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Trust-Based Philanthropy: “Walking the Talk” Towards Long-Term Financial Wellness

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Funders providing these types of gifts have a responsibility to trust their grantees to do what’s best for the organization while also supporting them with financial literacy. The Trust Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year funder initiative that addresses inherent power imbalances between foundations and nonprofits.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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How to Engage Employees in National (Virtual) Volunteer Month

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Bose’ Akadiri , Program Manager, Employee Volunteerism at Salesforce, and Cécile Poyet, Director, Product Marketing, Philanthropy Cloud at Salesforce.org. At Salesforce, we believe a top-down and bottom-up approach in philanthropy and employee engagement works best and ensures alignment.

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Member Round Up: A busy September with new research, a cure for website obesity, and world literacy day

NTEN

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy ''s upcoming webinar, Bringing Entrepreneurial Skills into Grantmaking Practices , will explore ways in which you can employ the skills and practices used by social entrepreneurs. Care2 thinks it''s likely that your organization is not sending enough fundraising emails. Register now!

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." Sources: ^ [1] " Financial Literacy for the Long Term ," Philanthropy Matters, Vol. The Moody’s Foundation, 2011.

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

This can lead to funding shortages: A 2021 study by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy found that AANHPI communities receive just 20 cents of every $100 awarded by foundations. Based on that, funders may assume that AANHPI populations are universally well off. We found striking data points , such as that only 54.5%

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Lucy Bernholz Named Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A thought leader in the intersection of philanthropy, law, policy, and technology, Bernholz writes about the business of giving in books, articles, and her award-winning blog, Philanthropy2173.com. Philanthropy' com. She is working on her second book, tentatively titled, The Future of Good.