Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. The lack of inclusion and equity in philanthropy. Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In service of this, in this blog, we’re highlighting five things we’ve heard about our grants data that aren’t quite accurate. Myth 1: “Candid grants data” is the same as “990 data.” institutional grantmaking and provide the starting place and scaffolding for Candid’s grants data. Other public information.

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Grant Data Pledge Foundation 107

Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Anyone who has sought a grant has probably heard “no” as often—or more often—than they’ve heard “yes.” Grant writing is challenging. Even if you write a perfect grant proposal, it still might not get funded—simply because there is so much competition. But a grant proposal rejection letter presents opportunity, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The CTK Foundation “Heroes with a Heart” Grant Award asks for your nominations of a “Hero with a Heart,” and gives them a chance to win $5,000 – a simple thanks for the hard work that they do. Grant Details. This award is open to registered nonprofits or charities of all types and sizes, worldwide.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Today’s non-profit organizations have lots of avenues to explore when seeking monetary donations, from public and private fundraising events to email, social media and crowdfunding campaigns. So how should a non-profit, no matter its size, leverage corporate philanthropy? Make a Match. Reward Volunteers.

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Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

It’s been one year since Candid received the email every nonprofit dreams of: confirmation of your $15 million grant. We applaud the example you have set in demonstrating the power of what has been called trust-based philanthropy. . As requested, we are submitting this brief annual letter on our use of these funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Participants include @GivingTues, @magusgalmarini (Agus Galmarini of the Gates Foundation) @ArielAzoff (Social Impact at Medium), @ meansandrew (Head of Philanthropy & Civic Innovation @Uptake ) and me. The winners’ featured nonprofit organizations will receive $2,500-10,000 grants! The results are in for the 2016 Giving Tuesday!

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Grant Storytelling Contest Philanthropy 101

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

The judges also determined the rules of the granting process in Fearless Foundation’s “Fearless Strivers Grant Contest,” constituted a contract and were therefore subject to anti racial-discrimination statutes found in 42 U.S. The ruling from the U.S. The judges ruled three anonymous business owners could serve as injured parties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant. How many hours could be freed up across the foundation?

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Culture Public Learning Seattle 91

Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s.

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Brazil Philanthropy Collaboration Foundation 98

Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? Purpose of the grant (e.g.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Candid

JULY 27, 2023

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 typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year.

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Grant Data Pledge Analysis 90

Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. Grant Research Tip: While there are more than 100,000 potential grant funders across the United States, they typically are very specific in what they fund and where they fund. Funding Priority: Youth Programs. Kellogg Foundation.

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Grant Fund Cleveland Program 101

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Arts Culture Grant Fund 107

Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Microsoft’s Ads for Social Impact or the Microsoft Ad Grant is a program available to eligible nonprofits to help transform their digital presence. Like the Google Ad Grant program , Microsoft is offering a monthly grant to advertise on their owned and operated websites (such as Bing, AOL, Outlook, Yahoo, MSN, and Microsoft Edge). .

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Between 2015 and 2022, education nonprofits consistently received the largest percentage of total grant dollars from institutional grantmakersan average of 27%followed by health (21%) and public benefit organizations (19%). Among individual donors, the share of dollars directed to education also declined, from 20% to 19%.

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Education Trend Share Giving 103

Bloomerang

MAY 27, 2021

A recent study by Fidelity Charitable – the USA’s biggest grantmaking public charity – reported that two out of three volunteers had reduced or halted their participation at a nonprofit which before COVID-19 , they’d previously offered their time to. Rebuilding the financial base: resource opportunities for post-pandemic grants.

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Volunteer Grant Headline Survey 137

Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

How much you can find out about individual donors depends on how much information a nonprofit or donor is willing to make public. While the IRS doesn’t require public disclosure of contributions to most nonprofits, it does require disclosure of contributions to private foundations. 990s can be searched on 990 Finder.

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Donation Grant Foundation Newsletter 117

Candid

JUNE 11, 2021

Many nonprofit leaders say that increased financial support from funders and the government helped their organizations fare better through 2020 than originally anticipated, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits." Center for Effective Philanthropy report 06/08/2021.

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Survey Philanthropy Government Nonprofit 131

Qgiv

JULY 8, 2022

On Tuesday, June 21, Giving USA released The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2021. Giving by foundations includes grants made by independent, community, and operating foundations, which in 2021 totaled $90.88 The post Giving USA 2022: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2021 appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Philanthropy Report Giving Indiana 98

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The cool part?

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Social Media Interview Challenge Media 120

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023.  Philanthropy back to the drawing board: Shaping a Future Agenda , by Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea)  In the face of ever evolving and mounting crises, this book by Rien van Gendt urges philanthropy to stop looking to the past for answers.

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Resource Mississippi Participatory New York 117

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

New Data from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) while it is not record-level funding, it was the third highest amount since the nonprofit started reporting such data in 2014. billion given toward disasters by private and community foundations, corporations, and public charities. million compared to $111.4 of the $126.7

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Disaster Philanthropy Ukraine Taxonomy 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. But that also presented a challenge.

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Philanthropy Community Time Blackbaud 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. . Is it risky to provide statistics about finances and results on a public Web site?

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Public Indianapolis Museum Organization 94

Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Both individual and institutional giving increased between 2015 and 2022, not only in terms of total dollars awarded but also in terms of average donation or grant size. By contrast, the largest share of institutional grant dollars supported education—on average 27%, compared with 19% of total individual giving.

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America Causes Fund Giving 124

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Much has been written about the extraordinary grant making of businesswomen, MacKenzie Scott. My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. As you probably know, DAFs are not public entities so there’s no application process, unless the donor decides to make the process public, which Ms.

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Fund Help Tips Pledge 139

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GrantAssistant’s full team, located in Washington, D.C.

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New York City Pakistan Proposal Indiana 95

Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

Nonprofit endowments are part of an emerging trend in trust-based philanthropy focused more on structural change to achieve a multiracial democracy. Endowments and long-term funding are ways that philanthropy can innovate in the service of mission. One could argue that philanthropy, for all its purpose, has stayed pretty much the same.

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Build Philanthropy Illinois Nonprofit 111

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. The ability to share accessible information about grant funding and its aims.

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Participatory Model Grant Foundation 129

Candid

JULY 27, 2022

Candid also alerts the cohort of nearly 900 funders who share their grants data with us. We inform them that we are tracking a particular crisis and invite them to send us information about their grants related to the crisis. For grant seekers, the data shows who’s providing funds to address a crisis.

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Data Ukraine Pledge Grant 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

The learning in public (slides and resources here ). These are here: Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”? Learning in Public Challenges and Actions. Learning in Public Challenges and Actions. Learning in Public: To What End? The Outcome of Our Outcomes.

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Foundation Site Strategy Asia 100

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. This separation came with no public announcement, either before the move or when it happened, except for a very short email sent a couple days beforehand to account administrators as a warning. To some, these events were unimportant.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“Funders should prioritize organizations with smaller budgets [and] target substantial multiyear funding toward nonprofits with budgets under $100,000 and simplify grant applications, recognizing that funders often impose greater barriers to accessing large grants,” says Heather Infantry, CEO of Giving Gap.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. Candid also offers a wide variety of borrowable e-books by topic: DEI, management, fundraising, grant writing, advocacy, etc.

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