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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. What is the Foundation 1000? In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. private and community foundations. i Even though the Foundation 1000 makes up only about 1% of U.S.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

CAF America launched the IGS last year around the shared belief that international philanthropy can, and should be, a powerful force in our effort to address the world’s most pressing issues. This was a very timely panel as we have all felt the momentum build behind philanthropy for the SDGs. The Key to Cross-Sector Partnerships.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the truth is that many of the basic building blocks cited above – IP, HTML, URLs, EINs that enable today’s information exchanges – are frequently set, revised, and administered in a top-down fashion, by government or industry consortia. During her talk at GEO, Fulton made an interesting observation about this era.

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Revitalizing Global Partnerships to Further the Sustainable Development Goals

Connection Cafe

This session also specifically showed the role that foundations do, and will continue to, play in addressing the SDGs. Heather Grady, Vice President of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, introduced the SDG Philanthropy Platform to the room. The Power of Partnerships. Everyone has a role to play.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance. Even in the U.S., There are two driving factors.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. Many of these institutions have foundations, which are separate 501(c)(3) entities that exist to raise and/or manage private support for a single institution or system of institutions. has awarded over $3.5 When we use this same code on Candid’s GuideStar, it returns 1,192 organizations.

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