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Shifting power: How the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment is transforming culture and impact 

Candid

We removed unnecessary educational requirements that might have limited our applicant pool and no longer assumed elite universities had the best talent. We needed to widen our search for talent to build a more diverse team. We rewrote job descriptions to use gender-neutral language.

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News to Use! What Fundraisers Can Expect from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Expiration

Gail Perry Group

This was followed by an expected dip in 2018's giving growth rate. Plan Ahead Internally and Educate Yourself Get ready for 2025. The 2017 Giving Bump An interesting phenomenon occurred in 2017 - we saw a surge in giving as donors rushed to maximize benefits before TCJA took effect. Keep nurturing those major donors.

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

This exploitation mirrors the actions of the defendants in this case, who leveraged the catastrophic 2010 Haiti earthquake, and several subsequent earthquakes, and other natural disasters occurring in 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2023, to raise over five-hundred millions of dollars in donations, purportedly for relief efforts in Haiti.

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Mega Gifts Are Funding University Tuitions. Which Students Do They Help?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

In 2018, Michael Bloomberg gave $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins, the norm for a big higher education donation was about $100 million. billion gift to Johns Hopkins, the norm for a big higher education donation was about $100 million. In 2018, Michael Bloomberg gave $1.8

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Taking Community Benefit Initiatives to the Streets: The Rise of Mobile Clinics

Blackbaud

The fully equipped program on wheels offers a range of services, including dental and developmental screenings, blood lead level testing, lead poisoning education, flu shots, back-to-school physicals, vision and hearing screenings, health education, community resources, and referrals to specialized services.

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Walmart pledges $1 billion to pay employees’ college tuition, books

Candid

Walmart has announced a five-year, $1 billion commitment to cover 100 percent of the cost of college tuition and books for its employees through the company’s Live Better U (LBU) education program. Since LBU was launched in 2018, more than fifty-two thousand employees have participated and eight thousand have graduated. "We

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Where are the 2019 (and 2020) 990s? On filling the gaps in Candid’s grants data

Candid

And the rate at which we’re receiving 2019 filings has slowed, compared with 2018 filings (and 2018 was somewhat slower than 2017). As of April 2021, we’ve collected 348,330 filings for 2019, about half of what we expect to collect overall and 37 percent fewer than we had at the same point last year for fiscal year 2018. [1].

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