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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019.

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

Blackbaud

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 Restricted funds are donations or grants that can only be used for the purposes specified by the funder. All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary.

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MacKenzie Scott’s $250 Million “Open Call”: What We Know

Just Write Grants

Since 2019, she's donated a massive $14 billion to over 1,600 organizations in need, but the process of selecting recipients was a closely-guarded secret. The organization name, Yield Giving, encapsulates Scott's generous, relaxed giving approach—the majority of her donations are unrestricted grants.

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Client Spotlight: Byte Back

Qgiv

Byte Back was named “One of the Best” nonprofits by the Catalogue for Philanthropy in 2019, 2014, 2018, and 2019. They expanded classes to Baltimore in 2019 after winning CAD $1 million in the TD Ready Challenge. Background. He realized that IT professionals didn’t need a degree to get a great job.

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Donor Privacy: Protecting Your Revenue and Reputation Online

OneCause

The Blackbaud Institute reports that in 2020, total online giving across the sector was up by 21% over 2019. In a 2019 survey, the Pew Research Center reports that 69% of U.S. Acquiring new donors can be 50-100% more costly than the dollars those donors actually give, according to Double the Donation.

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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

Get Fully Funded

Pay attention to the donor/attendee experience, then weigh out the potential cost and get ready to PLAN, PLAN, PLAN! So you’re not asking them for a straight-up donation, even though you should educate them about your organization in some way and hopefully add them to your list of supporters. And these events can be really successful!

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CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533%

Qgiv

In late 2019, CROS found themselves looking for new vendors to host their website and to provide a fundraising platform to process online donations. They had already tried several online donation platforms, including PayPal, Classy, and EmpowerGiving, but found them to be costly and not at all user friendly. The Solution.