NonProfit PRO

JUNE 12, 2023

GiveCampus has acquired Community Funded, a provider of crowdfunding technology. The combination of these two mission-driven companies will expand the reach and power of social fundraising to even more schools.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 9, 2022

A new spotlight report from National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), the largest national, independent public charity that manages donor-advised funds (DAF), details that on average, over the past five years, noncash assets accounted for more than half of total contributions to NPT DAFs.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 23, 2023

Ballmer Group, Echoing Green, and New Profit announce funding for a new initiative to address the systemic funding gap for Black-led nonprofit organizations in the U.S. The grant will fund a five-year initiative to build leadership and sustainability of Black-led organizations focused on economic mobility.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. What Are Restricted Funds? What are Unrestricted Funds?

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 10, 2022

SoLo Funds announced a new initiative, Amplify Fund, to amplify the reach of its emergency loan marketplace. Amplify Fund enables corporations, nonprofits, and local governments to create equitable access to emergency capital and track the impact.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

As a result, some foundations have started thinking about giving in a crisis before it even begins and developing a strategy to make sure that their funds have the most impact. A few ways funders have modelled this is by loosening deadlines, converting grant funds from restricted to unrestricted funding, and simplifying processes. .

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2023

Four national funding partners have announced the Leadership in Art Museums (LAM) initiative. Over the next five years, the LAM funders will commit over $11M in funding to museums to increase racial equity in leadership roles.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 15, 2022

Givebutter has completed a seed funding round totaling $7 million. The new funding will allow it to accelerate its pace of innovation across a wide range of free fundraising tools, including donation forms, campaigns, events, donor management (CRM), emails, texting, and a new auction solution launching later this year.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 29, 2022

PayPal announced Grant Payments, a new product that enables donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsors, community foundations, and other grantmakers to deliver grants to charities quickly and electronically via PayPal.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2022

Salesforce announced the launch of its Catalyst Fund, which will provide critical, unrestricted capital to nonprofits led by underrepresented leaders. The first round of grants, totaling $2 million, supports 20 nonprofits that are addressing inequities in education, economic opportunity, and racial justice.

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Donorbox

DECEMBER 6, 2023

According to studies, challenge gifts attracted 23% more donors and 18% more dollars than identical fundraising campaigns without the matching gift challenge. A challenge gift uses nonprofits’ […] The post How to Use Challenge Gifts to Bring in More Funds appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 19, 2022

The Volunteer Generation Fund focuses on investments in volunteer management practices that increase both volunteer recruitment and retention. The 2023 grant competition will fund programs that address the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on students.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 12, 2023

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota nonprofit ThinkTechAct Foundation, as well as its founder/president, a board member and executive director, alleging they ran a sham nonprofit and misused nonprofit funds.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The 2022 Donor-Advised Fund Report details growth in all key DAF metrics for the 12th consecutive year. The new report also reveals DAF grantmaking to charities around the world grew 60% compared to pre-pandemic 2019 and increased 400% over the past decade.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. Worse, studies show that we’re more likely to perceive negative news as truthful. The post Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 27, 2022

The blockchain-based nonprofit Endaoment recently announced the launch of the Basic Needs Fund, a collaborative effort that aims to bring housing, water, and food to critically underserved and marginalized communities around the world.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 6, 2022

1% for the Planet — the global network of individuals and businesses that has donated more than $350 million to support environmental nonprofits around the globe — announced the launch of an innovative philanthropic fund providing environmentally-focused investments and grants.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 13, 2022

in seed funding, enabling the company to expand engineering capacities to continue its mission of counteracting an increasingly sexist and racist internet. Humanitas Technologies has secured $1.5M

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Candid

APRIL 19, 2023

Using an intersectional lens to climate funding According to Rogers, one of the essential elements of a just approach to climate funding is to work in an intentional way to acknowledge and account for the way racism and sexism have impacted whose leadership is amplified and whose work is supported.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 2, 2021

The joint PolicyLink-Bridgespan Group analysis, "Moving from Intention to Impact: Funding Racial Equity to Win," is calling for funders to be more transparent about where their proposed dollars went, as 94% of donors have yet to report data, which has made pinpointing the actual funding to racial equity efforts extremely difficult.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 22, 2023

Jennifer Rubin and Terry Pearl of 360 Philanthropy Group shared an anonymous nonprofit case study that relied on storytelling via social media and email to raise $57,000 in unrestricted funds in two weeks. Here’s a look at their recommended social media strategy.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We also explored how he arrived at the decision to give his money to nonprofits that support his favorite animals in perpetuity through his own donor-advised fund. Considering the dollars at play, let’s now shift our focus to the important considerations for nonprofit fundraisers who may want to get in on some DAF funding action.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 8, 2023

A new spotlight report from National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), found that DAF grantmaking growth rates have consistently surpassed growth rates of individual giving and other forms of giving for the past 15 years.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you answered ‘Yes’ to all 3 of these questions, please consider taking part in a study that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, […]. The post Participate in a new research study about meaningful work appeared first on CharityVillage. Is your work based in Toronto?

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 23, 2023

MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving will provide 250 $1 million unrestricted operating gifts to small nonprofits. The application process is now open, with awardees expected to be announced early next year.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. And while there are times and places for these reports, storytelling for nonprofits to raise funds is not the time or the place. Plus, if you don’t ask, people may not know you need funds.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Daffy.org announces the roll-out of new features to better discover charities through friends and colleagues, support causes and organizations together, and inspire one another with our philanthropic passions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Philanthropy is at an inflection point and fundraisers are looking opportunistically beyond cash and credit as their sole sources of funding. The good news is that other sources of funding are readily available. Consider the following: More than half of US households own $30 trillion in stocks, mutual funds and related investments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2022

Chris Johnson , a Real Estate Broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, serves as the President of the chapter’s Associate Board, whose charge is to raise funds for the organization’s work. Funds raised by the Associate Board help underwrite the costs of this program, which is a key part of fulfilling the local chapter’s mission.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities.

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Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2023

In fundraising, we look at the ability to raise funds, how many new donors we gained, how many donors gave again, and the performance of specific fundraising tactics. Get to the heart of why you’re doing the work and understand the funds needed in order to operate. How do you measure success in a given year?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The growth in Employee Relief Funds (ERFs) exploded in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 began to affect companies and their employees around the globe. This blog is based on LBG Associates’ and LBG Research Institute’s latest landmark study called Secrets to Building an Effective and Sustainable Employee Relief Fund.

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Candid

JULY 23, 2021

The study found that while ensuring local buy-in and community ownership of the solutions is essential, building trust and relationships with community members takes time and patience.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The first-of-its-kind quantitative study on strategic volunteerism, “The State of Volunteer Engagement: Insights from Nonprofit Leaders and Funders” was conducted by Dr. Nathan Dietz and Dr. Robert T. percent of nonprofits are operating with less funding and paid staff than they had before the pandemic. At the same time, 28.7

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

While this NTEN eBenchmark Study is from 2012, the data continues to grow and support the future of nonprofit technology, and comparing years can lead to newly occurring trends. The post Infographic: How Technology Increases Funding appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

The Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study is making its eleventh highly anticipated appearance on the desks of peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraisers everywhere. The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020.

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