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  • How Funders Can Navigate Demographic Data Collection, Analysis, and Sharing

    Candid Jun 25, 2024

    Candid insights | Take this free course to learn about demographic data dos and don’ts based on funders’ real-world lessons and best practices for collecting, analyzing, and using this information in grantmaking.

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  • 2022 Resource Tracking Report: LGBTQ Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations

    Funders for LGBTQ Issues Jun 25, 2024

    We are pleased to share the 2022 Resource Tracking Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations. This 20th edition of the annual tracking report builds…

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  • Funding Youth Mental Health Programs for Children

    Alliance Magazine Jun 24, 2024

    ‘Catch it early, catch it upstream’. When it comes to mental health issues in children, this phrase holds greater resonance.Historically, mental health issues have been tackled reactively as they emerge in individuals and communities, ……

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  • More Lean Funders Should Consider General Operating Support

    Exponent Philanthropy Jun 24, 2024

    When funders give general operating support, they help sustain a nonprofit’s mission rather than specific projects. Nonprofits can use these funds to improve their organization in any way they choose,…

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  • Donor-advised Fund Data Doesn’t Depict Reality

    Inequality Jun 22, 2024

    Publishers of donor-advised fund data are including hundreds of thousands of workplace giving accounts in their averages. That skews the picture.

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  • What the $25 Billion Given by the Biggest U.S. Donors in 2020 Says About High-dollar Charity

    The Conversation Jun 22, 2024

    Editor’s note: According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity in 2020 committed to giving a total of US$24.7 billion to hospitals, homeless…

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  • More Lean Funders Should Consider General Operating Support

    Exponent Philanthropy Jun 21, 2024

    When funders give general operating support, they help sustain a nonprofit’s mission rather than specific projects. Nonprofits can use these funds to improve their organization in any way they choose,…

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  • The Power of Community-driven Models

    Nonprofit Quarterly Jun 21, 2024

    Our greatest barrier is the scarcity of money. Or so we have been told. Charitable giving had a record-breaking year in 2020 at $471.44 billion. Yet, in 2021, but for the notable…

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  • Tools for Understanding and Cultivating Philanthropy in the South

    Alliance Magazine Jun 21, 2024

    Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South is a bit like the arrival of a letter you knew must be on its way, but took a long time to get there. The editors have put together ……

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  • The Challenges and Benefits of Funders Fundraising

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jun 21, 2024

    More and more funders are adding a feature to their strategy: explicitly soliciting funding from their peers to amplify their own work.

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  • Nonprofit Volunteer Recruitment Strategies

    Forbes Jun 20, 2024

    Finding opportunities to engage with various groups of people can provide a nonprofit with a steady pipeline of volunteers.

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  • Funders: Let’s Stop Making Nonprofits Choose Between Balanced Budgets and Burnout

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Jun 19, 2024

    As I read the recent Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) report on the state of nonprofits, a familiar feeling settled in. The invisible lines between the findings began to form, and…

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