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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. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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

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One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. To do so, it’s easy to assume that the best place to start is with as much data as possible. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. Pledges are excluded.

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Teaching The CEO To Fundraise And Even Like It

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Whether a nonprofit has one board or two (governance and foundation), getting your volunteers involved is critical. Share the correct data. CEOs, like other members of the leadership team, use data to make daily decisions. The same is true with philanthropy data. You have to engage key volunteers.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

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Governments have also directed hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance for Ukraine. We have identified 208 pledges and grants for Ukraine relief. This includes 34 pledges worth $241,773,200 and 174 grants worth $343,561,933 as of March 8. Details about data on funding for Ukraine humanitarian relief.

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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

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The United Nations also issued an appeal for an additional $1 billion in aid, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development pledged €1.5 million and an additional 50 pledges worth $51.1 70% of grants and pledges were made with identifiable announcement dates, with 83.5% billion in emergency funds. billion ($1.6

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Weekly update from PND

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Launched in March 2021, the #Case4Reparations initiative is aimed at driving and amplifying conversations and campaigns in support of systemic and policy change efforts to realize reparations where wealth—money or land—can be redistributed by institutions and/or governments to Black and Native American communities. Read more. . Read more. .

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

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Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue.

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