Whole Whale

MAY 9, 2025

This study helps you understand and explore spending trends in Grants, Fundraising, and Advertising among top Foundations and Fundraising Organizations in the US. Interested in bringing more data to your foundation’s strategy , we’d love to talk. It’s a real mixed bag. While the average grant amount was $2.36

Foundation

Candid

JUNE 18, 2025

In response, foundations across the country are embracing adaptive funder strategies, demonstrating commitment, flexibility, and trust. Learning from that example, some private foundations are responding proactively in supporting nonprofits this year. Here are several adaptive funder strategies we’re seeing: 1.

Fund

Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These programs are often ineffective because they do not address the unique needs of Black-led organizations such as funding disparities, budgetary constraints, lack of operational support and access to the same networks as their white peers, and the broader structural barriers that Black leaders face, including anti-Blackness.

Nonprofit

Fast Company Tech

MAY 29, 2025

Simultaneously, some organizations are flattening their structures to increase agility. Research from Burning Glass Institute and Strada Education Foundation shows these programs not only reduce underemployment but also improve long-term retention.

Job

Candid

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Through the East Baltimore Research Project , the Casey Foundation wanted to know if residents, particularly residents of color, were benefiting from substantial capital and social investment or had access to the neighborhood resources that would help them thrive. Ensure community members lead and benefit from the research.

Question

Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

At the Ford Foundation, where I serve as vice president and chief people officer, we’re deeply committed to working toward equality. A reactive start: How the recession sparked the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment The economic downturn of 2008 forced the foundation to downsize, reducing our global headcount. Be transparent.

Culture

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Fortunately, when it comes to the structure of a Letter of Inquiry, you dont have to guess at what is required. When you write a Letter of Inquiry, you want to put your best foot forward every single time, even if you already received money from the funder or know the foundation staff personally. Use a letter format.

Grant

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

GrantAssistant has a process where organizations can generate summaries of requests for proposals (RFPs), use templates to generate proposal structure, brainstorm and integrate program ideas, generate accurate and relevant content, and conduct a comprehensive compliance review before submitting their proposals.

New York City

Fast Company Tech

MAY 13, 2025

But while we may aspire to treat all sports equally, pretending the playing field is already level overlooks decades of systemic inequity built into the longer-running, more prominent sports structures. Build equity into the foundation Take the WNBA. Sponsorship and content rights are structured to empower players, not just teams.

Structure

Candid

JULY 24, 2025

That figure is unchanged from 2024 and places nonprofits above every other sector, including the military (45%), small businesses (42%), private foundations (38%), the media (20%), and local (25%), state (22%), and federal (18%) government. This is both encouraging and sobering.

Public

The MatrixFiles

JUNE 5, 2025

These systems are built to support organization-based memberships, complex dues structures, company directories, industry-specific data, and advocacy tools. their underlying data structures and feature priorities often reveal their original design intent.

Associations

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the senior manager of digital and data at the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation , Im always looking for new ways to eliminate friction between our organizations mission to prevent osteoporosis and my teams ability to realize it. In the past five years, we have exceeded expectations.

Software

Candid

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Addressing power imbalances and structural inequities A critical aspect of promoting safeguarding is acknowledging and addressing the power imbalances within the philanthropic sector as well as the structural inequities that often place marginalized populations at greater risk of harm.

Philanthropy

Fast Company Tech

MAY 28, 2025

The structure, a cylinder of bone-white columns topped by a dome, wasn’t built in the traditional sense. The tower itself is all structure, with 32 tree-inspired concrete columns forming a cage-like shell that’s open to the air. Most other 3D-printed concrete buildings are single-story structures as a result.

Structure

Candid

JULY 22, 2025

In 2013, a Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) survey of nonprofit leaders found 62% did not believe most of their foundation funders had a deep understanding of the communities they sought to benefit. That lack of understanding, they said, was reflected in foundations’ funding priorities and strategies.

Practice

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When carefully structured and governed, spend-down strategies can provide targeted financial support to causes that need it most. Spend-down funds offer an interesting dichotomy to the perpetual family foundation. They allow donors to be actively involved and avoid the risks of perpetuating dynastic wealth.

Attention

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Cultivate them as you would other prospects, and take opportunities to suggest planned gift structures if you pick up on potential interest. If you screen your donor database using a combination of these markers, you’ll have a solid foundation for your planned giving prospecting process. Who Gives to Planned Giving Programs?

Program

Fast Company Tech

MAY 28, 2025

As one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture (along with his friend and colleague Richard Rogers), his buildings celebrate exposed structure, advanced engineering, and machine-age style. Photo: Loop/courtesy Norman Foster Foundation] Travels hybrid future That future, say most experts, will be multipronged. This is a possibility.

Sacramento

Bloomerang

MAY 5, 2025

Why internal structure impacts external success From database management to team communication, internal systems influence the donor experience at every interaction. Strengthening collaboration and accountability lays the foundation for more consistent, supporter-centered engagement.

Relationship

NonProfit PRO

JULY 8, 2025

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Report

.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

Lets unpack each one and explore how they can be the foundation of long-term success. Thats the foundation of momentum. It must be supported by structures, systems, and people who are equipped to act. These arent just leadership buzzwords. Its reflected in every interaction, process, and decision.

Culture

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 15, 2025

AI can reduce that guesswork by integrating computational modeling of anatomical structures, shrinking uncertainty to improve surgical precision. By integrating data intelligence into surgery, techmed is creating a new foundation for precision, adaptability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

And, how do these non-traditional digital makers get access to the resources to gather core needs, structure data in ways that serve civil society, and describe and measure impact? Thinking about a framework is, so far, based on the structure defined in Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schanks Power to the Public ([link].

Public

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Your messaging is the foundation of your direct mail strategy. Review available case studies, testimonials, and pricing structures to pick one that will fulfill your needs without breaking your budget. With VDP, you can customize elements like donor names, specific asks, or calls-to-action to make every message feel uniquely tailored.

Mail

Fast Company Tech

MAY 8, 2025

While that may sound small, it adds up: Every few millimeters that a city sinks can cause cracks in roads or tilt building foundations, and make that region more vulnerable to extreme flooding. It undermines building foundations, damages roads and pipelines, and compromises flood defenses.

Houston

Candid

JUNE 24, 2025

Foundation funding, which was stable between 2022 and 2023, declined 25% in 2024, falling below pre-pandemic levels. By contrast, those with depleted savings face immediate pressure to rethink strategies, structures, and sources of support. Rethinking staff structures to align with changing revenue realities.

Arts

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Some overqualified employees feel constrained by rigid structures. This way, the job becomes a stable foundation that funds your bigger ambitions without draining you. Sponsoring executive education, certifications, or even providing a “personal development budget” empowers them to grow in ways that matter to them.

Work

Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While structure and design make digital products easier to navigate, your content is what creates value for your audiences and drives them to engage more deeply. The structures of reporting and control needed to assure decision-making clarity and ongoing continual improvement.

Digital

Fast Company Tech

JUNE 20, 2025

It goes by many names—embodied awareness, whole-self management, conscious leadership—but the core message is the same: intuition and spiritual presence are the foundations of strategic leadership. It cloaks itself in the language of growth while quietly eroding the foundation of competency-based leadership. It’s structural.

Leadership

Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

To remain effective, we need to challenge ourselves to shed activities or structures that dont advance our clearly defined mission. Save the Children draws funding from a range of sources: individual donors, corporations, foundations, multilateral institutions, and government agencies. We raise significant funds from the U.S.

Challenge

Candid

JULY 8, 2025

Structural barriers widen the tech gender gap Yet within this ecosystem, structural barriers continue to hinder women’s full participation and advancement in tech. According to the Council on Foundations , these networks generate a virtuous cycle of empowerment, where alumni return as mentors, sponsors, and ambassadors.

Philanthropy

Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2025

” “We finally got that foundation grant we’ve been chasing, but our team struggles with our current system as it is. Successful donor management implementation isn’t about finding the perfect softwareit’s about following a structured roadmap that addresses both technological and human elements of change.

Management

Candid

JULY 15, 2025

Pairing community-owned land with strategies for wealth creation is the foundation for the Global Village. This requires the partnership of investors with patient capital- an investment that has a long-term approach—and legal and financial expertise to navigate ownership structures.

Community

Fast Company Tech

MAY 20, 2025

After the shaking stops, the house is still standingbut the foundation has visible cracks, and the ground beneath has clearly shifted. Or would you trust someone who acknowledges that there could be aftershocks, and who agrees that it makes sense to test the structure of the house before going back?

Team

Candid

MAY 12, 2025

Nurture Possibility & Innovation offers ways for funders to collaborate with nonprofits to reimagine how we work together, both in exploring different funding structures, prioritizing convening and connecting, and supporting big dreams and big bets for innovative paths forward.

Philanthropy

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

billion given toward disasters by private and community foundations, corporations, and public charities. The new information in the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2024 is based on data from Candids Foundation 1000 data sets. However, it is just 1.4% of the $126.7 And, when COVID focused giving was removed, it was $547.5

Disaster

Greater Giving

JULY 9, 2025

While things may feel quieter during July and August, now is the time to lay the foundation that will set your fall fundraising event on fire. 7 Summer Fundraising Committee Planning Tips for a Successful Fall Event Want a smoother, more successful fall fundraiser? Start with strategic summer planning.

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