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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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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

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Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once. Thinking big on climate change There is good news.

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Grants management software

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Grants management software Unify giving and grantmaking Build strategic nonprofit partnerships that drive more social impact with less work for your teams. Learn more Measure program outcomes in real time Built-in reporting Bonterra’s native reporting tool empowers grants administrators to measure program outcomes, not just outputs.

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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 philanthropy,?analyzing?funding In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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CDP recommendations for philanthropy and COVID-19

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Writer’s Note: The following recommendations were originally shared in Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining two years of giving , a report published on May 25, 2022 by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid. MacKenzie Scott’s grantmaking is a wonderful example of an important approach in philanthropy: flexibility.

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Community foundations: Donor-advised fund grants outpaced contributions in 2022 

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In 2022, when both contributions to the funds and their investment returns declined, DAF account holders continued to recommend grants. As a result, total dollars distributed through DAF grants increased significantly over the previous year, outpacing contributions for the first time since we started reporting this data in 2012.

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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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