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Key Trends Shaping Major Gift Fundraising in 2025

Gail Perry Group

Using AI ethically and transparently will be critical to maintaining their trust. Use AI to make your work easier, but let your heart and ethics lead the way. The Growth of Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) As we all know, donor-advised funds are growing in popularity. Takeaway: Be careful. But DAFs can feel like a mystery.

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Grassroots Fundraising vs. Top-Down Philanthropy: Which Works Better?  

Center for Major Gifts

Millennials are often the first source of funding for grassroots organizations. This generation has a sense of identity and community, so they have a natural drive to fund local causes that they care about. Through top-down philanthropy, wealthy individuals can fund programs and organizations that they have strong feelings about.

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Alumni giving’s growing relationship with high-profile, big money donors 

Candid

billion in funding. In April of this year, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, Kenneth C. In June 2023, alumna, Marilyn Simons, and her husband, James Simons, founder of the quantitative hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies—and former chair of the math department at Stony Brook University— committed $500 million to the university.

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How To Recruit Sponsors For Your Fundraising Events & Campaigns

CauseVox

In our ethics and value-focused corporate culture, companies are now proving that they care about causes through corporate social responsibility initiatives. Decisions such as who/where to allocate funds are often left to employee committees or other governing bodies. April 21, 2017. What’s In It For The Company? XYZ Nonprofit.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

” This makes sense, for all the reasons I articulated back in 2017. Why the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Deserves More Funding. ” * Bowdlerizing Roald Dahl and the Ethics of Art. * “ How to go car-free — or car-light — in Middle America.”