Lightning Fast Grant Writing
MAY 12, 2025
New leadership, shifting priorities, evolving language around DEIeverything changes constantly, and if youre not careful, your boilerplate starts to look like a relic from 2019. Keeping the organizational grant story updated can feel like trying to change a tire while the cars still moving.
Candid
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Based on data from nonprofits that shared information on their CEO’s race with Candid between July 2019 and January 2024, 15% of CEOs identified as African American. Out of 6,119 organizations with Black CEOs, 2,165 had majority Black leadership—defined as having a Black CEO and 51% or more Black board members.
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Candid
DECEMBER 31, 2024
According to the authors of The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Age of AI, the human risks of over-reliance on AI tools for time and cost efficiency include exacerbating the burnout crisis and eroding internal collaboration and communication. nonprofit sector demographics by Kyoko Uchida, Candid.
Candid
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. In 2019, the World Health Organization defined workplace burnout not as an employee problem, but as an organizational culture and leadership problem.
Candid
MAY 16, 2024
Based on data from 59,550 public charities that shared demographic data between July 2019 and January 2024, 47% of all staff identify as white, 24% as Black/African American, 19% as Hispanic/Latino, 6% as Asian American/Pacific Islander, 1% as Native American, and 4% as multiracial.
Network for Good
OCTOBER 16, 2020
In 2019, only 19% of first-time donors gave a second time. You can’t sustain a nonprofit with that level of attrition — it will lead to burnout. Attracting new donors is an essential part of every fundraising strategy. But it’s not enough. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to convert one-time donors to monthly supporters.
Candid
MARCH 11, 2024
Based on a 2022 survey of more than 3,000 nonprofit staff, The Push and Pull: Declining Interest in Nonprofit Leadership found that fewer respondents said they aspired to lead than in 2016 and 2019. These findings raise real concerns about the future of leadership in the sector.
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