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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

Does negativity and alarm really raise funds?” —John, CEO of a civic education nonprofit Dear John, This is a top-of-mind question for many fundraising professionals. Or, like Feeding America, you can build donor preferences into your website , a smart fix. The post Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

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Protecting the right to give according to our values

Candid

philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Those concerns were borne out just a few months later in the form of a lawsuit brought by the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER)—led by the same conservative activist who’d brought the higher education case—against the Fearless Fund and its Fearless Foundation. Following the U.S.

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5 Corporate Philanthropy Examples to Inspire Your CSR Strategy

Givinga

To help you build your CSR strategy, we’ve gathered five corporate philanthropy examples that you can use for inspiration. The campaign donated a meal’s worth of money to food banks every time someone liked their Facebook page, combining philanthropy with social media marketing and brand awareness. This year, Kraft Heinz gave $2.5

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

As the largest gathering of Black professionals in philanthropy, there were so many powerful sessions, poignant perspectives, spaces for healing, and moments of Black joy at Harambee. Fittingly, the university hosted the session “A Report on Philanthropic Funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.”

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AI at Candid: Powering technology to support the sector’s lasting success

Candid

Candid uses machine learning to automatically tag new grants, request for proposals (RFPs), and mission statements to our Philanthropy Classification System (PCS) taxonomy—or our way of organizing and enriching data to make it usable. Facilitating intelligent funding connections (coming soon.)

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The Myth of Risk: Fear Not the Dragons, Funders

sgEngage

In a recent study issued by The Urban Institute’s Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy , we continue to see lags in grant size for only the nonprofits with those nontraditional descriptors. If your foundation has established risk assessments and begins funding discussions with a “low-risk” tolerance, is that about you or the nonprofits?

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Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy – Guest Post by Melinda T. A recent study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) finds that 99 percent of nonprofit organizations collect feedback from the people they seek to help.

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