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Climate justice in the field: An interview with the Hive Fund 

Candid

With the climate crisis making headlines every day, the urgency of tackling this issue is clear. Watch this video to hear Rogers explain how funders can strengthen the impact of their climate justice funding efforts by “working in solidarity” with their grantees, and what that looks like. But it does not have to be that way.

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Top Do’s and Don’ts for Fundraising While Navigating the News Cycle

Media Cause

These critical factors take up space in your donors’ social media feeds, minds, and wallets, which impacts their generosity and the funds you are able to raise. If it does, contextualize the moment in your ongoing strategy, when appropriate, by making your messaging current and any ties to headlines prominent.

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Climate Justice in the field: An interview with the Donors of Color Network

Candid

Though the growing climate crisis makes headlines every day, its enormity and complexity can be overwhelming to donors who often struggle to know where to begin and how to devise equitable strategies to address its impacts. In this video, Dosunmu shares how funding data reveals whether or not climate philanthropy lives up to these values.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Two decades later, disaster recovery remains an essential part of wildfire funding. Climate change funding is increasing dramatically. That is no longer the case.

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Community foundations: Resilience in tough economic times 

Candid

At first glance, it would be easy to put a gloomy headline on the Council on Foundations ’ most recent CF Insights field survey tracking trends in community foundations’ 2022 asset growth, giving, and the activity of donor-advised funds (DAFs). Still, at $112.7 billion, total assets in 2022 were well above 2020 totals.

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Eight tips for funders to help grantseekers navigate your website?

Candid

Over the past three years, Candid has made data on over 15,000 funding opportunities available on Philanthropy News Digest (PND) RFP Bulletin and Foundation Directory. and be transparent about preferences, such as: “Funding only within a 50-mile radius of Cook County, IL.” . Clearly define your grant opportunities  .

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6 Reasons SEO Is Important to Nonprofits and Why

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use the “mullet” philosophy when writing website and blog headlines. Use your keywords in front (the business), and the rest of the headline (the party) in the back. Does your nonprofit do amazing work, yet you don’t get the attention you need or deserve to attract supporters and those much-needed funds?

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