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Learning from peers to refine your nonprofit funding strategy

Candid

Research funding strategies Researching your peer organizations funding strategies involves checking out public financial sources and, ideally, talking directly with those peers to get more details. Once youve identified peer organizations of similar size and mission, you can determine which organizations revenue mixes to research.

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Blendoor data lets you know if companies are living up to diversity pledges

TechCrunch

She said that the startup targeted companies that had made public DEI pledges as a natural place to start. She then took this data and structured it, normalized it and built an algorithm that could dynamically score companies much the same way that our credit rating or security scorecards work and make that information public.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

Non Profit Quarterly

Image credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash The decades-long decimation of local news—and the dangers that the trend poses for public oversight, an informed citizenry, and democracy itself—remains very much underway. The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed.

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We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

million citizens, this would be the equivalent of 450,000 subscribers for an American publication. When all newspapers routinely published the yearly governmental budget memorandum on their front-pages, Rob would opt for the less covered but more influential story of refugees being traded by national governments. Here’s our story.

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10 Common Misconceptions Nonprofits Have About Bitcoin Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Major crypto gifts haven’t slowed down, with multi-million dollar pledges happening in December and January so far. Cryptocurrencies are regular by many of the same government agencies that regulate the traditional world of finance including the IRS, SEC, CFTC and local regulators. Myth 2: Cryptocurrencies aren’t regulated enough.

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The most innovative companies in economic development for 2025

Fast Company Tech

And PIDC , a public-private investment group in Philadelphia, is redeveloping the centuries-old U.S. Naval Shipyard with a $1 billion diversity pledge. But the challenging road required to hit that target inspired the city government to seek out new kinds of partnerships to meet that bold pledge.

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