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A $65 Billion Wake-Up Call for Nonprofits—How to Survive the Shift

Center for Major Gifts

The Stark Reality: Individual Giving Has Plummeted Lets break down the numbers: 2021: Individual giving totaled $439.11 billion from 2021. In other words, more than $100 billion less was donated by individuals in 2022 and 2023 combined compared to 2021. Why Was 2021 a High Year for Fundraising? billiona $52.35

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Future-proof your fundraising: 3 ways to thrive long-term

Ann Green's Nonprofit

It’s an especially smart choice now as we begin to see “the Great Wealth Transfer” unfold, with shifting demographic trends resulting in large amounts of saved assets being disbursed to heirs and beneficiaries. Key types of non-cash gifts that should be on nonprofits’ radar include: Grants from donor-advised funds (DAFs).

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How to be efficiently trendy  

Candid

For example, a growth or decrease in individual giving might be vitally important to your nonprofit but totally irrelevant to others (like those primarily funded by government sources.) To help make standardized and centralized demographic data more freely available, Candid launched the Demographics via Candid initiative earlier this year.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities , by ABFE and Candid  For every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average historically Black college and university (HBCU). This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S.

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An open grant report to MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett

Candid

As requested, we are submitting this brief annual letter on our use of these funds. Establish an innovation fund to seed next generation ideas . Please note that 1 and 2 were only green-lighted last month, due to our planned leadership transition in October 2021. The Candid Innovation Fund. Take care of Candid staff .

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. Here's the backstory: In the summer of 2021, over 130 funders shared example grant applications with TAG as part of our involvement in the #FixtheForm campaign with GrantAdvisor.org. Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). Research funding.

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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining two years of giving , by Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) As a follow up to their 2020 and 2021 studies, this report delves into data to explore philanthropic giving from the first two years of the pandemic.