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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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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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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

Who is funding them, and what activities do donors support? To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. For grant seekers, the data shows who’s providing funds to address a crisis. With breaking news, it takes time for the full picture to emerge.

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The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap  

Candid

This data gives a glimpse into who’s funding what, where, right now, especially when it comes to large donors and headline-making giving. To date, data sharing partners have shared 33,000 grants from fiscal year 2022 , providing the sector with early indications of philanthropic trends and responses to current challenges.

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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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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Assembly | Malala Fund. Instead of trying to make sure the headline and first sentence of each post is the same length, the Assembly site chose to use a masonry-style grid, which de-emphasizes the length of text and visually balances the content by organizing the blocks vertically instead of horizontally. 2) Women’s Funding Network.

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