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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 All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. What Are Restricted Funds? Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

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Can a Grant-Making Competition Stop Rich Donors From Getting Cold Feet?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

In 2019, Lever for Change spun off from the MacArthur Foundation as a separate organization with an eye-popping goal: to drive $1 billion in philanthropic funding over four years to promising nonprofits.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. Big philanthropy’s support of HBCUs declined from 2002 to 2019 An examination of trends in philanthropic giving to HBCUs underscores a history of underfunding. In fact, large U.S.

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Mentor New York’s Virtual Fundraising Event Raises 12x Their Fundraising Goal With CauseVox

CauseVox

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Ah, the powers of technology.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. And while there are times and places for these reports, storytelling for nonprofits to raise funds is not the time or the place. Plus, if you don’t ask, people may not know you need funds.

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8 transformative things I’ve learned from 35 years in fundraising

Future Fundraising Now

Stories are great, brilliant photos are important, timing makes a difference — but if you really want to raise funds, offer is king. Trying to make your fundraising look “nice” is not a great goal! This post first appeared on January 24, 2019.) Bragging about how great your organization is not effective fundraising.

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Black Business Community – Overcoming Challenges to Flourish

GrantNews

From 2019 to 2020, Black-owned businesses grew by 6,351 firms, or 4.72% – behind Latino or Hispanic (8.19%) and Asian American (5.33%) firms, but ahead of white-owned businesses, which shrunk by 0.9%. “) Below is a current list of grants and other funding to benefit Black Business growth and development.

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