Remove 2017 Remove Award Remove Funding
article thumbnail

Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. Hurricane Helene: The challenge of underinvestment Floods dont attract as much funding as hurricanes and tropical storms. million was disbursed, despite much more being pledged.

Insurance 119
article thumbnail

Nonprofit Health Grants Crucial to Underserved Communities

GrantNews

Nonprofit health grants help bridge the gap, providing essential funding to improve access and outcomes. billion in public funds were paid to providers to help defray providers uncompensated care costs associated with caring for the uninsured in 2017. Funding for Professional Health Information Resources Training!

Grants 69
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

MacArthur Offers $100 Million For One Good Program

The NonProfit Times

MacArthur Foundation’s $100 million 100&Change competition has launched with roughly 1,000 nonprofits expected to vie for the winner take all award. The award will be announced in late 2025. There were 800 applicants for the 2021 competition and 1,400 for the first award in 2017. Round Three of the John D.

Award 105
article thumbnail

Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). 2016, Danthi et al., 2014, Berg, 2013).

Grants 130
article thumbnail

The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

And 2023 set records in disaster relief funding. The Maui wildfire response The Maui wildfires in August, which affected Lahaina and Kula, stand out for the funds raised. In looking at Candid’s Foundation 1000 research sets, excluding epidemic-related funding, including for the COVID-19 pandemic, these large U.S.

IT 122
article thumbnail

Black Business Community – Overcoming Challenges to Flourish

GrantNews

up from 124,004 in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, the number of Black-owned businesses nationwide increased by 13.64%- compared to 0.53% growth for all businesses over that same period. billion in gross revenue in 2020, growing 11% since 2017. Funding is for artists from historically underserved and marginalized populations.

Grants 115
article thumbnail

Foundation giving and payout in 2022: What changed and what’s next?

Candid

Overall foundation giving from 2021 to 2022 increased by 3% Among the 557 survey respondents who provided funding data for fiscal year end (FYE) 2021 and 2022, cumulative giving increased from $25.3 From 2015 to 2019, the annual change in grant dollars ranged from a high of 7% in 2017 to less than 0.1%

Grants 105