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Award Grants Provide an Opportunity to Honor Those Most Deserving

GrantNews

Award grants provide an opportunity to honor those most deserving. Award grants may not solve the bigger problem, but at least you have the chance to do something on a smaller, individual scale to show your appreciation to someone deserving of praise.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. Studies on the topic indicate that expert peer reviewers can select strongly written grant applications but cannot necessarily predict which projects will successfully achieve stated objectives.

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How America gives: Who funds what causes and where?

Candid

In this article, we highlight key insights from our report, Dollars and Change: A Look at Individual and Institutional Giving Across the United States From 2015 to 2022 , which combines data from Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good. Who gives to what causes? Cause area determined by recipient NTEE. Source: Data from Candid.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

foundations steadily decreased their support of HBCUs, in terms of both percentage of total giving and grant dollars awarded. Across 18 years, while foundations increased their overall giving by 124%, grant dollars to HBCUs declined by 30%. billion in philanthropic dollars from 2015 to 2019, compared with HBCUs’ $303 million.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

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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What gives in Nebraska? The Buffett effect and a culture of giving 

Candid

That’s one of the findings from Dollars and Change: A Look at Individual and Institutional Giving Across the United States From 2015 to 2022 , a report released in September by Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good. These grantmakers account for about 17% of all grant dollars awarded to Nebraska-based nonprofits.

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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. Notes: “All transactions” are limited to those awarded by U.S.

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