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

AUGUST 30, 2023

As we experience an ongoing shift toward equity-centered grantmaking, some foundations are seeking demographic data on their grantees and nonprofit communities to track, measure, and make informed decisions about the diversity within their grantmaking portfolios. Or will the biased side of generative AI become more dominant?

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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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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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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Level up with demographic information. This can take a little more preparation but is critical for some donors and increasingly important for grants. Our Knowledge Base Article can help you collect demographics about your organization. Thanks to all our 2022 donors for making this possible. Want to learn more?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Based on Candid data processed as of October 2023, approximately 78,133 grants valued at $16.8 Particularly, as many foundations have bolstered their efforts to collect demographic data from grantees, have changes in how we collect that data helped address inequitable funding practices and bring about systems transformation?

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When focused on income streams, grants are ranked as the main income stream across all three regions. However, what’s also evident is that nonprofits who shared that their income decreased in the last full financial year are more reliant on grants. In turn, growing nonprofits have a more evenly spread income stream portfolio.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2022

For more insights into important nonprofit trends and key strategies, all driven by data, download The State of Nonprofit Fundraising 2022 report. 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.

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Fundraising Government Demographics Grant Writing 52

Candid

JULY 8, 2024

Foundation program officers and government officials can unintentionally limit the impact of community-based organizations by funding them to serve only a specific demographic group and a narrow set of activities. The fund makes project-specific grants to support nonpartisan efforts to engage members and leaders in voter outreach.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Move beyond basic demographics to understand motivations, interests, and communication preferences. Identify Guaranteed Income: Record the expected income from guaranteed, committed sources such as major gifts , recurring donations , pledges , and grants. For instance, let’s consider a total operating budget of $200,000.

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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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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. The power of small grants and deep listening to fund the unfundable. Heres the data behind these stark realities. What to know about U.S. was Boston Womens Fund.

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Demographics Nonprofit Budget Funding 96

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

The COVID pandemic is often pointed to as a reason that certain silos of giving declined during roughly 2019 through 2022. A demographically representative sample was screened for evangelical beliefs and lack of non-Protestant affiliation. A new survey shows that evangelical giving has not rebounded and continues to plummet.

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