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Nonprofit Crisis Response Tip-a-Day-DO-Dah!

Clairification

During the 2008-09 worldwide recession, many charities cut back on fundraising and marketing. Resist the temptation to throw your hands up in the air, assume people feel too uncertain to give now, and simply leave folks (donors and clients) to their own devices. We know from past experience this won’t end well.

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What History Teaches Us | How to fundraise NOW

Pamela Grow

I launched my consulting career smack-dab in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. Id just come from working at a family grant-making foundation, and I witnessed something Ill never forget. Local nonprofit after nonprofit, small and heavily reliant on grants, shutting their doors for good. It was heartbreaking. But it was also eye-opening.

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Does Your Nonprofit Think Too Small?

Clairification

In 2008 during the big recession, and 2020 during the pandemic, all I heard was cut, cut, cut. I’m sure some will hate me for saying this, but after 30+ years in the nonprofit trenches and another 10+ as a coach and consultant, I’m still amazed at how small many of us think.

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The Philanthropy That Jump-Started a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Since 2008, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded $35 million to research scientists focused on the disease. By Kay Dervishi A Sickle Cell patient receives treatment at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and stem Cell Research at University of California.

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Corporate Giving Declined in 2008

Tech Soup

overall in 2008. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's 2008 assessment of corporate gving (PDF) reports that corporate giving was down nearly 8% overall ($30.78 Last month we mentioned GivingUSA's annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7% million compared to $33.19

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Community foundations’ grantmaking exceeded fundraising in FY 2023 

Candid

This is the first time since CF Insights began releasing survey data (with fiscal year 2008) that total grantmaking exceeded total fundraising. Zooming out to the entire sample of 612 community foundations in the 2023 survey, we see they collectively awarded $18.7 billion in total grant dollars, eclipsing the $16.2

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Wild Apricot Updates October 2008

Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot non-profit technology blog is sponsored by Bonasource, creators of Wild Apricot software.