The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kendi in 2020 to found the Center for Antiracist Research and join the faculty as a history professor after his 2019 memoir How to Be an Antiracist, catapulted him to national prominence, Boston University said Tuesday that its initial inquiry into the antiracist research center run by best-selling author and academic Ibram X.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

And 2023 set records in disaster relief funding. The Maui wildfire response The Maui wildfires in August, which affected Lahaina and Kula, stand out for the funds raised. In looking at Candid’s Foundation 1000 research sets, excluding epidemic-related funding, including for the COVID-19 pandemic, these large U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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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Candid

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Do you know how to tap into donor-advised fund (DAF) giving, an increasingly popular way to give, including among younger donors? The basics: What is a donor-advised fund? A DAF is a charitable fund set up by the donor to be managed by an investor at a community foundation or investment firm. How do they work? billion in 2022.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

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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ProposalPRO

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Ever read through a federal Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and exclaim, “What are these people thinking?” These groups have the resources and technical expertise to monitor agencies and quickly mobilize support, helping to ensure that public comment supports their political ends (Yackee, 2019). You wouldn’t be the first.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Kimberly Townsend Pierce, Chester County Hospital Foundation Throw a Brick Bash for Sustainers “Since the launch of the Brick Program in 2019, we have generated thousands of dollars in revenue. You can’t work in the social good sector without being very familiar with the concept of paying it forward. Then pass it on.

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ProposalPRO

AUGUST 1, 2021

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). But does that high ranking mean that your project will be successful?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We’re still waiting on tens of thousands of filings for 2019 iii and about 30% of 2020 filings; collection of 2021 filings has just begun. It is important to remember that organizations typically file tax returns the following year, so FY 2019 (i.e., In contrast, 2019 and 2020 fiscals are lagging at 24 months. We invite all U.S.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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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ProposalPRO

JUNE 30, 2021

2019 , Ginther et al., NIH found that topic selection accounted for 21% of the funding gap between Black and White researchers. NIH also found that scientists who were the most experienced at proposing and implementing grants were also disproportionately more likely to be funded, and to be White. Let me explain.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

When tracked separately, certification data showed [e]that 33% of freelancers have a certification as compared to 9% of grant professionals working as employees (GPA, 2019). Certified Fund Raising Executives Like the GPC, the CFRE set the standard for fundraising professionals worldwide. Why aren't more grant professionals certified?

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2025

While the mean online gift fell slightly to $197, after holding steady just above $200 since 2020, it remains well above the pre-pandemic level of $148 in 2019. Both categories had seen flat or slightly negative growth in 2022 and 2023, following significant growth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. increase in overall giving.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Yet, despite the generosity of donors, the allocation of funds to nonprofits has often lacked consistency, predictability, and equity—factors critical to ensuring long-term impact and sustainability in the sector. Can we predict future giving patterns, and could these predictions lead to more equitable and timely distributions of funds?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Since its inception in 2019, the Beloved Benefit has raised over $24 milliondollars that directly impact communities. But the Beloved Benefit, now under Rodneys leadership at The Same House, doesnt just distribute funds; it creates long-term partnerships among civic leaders, grassroots organizations, and people with corporate expertise.

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Candid

JULY 20, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. We are still a long way away from being where we were economically and socially even in 2019.”

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2025

Volunteer rates are back up but volunteer hours are not According to AmeriCorps, the percentage of Americans aged 16 and up who volunteered with an organization dropped from 30% in 2019 to 23.2% But according to new data released in December 2024, that number climbed back up to 28.3% In 2009, Americans gave 8.1 billion hours in 2017 and 4.1

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Candid

JUNE 29, 2021

Survey participants answered questions about their grantmaking in FY 2019 and FY 2020 along with their plans for giving in FY 2021. Nearly two-thirds of surveyed foundations increased their giving in FY 2020 compared to FY 2019. Still, community foundations may have endowed funds, for which they establish spending policies.

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Candid

JANUARY 22, 2025

Indeed, a recent assessment commissioned by the Fund for Shared Insight found that a growing number of organizations are engaging in listening and feedback practices. And nearly 40,000 nonprofits have shared how they engage constituents in the How We Listen section of their Candid nonprofit profiles since 2019.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Naturally, we were curious to know how grantmakers felt about the use of generative AI in funding applications. Based on data from 59,550 public charities that shared demographic data between July 2019 and January 2024, Candids report The state of diversity in the U.S. by Guy Mika, Candid. Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready?

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Grant'd

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In additions to supporting both pilot and existing programs, Perpetual also offers capacity building and operational funding – an opportunity rarely seen in the grant-making sector! Perpetual Impact Funding is innovative in its approach We’ve all heard of conventional philanthropy, even if not in these exact words.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. They’re transactional by nature and not a good long-term solution for funding. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. Events are a great way to bring like-minded people together and have a good time in the name of your cause. Probably not!)

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

donors gave to nonprofits during 2023, according to data from Giving USA, is a high-water mark in terms of current dollars, and the amount exceeds pre-COVID-19 pandemic-giving, which peaked during 2019. The point is that nonprofit donations are not keeping up with inflation, and that trend cuts across nearly all funding sources.

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Future Fundraising Now

JUNE 20, 2024

Stories are great, brilliant photos are important, timing makes a difference — but if you really want to raise funds, offer is king. This post first appeared on January 24, 2019.) (Yep, I started when I was nine years old!) It’s about donors. Bragging about how great your organization is not effective fundraising.

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GrantNews

MARCH 8, 2024

The team at GrantWatch wants to help our extended community of subscribers and folks everywhere find the funding they need for affordable housing. We aren’t out of the woods yet since rent prices are still 30% higher now than they were in 2019. Funding includes housing and shelter referral. Of course not.

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Candid

JUNE 29, 2023

Overall foundation giving from 2021 to 2022 increased by 3% Among the 557 survey respondents who provided funding data for fiscal year end (FYE) 2021 and 2022, cumulative giving increased from $25.3 From 2015 to 2019, the annual change in grant dollars ranged from a high of 7% in 2017 to less than 0.1%

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I was also interested to learn that 40% of foundation leaders interviewed said they have begun or are increasingly focused on better collecting and using demographic data about nonprofits they fund and the people they serve. Language has power. Not mincing words when it comes to issues like racism is especially critical.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Filing your organization’s annual return is an opportunity to show them that you are a responsible steward of funding and are committed to the mission statement. Misconceptions About IRS 990 Filing Requirements It is a common misconception that because nonprofits are not taxed, they have limited interactions with the IRS.

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GrantNews

AUGUST 7, 2024

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. growth rate.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For the next 700 words, I invite you to remember the disaster events that occurred in 2019, just months before the pandemic outbreak. . In 2019, millions of people around the world were affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. Foundations and public charities funded $352 million for disasters and humanitarian crises. .

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DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Despite being grouped under the same umbrella, these watchdogs have distinct missions, operate differently, and can impact your ability to raise necessary funds in various ways. Candid (GuideStar) Candid was formed in 2019 through the merger of GuideStar and the Foundation Center. Who Are the Recognized Charity Watchdogs?

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Read the report to discover how COVID-19-related funding flowed in 2021 compared to 2020 and learn why today’s funders will be key to philanthropy’s long-term recovery from the pandemic. . Read this report to see how funding to support human rights has increased and why this points to several surprising and hopeful trends for the future.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2022

Black-led organizations receive only 1% of philanthropic funding. To disrupt this system of philanthropic racism, we are intentionally leveraging the GuideStar tool and receiving funding as a result. Meme: In 2019, we used the CARE Model to launch the award-winning Innocence Initiative.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

federal agencies, donor-advised funds, and giving platforms. In the annual disaster philanthropy report, we tracked nearly $37 million in wildfire funding to date in 2020 by institutional philanthropy. million in funding was identified for this crisis in 2020 by foundations and public charities. Syrian refugee crisis.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 19, 2019

Senior Manager, Social Impact & The Explore Fund, The North Face (Denver) 2. Good news: Mary Meeker's much anticipated Internet Trends 2019 is here! Bonus read: Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends Report: 16 Takeaways for Nonprofits. Focus on warm leads, not cold. We all need to learn to use data for our storytelling.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

And your plan will give you a reality check to hold back when you are tempted to barrel ahead with a new program before you have fully figured out the funding for it. If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Can you do it? Or enough data.

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Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

of total giving in 2019). Easily create branded pages for virtual, live, and hybrid events Collect registration, sponsor, and bidder information Engage virtual and in-person guests with a powerful bidding experience Raise additional funds with raffle tickets, fund-a-need items, and drink sales. What is a fundraising CRM?

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