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Candid’s DEI commitment, today, and for the future 

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Candid’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) commitment statement provides general guidelines and insights as to how the organization supports, prioritizes, and maintains an inclusive work environment that fosters a sense of belonging and trust. We incorporate equity, inclusion, and respect for diverse perspectives in all our work.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”. But what is it?

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . By definition, leanly staffed funders are staffed by just one person or a few people. Rotate hosting and facilitation.

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Tips for Using a Peer-to-Peer Platform and Facebook Together

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Maybe your nonprofit is still redefining their goals in light of changing social and professional environments. However, there is overlap in these definitions as successful peer-to-peer fundraising is driven by social actions which are often performed on social media platforms. . Did you hit or miss the mark in 2021?

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Practitioners are tasked with understanding how their assumptions or mindsets about objectivity, rigor and evidence; resources; roles; definitions, perceptions, and decisions; relationships; and productivity and accountability all may bias their MEL approaches. Identify and challenge usual power relationships.

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Taking Action: Fundraising Trends And Best Practices From Bloomerang’s ‘Fundraising Planning and Climate Report’

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Stay agile and be ready to adapt your strategies as needed based on new information or developments in the fundraising environment. My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Sometimes we definitively solve our fundraising dilemmas, but more commonly we trade them for better ones. And that’s fine.

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