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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. Applied an equity lens: We aim to grant funds with an equity lens, focusing on the needs of historically or currently marginalized and at-risk populations along with more local, on-the-ground organizations.

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Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

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A security incident is a disaster of the highest order. Many of the data disasters I’ve seen result from well-intentioned employees trying to get a job done without the correct information about how to do it. Granting access while guiding usage builds a culture where data is valued. Much of the data in your systems is not yours.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

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Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding Support underfunded areas of the disaster lifecycle. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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What we know about MacKenzie Scott’s 2020 grants

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Over the course of 2020, MacKenzie Scott announced grants totaling almost $6 billion. In a recent analysis , we looked at the characteristics of the December cohort, which totaled $4.2 At the time, we did not know anything about the grants themselves. These grants represent about $2.4 Grant size distribution.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) head Filippo Grandi described this humanitarian disaster as “the fastest-moving refugee crisis we have seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War”. We have identified 208 pledges and grants for Ukraine relief. Unknown and multiple recipients received 40% of grants and 62% of total grant funding.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

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Candid also alerts the cohort of nearly 900 funders who share their grants data with us. We inform them that we are tracking a particular crisis and invite them to send us information about their grants related to the crisis. For grant seekers, the data shows who’s providing funds to address a crisis.

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9 Best Practices for Strong Nonprofit Financial Management

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You will always get the grant and donors will never churn. Depending on your organization’s focus and activities, you may have different types of funding, such as grants, contracts, donations, program fees, sponsorships, or merchandise sales. In a perfect world, your budget will always be balanced.