sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Philanthropy loves “new” things. Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

The Role of Trust-Based Philanthropy The growing interest in giving larger, unrestricted—and in many cases multi-year— commitments reflects a widening embrace of “trust-based philanthropy” (TBP) among select funders. Solicit and Act on Feedback: Philanthropy doesn’t have all the answers.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

By combining publicly available wealth screening data with the richness of first-party CRM data, advanced analytics and predictive AI can evaluate and qualify donors. The post Leveraging AI in Major Gift Fundraising: A Game-Changer in Philanthropy first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Earlier this week, I had the terrific opportunity to participate on a panel at the US launch event for “Philanthropy and Social Media”, a whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy and The Indigo Trust. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this blog, you’ll find a list of principles for optimizing people-powered philanthropy in a post-pandemic world. A few years ago LLS began evaluating our sustainability practices because we felt a moral obligation to help protect the planet. Stay Mission Centric. Embrace Your Donors’ Values.

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Philanthropy People Cancer Evaluation 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Last spring at the “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations ” meeting convened by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, practitioners from social media, measurement, evaluation, programs, communication, and philanthropy worked on a synthesis of these disciplines to address measurement. Technology!

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Philanthropy back to the drawing board: Shaping a Future Agenda , by Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea)  In the face of ever evolving and mounting crises, this book by Rien van Gendt urges philanthropy to stop looking to the past for answers. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023. 

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

With that in mind 35 influential leaders from across the nonprofit industry came together at the Growing Philanthropy Summit to develop an action-oriented agenda on growing philanthropy. 32 Sure Fire Ways to Grow Philanthropy in the U.S. Fund the development of a website to facilitate peer-to-peer evaluations of nonprofits.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

The practices of this relatively new form of philanthropy are still evolving. In a 2022 survey, nearly 70% of respondents cited building measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities as a critical area in which they would like to invest. Here we’ll focus on equitably measuring across a portfolio of grantees.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JULY 13, 2018

I’m doing a happy dance, because the Foundation Center ‘s GrantSpace blog has published my article on “The Power of Dialogue on Nonprofit Data and Evaluation.” This is a blog article about a blog article. ” Please feel free to read the article and give me your feedback!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Do you use it to inform your decisions, evaluate your outcomes, or improve your practices? It may also not align with the latest trends and best practices in philanthropy. Knowing what’s happening in philanthropy helps you understand the expectations of grantees based on the other funding opportunities they are applying for.

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Qgiv

MARCH 12, 2024

There are many ways a business can participate in corporate philanthropy to produce benefits for both the corporation and the nonprofits they partner with. Benefits of corporate giving programs Corporate giving program ideas Getting started with corporate philanthropy Corporate giving software What is corporate giving? Tax benefits.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. Factoring in the nonprofit organization’s size, capacity, and budget – making sure that the demand for data and evaluation is commensurate.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

What does this mean for grantmakers and philanthropy as a whole? Exploring the Growing Power of Women in Philanthropy The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) aims to increase understanding of women’s philanthropy through rigorous research and education, interpreting and sharing our insights broadly to improve philanthropy.

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Honduras Philanthropy Iran Michigan 77

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

In the very early days of AI at Candid, our grants auto-coding system, which predicts Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) codes from the text, exhibited signs of social biases. We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. What am I looking for with this question?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

While some may think corporate philanthropy means writing a check and calling it a day, many corporations seek multilayered, strategic partnerships with nonprofits that fall in line with their core business objectives. Understanding corporate motivations behind corporate philanthropy will help you structure a mutually successful partnership.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 8, 2021

It’s about checks and balances and evaluation. This means a self-assessment of your collective work as the board and a consistent evaluation of the Chief Executive Officer. It is not favoritism for some because of their social or professional influence and ability to cut a big check. Passion after all, is the icing on the cake!

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Service Philanthropy Delicious Nonprofit 103

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The State of Modern Philanthropy 2019 found that one-time donors who converted into recurring donors were a lot more likely to make another one-time gift on top of their recurring gift. The State of Modern Philanthropy 2020. download The State of Modern Philanthropy 2020. 184 days after engaging with a donation page.

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Trend Fundraising Virtual Haiti 261

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be. Questions are critical tools for good grantmaking.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies. Intersectional demographic data, vital to feminist philanthropy WFN is a deeply intersectional movement of funders fighting for policies and standards across lines of race, class, and gender.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My many years of experience collecting and analyzing data as an evaluator naturally lead me to ask: What has been the measurable impact of this important shift? At the 2022 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) conference, a few fellow evaluators and I discussed the findings of the AAPIP report Seeking to Soar.

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Data Support Demographics Evaluation 59

DonorPerfect

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Nathan Harris, Vickey Schwoeffermann, Vivien Trinh, Celia Ferrer The Community Philanthropy team at Oregon Food Bank recently transformed their approach to resourcing an end to hunger and hunger’s root causes. As individual staff and as a team, their performance is no longer evaluated based on the financial outcomes Read More ».

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Tiffany Kerns is the Executive Director of the Country Music Association Foundation and CMA’s Vice President of Industry Relations and Philanthropy. They studied the member experience and evaluated how to engage and communicate on a personal level. Even associations that boast celebrity members sometimes struggle.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Rethinking Risk with Trust-Based Philanthropy The ideas behind Trust-Based Philanthropy have been simmering for a while, but a culmination of events over the past few years makes now the time for them to gain some traction. With Trust-Based Philanthropy, you focus on truly understanding the needs of the nonprofits you work with.

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Trend Participatory Philanthropy Grant 71

Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2023

We partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy to conduct our Fundraising Planning and Climate Report: Outlook for 2023. Experts say a culture of philanthropy from leadership defines behavior. On a panel at AFP ICON 2023, Kishshana Palmer, Bloomerang Board Member and CEO of Kishshana & Co.,

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Studies Fundraising Philanthropy Culture 93

Candid

JULY 22, 2021

For example, several donor collaboratives housed at Borealis Philanthropy were individually supported, including the Black Led Movement Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, and the Spark Justice Fund. An analysis of organizations and projects funded against Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System validates her statement. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The report is chocked full of insights, but was particularly interested in their commentary on artificial intelligence for philanthropy and fundraising as Allison Fine and I have recently published our report, funded by the Gates Foundation, “ Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Evaluate how your organization’s and your community’s core values are being articulated and experienced in the stories you tell , in your interactions with the public, and in your communications with donors. Understanding their perceptions of your organization and what philanthropy means to them can help you take actions that build trust.

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Retention Donor Build Strategy 83

Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. Within the broader concept of racial equity, there is also philanthropy that promotes racial justice: grantmaking to address the?underlying underlying systems and structures that?generate

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Woodruff Foundation was the need to evaluate where the immediate response funding was going, and identify other areas where aid was needed and they could support. However, a study done by the Center of Disaster Philanthropy in 2014 found that 73% of total disaster funding targeted immediate response and relief efforts.

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Disaster Philanthropy Hurricane Houston 22

Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

This week the revolutionary data driven philanthropy of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation is featured and a call for beneficiary inclusion in Markets for Good goes out. Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered. Data and Philanthropy. Data Philanthropy: Where are we now.

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Africa Data Philanthropy Giving 47

sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

For example…” What was interesting is that after they made these types of statements, what they all went on to share about how they granted funds, vetted applications, organized their boards, and the process by which they evaluated their grantee partners was very, very similar. Creating a Connection Through Empathy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

The power and influence that flow from money, combined with the near absence of a negative feedback loop in philanthropy, result in potential manipulation of and control over nonprofit organizations,” Janice Pettey of Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy said. Evaluate to learn. Jessica Tudyk is the Program Officer at the Mary E.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Develop an evaluation and performance model. . This usually fails to evaluate the future needs of the organization and is c ommonly known as the Bubba Theory. . Not understanding philanthropy or the fundraising process . Philanthropy, not fundraising, will shift you and your board from feeling negative to feeling positive.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 28, 2010

More recently Godin spoke with the Chronicle of Philanthropy about Innovation, Failure and Why Non-profits should stop operating like businesses. My buddy Steve does a great job keeping us all on our toes by bubbling up useful data points for us to evaluate as we continue to figure out how to use the internet in the non-profit sector.

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Profit Business Stats Statistics 264

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The best performing organizations and their partners smartly evaluate short- and long-term opportunities to integrate, reapply, and scale.”. – Mohan Sivaloganathan , Chief Development Officer of ESS of NYC. Focus on both short-term and long-term ROI. Risk is necessary for the innovation required to solve social problems.

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