Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

To build trust and prioritize community voices, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Community Fund adopted a participatory grantmaking practice in 2021 and 2022. This case study illustrates the outcomes they achieved by directly engaging community members in their grant funding decision-making process.

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Candid

JULY 15, 2024

Early evidence suggests that many funders have stayed the course, especially in the areas of grant reporting requirements, funding restrictions, and proposal processes. based funders whose grantees we surveyed before the pandemic and again in 2021 or 2022. However, there remain areas to monitor for additional progress.

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Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

Each organization represented an active participant in our growing community of nearly 150 Demographics via Candid partners who have joined us to create more efficient, equitable, and effective grantmaking processes. Demographics via Candid also provided the company with reliable data sources to support deeper analysis.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 17, 2024

With increased focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in recent years, more funders are asking for the specific demographics of the populations served by nonprofits. While there are many challenges in reporting demographic data, understanding and communicating the differences in race, ethnicity, and nationality is the first step.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 7, 2023

The world of grant writing has evolved with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. AI-based language models such as ChatGPT have been assisting grant writers with their tasks, making the process more efficient and effective. These limitations include: 1.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 1, 2023

Grant applications often ask for racial demographics of board, staff, and clients as well as LGBTQ+, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disabilities, age, etc. 2 It may be helpful to point this out in your grant applications. Representation falls short of community demographics. In 19 states, it’s under 5%.

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

With increased focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in recent years, more funders are asking for the specific demographics of the populations served by nonprofits. While there are many challenges in reporting demographic data, understanding and communicating the differences in race, ethnicity, and nationality is the first step.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In June 2021, we released a post about using inclusive language in grants. Knowing how to express ideas using inclusive language is especially important for grant writers. Why is inclusive language important in grant writing? The post Using inclusive language in grants appeared first on Grant Writing Made Easy.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2022

Getting a government grant requires a huge amount of effort in research and grant-writing, and these programs often have long waiting periods, making it difficult to budget around them. Worse, the likelihood of receiving a grant is low with so many other nonprofits in need applying at the same time. What’s a hybrid event ?

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WT Grant Foundation

JULY 13, 2023

Too often, scholars with expertise in race and gender find in hindsight that membership on a grant team was not an invitation to actively contribute to or shape the research project but done so to merely signal the demographic or intellectual diversity of the team to potential funders. Grant Foundation. 2 Small, Mario L.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

While that may sound like a lot, it still has not recovered to match inflation from donation highs in 2021. Relying too heavily on grants Every fundraiser who has received a grant knows how incredible these gifts are. However, some grants come with a lot of expectations, and there’s no guarantee you’ll keep receiving that grant.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Despite annual donations decreasing the 2023 CauseVox Giving Study found that individuals, especially the younger demographic, remain steadfast in their commitment to philanthropic endeavors. Get A Matching Grant One of the top-performing GivingTuesday fundraising ideas and best practices is having a matching gift in place.

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Candid

JANUARY 16, 2024

Full disclosure: I’m biased in favor of nonprofits on the subject of grant applications and reporting. Over the last decade, I’ve watched an increasing number of current and prospective funders require demographic data as part of their grant application processes. Let’s dig in to why.

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Fundly

MAY 18, 2021

For example, if your donor base tends to skew towards an older demographic, you might appeal to them with a direct mail or fundraising letter campaign. Google Ad Grants Google empowers nonprofits to amplify their causes through its Ad Grants program. That’s why many organizations turn to Google Grant agencies.

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Candid

DECEMBER 24, 2024

To find out, at the start of the Giving Season we ran a LinkedIn poll , with three choicesmore unrestricted funding, less paperwork for grants, and to reduce burnoutplus a write-in option. Simplify the grant application. And if the paperwork requirements cant be reduced, can nonprofits use generative AI for grant writing?

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Candid

MARCH 19, 2025

nonprofit sector demographics. According to demographic data shared on Candid profiles , 69% of all nonprofit staff and 62% of nonprofit leaders identify as women. For 2021, it was March 15 for women in the U.S The power of small grants and deep listening to fund the unfundable. What to know about U.S. Today is U.S.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Not only are fewer evangelicals giving, but those who are still giving are donating less than in 2021. This is down 15% from an inflation-adjusted average of $2,953 in 2021. A demographically representative sample was screened for evangelical beliefs and lack of non-Protestant affiliation.

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Tom Ahern

AUGUST 7, 2023

On May 2nd, 2021, Simone Joyaux died; her brain exploded, thanks to CAA. If the Pilchers are typical for this community (which they are; I checked local demographics), they are a great example of what this community is doing to keep its local library healthy, vibrant, relevant, furiously active! CAA is not uncommon over a certain age.

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