Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Forty years later, we remain an influential intermediary funder that raises funds from institutional grantmakers and individual donors. Here we’ll share our insights into how the practice of listening to the community and funding the supposedly “unfundable” on a small scale can achieve what traditional large-scale philanthropy cannot.

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

Smaller shares of grantmakers providing technology and tools, unrestricted funding The good news is that a significant majority of funders are now committed to streamlining grant applications (67%) and reporting processes (56%). Funding technology for equitable outcomes Why should this matter to grantmakers?

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2025

While part of that dedication is inherent to the work they do and the communities they serve, there are ways that you as a funder can use your grants management system to give them back a little timeand maybe help them take a step back from burnout. For many of those efforts, the basis is an intuitive grants management system.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized. What is an award management system?

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2025

As we see more of our processes move from paper files and folders to purpose-built systems in the cloud, we also see endless possibilities for automation, notifications, and API processes to extend the functionality of our individual solutions. When you unite your fundraising and finance systems, efficiency is simply the first win of many.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Fund accounting. Gone are the days when each of those systems required a different login and manual data manipulation to get what you needed. Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Credit: Rama & Muse Bolo (Wikipedia/Creative Commons), steve lodefink (Wikipedia/Creative Commons), The Computer Museum @ System Source In those days, computers took up entire rooms, and users accessed them through teletype terminalselectric typewriters hooked up to either a serial cable or a modem and a phone line.

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2025

340B Health , an organization advocating for hospitals and health systems serving vulnerable communities, faced a rapidly changing regulatory environment. Lack of Entrepreneurial Thinking Unlike for-profit businesses, associations tend to rely on stable membership dues and predictable funding streams , which can limit strategic innovation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. Come along with us as we explore how nonprofit grant management software is evolving and what cool new things it can do to help organizations like yours get and use funding to make a real difference.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But without the right systems, this process can be mind-numbingly time-consuming and prone to errors. By integrating fundraising and finance systems, information flows easily from gift records to journal entries, saving time, reducing the risk of fraud, and simplifying audits. And the automation also minimizes the burden on your staff.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As a nonprofit finance leader, you are constantly aware of the many different pulls on your funding availability. This is where your fund accounting system can help you get the granularity you need from your budgeting process to make data-driven decisions. One program could use more headcount to serve more people.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The stakes are high; securing funds means supporting the needs of my own community. We advocate for our communities while operating within systems that may not always reflect our values or experiences. What if, instead of striving to survive these systems, we aimed to thrive by centering our own well-being as an act of resistance?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Having a fund accounting system can significantly streamline your finance function. Tools like Power Automate and Power BI can extend your fund accounting and transform your nonprofit accounting software into an even more powerful tool. Monitor the performance closely, paying attention to user feedback and system behavior.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

At face value, AI appears to be a gift from the fund development and marketing gods. Think of tools like spam filters, donor segmentation algorithms, or predictive analytics that forecast campaign performance systems that excel at recognizing patterns in existing data. But whats the reality?

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The data reveals important insights into disparities in leadership, funding, and support. Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO of ABFE, highlights what Black-led nonprofits are missing out on by not receiving adequate funding. These leaders are already delivering results in their communities.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This means distinctly separating net assets with donor restrictions, such as grant funding, from those without donor restrictions to better understand the liquidity of your resources. An organized record-keeping system ensures your nonprofit can easily access key financial data when the time comes to compile your financial statements.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Maintaining compliance can protect existing funding, as well. The Importance of Accurate Time Allocation for Nonprofits Accurate time allocation is a cornerstone for nonprofit organizations, especially those with grant funding. Grants often come with specific stipulations on how funds should be allocated and reported.

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2024

One funding trend Candids Research team recently unearthed is that education fundings share of philanthropic giving, especially from institutional grantmakers, is shrinking. Education remains a funding priority but with a shrinking share Education has been a top priority for both institutional grantmakers and individual donors.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

So in 2021, Thorleifsson launched Ramp Up Reykjavk to fund the installation of 100 ramps in places with the most foot traffic across Icelands capitalcafs, restaurants, and shops. Buildings, sidewalks, and transportation systems often remain out of compliance or are poorly maintained, and legal protections such as the ADA arent universal.

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Charity Village

JULY 25, 2024

The Burns Memorial Fund announced a request for proposals for the Calgary Youth Employment Initiative 2024. The RFP is focused on improving employment outcomes by supporting bridging initiatives within the youth employment system in Calgary.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Reddit 's automated moderation system is apparently flagging the word "Luigi" as potentially violent , The Verge reported. healthcare system, and because of his physical attractiveness. His legal defense team recently created a website as supporters donate to his defense fund and follow his case.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With Evo 2, we make biological design of complex systems more accessible to researchers, enabling the creation of new and beneficial advances in a fraction of the time it would previously have taken.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

As a funder, you probably wish you could fund them all. To avoid wading through funding applications that dont meet your program criteriaand wasting the time of those nonprofits submitting those applicationsyou should include an eligibility quiz before the formal application. What is an Eligibility Quiz for a Funding Application?

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation‘s National Anti-Racism Fund is now accepting applications for new projects. Organizations across Canada organizing anti-racism projects in 2024 and 2025 are invited to apply.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Embrace Cloud-Based Processes Cloud-based digital processes enable your staff to access necessary systems from anywhere. Create a Single System of Record Having a single system of record breaks down silos within your organization, making it easier for different team members to step in and keep processes moving seamlessly.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. What Are Restricted Funds? What are Unrestricted Funds?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

If you take Matthew’s excellent advice, a great option is to invest in nonprofit system integration. You might be wondering, however, what is a system integration? An integration is a data-sharing connection between tools through APIs, middleware products such as Zapier, or native add-ons many systems provide.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

When a new member joins the board, provide an orientation to familiarize them with the reports they will see regularly and show them how to access financial information through your fund accounting system. Providing view-only access to your fund accounting dashboards allows board members to acclimate to nonprofit financials.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

To meet those requirements, you’ll need to be able to successfully track and manage your grants and effectively report on how you allocated these funds. If you are a grant-funded organization, it will be important to manage spending restrictions and meet reporting requirements. Tracking: Cut Out the Spreadsheets!

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 10, 2021

Join CharityEngine’s Erin Crotty, as she shows how to set up a system of demonstrating gratefulness for your various donor types: sustainers, new donors, annual fund donors, and more. Statistics say it takes 7 personal touches to go from a first gift to the second.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2024

You know how important it is to manage your funds according to their purpose and source. Is your accounting system designed to handle these complexities? Or do you have to rely on manual workarounds, spreadsheets, and guesswork to track and report on your restricted funds?

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

In addition to the financial investment, there are many people, processes, and systems that you need to account for with this decision. Involve your staff by developing a steering committee comprised of different members of the team who interact with your system, including your accounting, technology, and program teams.

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sgEngage

MARCH 24, 2025

Healthcare delivery has evolved since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, prompting health systems to find more effective ways to serve their communities and address identified health needs. The emergence of community health worker (CHW) programs within healthcare systems has accelerated over the past five years.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

If you’re still using spreadsheets and manual processes to piece together and track program data, you're missing out on key benefits that a streamlined system can offer.

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Candid

AUGUST 13, 2024

Developing an effective funding strategy is vital to any nonprofit’s ability to sustain or increase its impact. And nonprofit boards play an important role in virtually every organization’s funding strategy. After all, aren’t you leaving money on the table by not seeking funding in more ways? So how does that play out?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC)fiscally sponsored and co-founded by Global Fund for Childrenworks to create organizational practices and cultures in support of safeguarding. Those cases sparked awareness among many funders of their role in incentivizing safety and their obligations when failures occur at grantee organizations.

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