a trend with a large volume of them self-identifying as servant leaders.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

Qgiv

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Following this trend, Meta has introduced Meta Verified. per month on the website.

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COVID-19 contributed to major education funding gap, report finds

Candid

An additional $59 billion a year in funding is needed to meet the United Nations’ goal of quality education for every child by 2030, a report from Theirworld finds. According to Theirworld, the coronavirus pandemic at its peak forced more than 1.6

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Cause Marketing or Cause Me To Puke Marketing? Interview with Scott Henderson

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing.

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