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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

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The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. In an effort to turn this trend around, the MacArthur Foundation unveiled in September 2023 the Press Forward initiative, a coalition of 22 founding donors set on “strengthening communities and democracy by supporting local news.”

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Finding Donors: Where Donor Research Can Make a Huge Difference

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He has worked in capital campaigns, major and planned giving (including charitable gift annuities) grant writing and donor research. According to 1 Pew Research, Generation X donors have the following characteristics: 79% are religiously affiliated, 64% are patriotic. Strawhecker, Inc. In 2016, he received the CFRE designation.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

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Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. Researchers can use the Foundation 1000 or another cleaned subset of data to create historical trends for these years.

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

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Pledges are excluded. This means that if researchers simply look at all of Candid’s data on foundation giving, they risk inadvertently conflating an increase in data collection with an increase in giving. To learn more about our grant and transactions data set, download our research manual. private and community foundations.

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Using Prospect Research to Improve Your Ask: 5 Tips

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Nonprofits professionals turn to prospect research time after time to enhance and strengthen their fundraising strategies. This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information on prospective donors, helping your organization better understand its audience and determine key cultivation steps. . fundraising plan.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

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This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research. Below, we outline some of the most important things to know about this data—especially for journalists, researchers, and others seeking to leverage real-time data to identify funding trends. . Call to action .

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Take The Emial-Free Vacation Pledge

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communication expert, David Grossman, encourages you to take his pledge for an email-free vacation. When you take the pledge you''ll also learn from David his recommended Eight Great Steps to Unplug & Recharge. 1 You can find the pledge here. As the season of spring vacations continues throughout the U.S,

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