Candid

JUNE 8, 2021

According to a 2018 NTEN Study , 80 percent of nonprofits lack a policy to address cyberattacks. If you are a nonprofit organization, IT support is more than just a luxury. It's mission-critical. As the world becomes increasingly technologically advanced, it is not enough to have an up-to-date website and social media presence.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This exploitation mirrors the actions of the defendants in this case, who leveraged the catastrophic 2010 Haiti earthquake, and several subsequent earthquakes, and other natural disasters occurring in 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2023, to raise over five-hundred millions of dollars in donations, purportedly for relief efforts in Haiti.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 17, 2023

million for research on amyloidosis, and a survivor of the Camp Fire in 2018 left $1.7 Prest Abilene Christian University Kay Onstead gave $25 million to endow the Robert and Kay Onstead College of Science and Engineering at Abilene Christian University. Also, Florida Atlantic University received $11.5

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It’s not too early to start thinking about your public relations strategy for 2018. Below are three trends that should be on your list to implement in 2018. Below are three trends that should be on your list to implement in 2018. In 2018, your company’s PR is going to be more important than ever.

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

And the rate at which we’re receiving 2019 filings has slowed, compared with 2018 filings (and 2018 was somewhat slower than 2017). As of April 2021, we’ve collected 348,330 filings for 2019, about half of what we expect to collect overall and 37 percent fewer than we had at the same point last year for fiscal year 2018. [1].

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 12, 2018

If you’d like to accept payments directly through your Wild Apricot website without having to send members to a third-party payment processor, stay tuned — Wild Apricot is launching its very own payment processor, Wild Apricot Payments, on March 12, 2018.

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Candid

JULY 21, 2021

The latest report, Advancing Human Rights: Annual Review of Global Foundation Grantmaking—2018 Key Findings, provides a new analysis of the human rights funding landscape. In the wake of recent events—a pandemic, worldwide protests, elections—2018 may feel like a world away. Key Findings . We documented $3.7

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It would be the first year since 2018 that the value of grants from its donor-advised funds exceeded the value of investments going into the funds. By Glenn Gamboa, AP Business Writer.

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Candid

JULY 30, 2021

million full- and part-time employees of Walmart and Sam's Club—known as associates at Walmart—will be eligible to earn college degrees or learn trade skills without the burden of education debt, and the $1 daily fee that was part of the program since its launch in 2018 will be eliminated as of August 16. Through the program, 1.5

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Penelope Burk

AUGUST 3, 2021

There’s some buzz around the decline in the number of American households who give to charity, or at least the number who gave in 2018, which is the year that was studied. Should fundraisers and not-for-profit decision-makers be concerned? No, because they have bigger fish to fry. million [4]. You can’t argue with their logic.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Here's a sneak peak at what you'll be able to do with our new Online Store feature once it launches on April 3, 2018.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Currently, we have a critical mass of filings for 2017–2018. For 2017 and 2018 fiscals, we’d received most filings after 24 months. Currently, we only have about 76% of 2019 filings (compared to 2017/2018 numbers.). Additionally, the IRS is undergoing 990s process changes. Isn’t this the same old story? Rapid response pages.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This year’s report found that most of the trends observed in 2018 continued in 2019, including steady growth in median executive compensation. Median compensation for CEOs decreased for all but the highest and lowest budget bands from 2018 to 2019. This has risen gradually, year-over-year, from $106K in 2015 to $121K in 2019. .

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Barr Foundation thought it had a perfect plan to modernize Boston’s bus system — until it faced unanticipated roadblocks. By Lisa Jacobson BostonBRT A redecorated and redesigned bus stop in Everett, Mass. The Barr Foundation thought it had a perfect plan to modernize Boston’s bus system — until it faced unanticipated roadblocks.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 13, 2024

According to the organization’s annual report for 2018 – the first year girls were accepted into the organization – the “BSA Family” consisted of slightly more than 1.23 According to the organization’s Consolidated Statement of Financial Position for 2018, BSA had total assets of just more than $1.56 million in gift annuities.

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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A 2018 study found that writing a to-do list can reduce the time it takes to fall asleep. Tips to Boost Your Performance as a Grant Writer 1. Plan Your Day Ahead Plan your tasks the night before to improve focus and even sleep quality. Creating a plan also helps reduce stress and improves the odds of completing tasks.

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Blackbaud

JULY 19, 2024

Dataro’s Data Pool found that only 4% of donors who qualified as middle donors in 2018 (giving between $500 and $5,000 cumulatively in 12 months) became major donors in the next five years. According to Dataro’s Data Pool, the same cohort of first-time midlevel donors gave 9x more than standard-value donors from 2018–2023.

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Candid

JANUARY 22, 2025

And nearly 40,000 nonprofits have shared how they engage constituents in the How We Listen section of their Candid nonprofit profiles since 2019. Since then, important new evidence has bolstered our collective understanding about what these practices entail. Share your reflections with your colleagues (and your funders or grantees).

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 30, 2024

I attended bbcon for the first time in 2018 and have returned at every chance. Because it’s worth it. The conference consistently delivers value – insights you won’t find anywhere else, connections with Blackbaud users from around the world, and opportunities to advance your career as a nonprofit professional. moment, a new realization.

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HSF House

AUGUST 8, 2024

Finally, in the 2018 Zhai et al. A 2018 study, Shagaleh et al, further studies how biological cellulose, including cellulose nanofibers, can be used to synthesize other carbohydrate-based polymers (polysaccharides) that can be used as medicines and health-screening devices. 2, 2018, pp. Another research paper, Zhang et al.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. My colleagues and I randomly chose 200 U.S.-based

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AmpliFund

MARCH 13, 2024

Dan Holtz, CGMS, LSSGB Director of Implementation Services Formerly a financial analyst with the Department of Defense, Dan brought his experience aligning systems and processes with the requirements of federal programs to AmpliFund in 2018. What was the impact? Do you have the documentation to prove this?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

households donated to a charity in 2018,” according to a study released Tuesday. percent in 2018, the latest year with comprehensive figures from those households.”. We’ve lost half of the households who formerly gave to charity, as long ago as 2018. households donated to a charitable organization. That number dropped to 49.6

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Candid

JULY 26, 2022

The overhead myth can lead to supporters who are hesitant to give , whether one-time donors, monthly givers , or grant funders. And, it can make organizations feel the need to limit their operating expenses to a detrimental degree. It’s been said before, and I’ll say it again: it’s time to disprove the overhead myth for nonprofits.

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Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We experimented with a mini-website for our 2018 report, but it was almost equally time-consuming and costly. Here we share how we turned an expensive print piece into a simple, online PDF with multi-purpose content to maximize the return on our investment. Do you have to produce an annual report? made it easy to reconsider.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 15, 2021

According to a 2 “The Missing Middle” study from 2014 and 2018, around 20 different organizations studied their mid-level donor engagement and found only 12% of their contributions for the year came from mid-level donor tiers. Ryan Strawhecker, incoming President, Paul J. Strawhecker, Inc. Ryan is the incoming President for Paul J.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

And it’s here to stay. . To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new. Over the past few years, however, this practice of ceding decision-making power about grants to communities has been gaining wider traction. It has provided an amazing space to uplift voices in philanthropy that don’t often fall under the spotlight.

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Future Fundraising Now

AUGUST 8, 2024

This post first appeared on October 30, 2018.) Here’s what fundraising and giving looks like to us fundraisers: We think we are leading an army of “our” donors in the great work that our organizations are doing. It’s almost exactly opposite. Her action. Her values. Her mission.

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ProposalPRO

AUGUST 1, 2021

Links [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Global State of Peer Review (2018). Perhaps most concerning, Johnson (2008) found that reviewer bias affected as much as a quarter of funding decisions. What other options are there? Several have been suggested, used, and even tested. link] [link]

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Future Fundraising Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This post first appeared on October 25, 2018.) And I’m quite sure I’ve seen this before a number of times, but with a key difference: It has been a “normal” envelope color, a light brown we usually call manila. Now it’s shockingly, almost sickeningly, bright green! Who does that? And why are they doing this?

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AmpliFund

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Dan Holtz, CGMS, LSSGB Director of Implementation Services Formerly a financial analyst with the Department of Defense, Dan brought his experience aligning systems and processes with the requirements of federal programs to AmpliFund in 2018. Implementing a strong set of internal controls is critical to effectively manage grants.

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Gail Perry Group

MAY 9, 2024

From 2018 to 2022, the average nonprofit saw a 127% increase in the number of recurring donors in their databases. Those concerns are valid, but here’s a data point that may help: From 2018 to 2022, 50% of the 111,000+ recurring donors in our data set made additional gifts to their favorite nonprofits.

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Future Fundraising Now

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This post first appeared on December 7, 2018.) I’m going to show you a paragraph from a direct mail appeal that directly harms the effectiveness of the piece it’s in. You might say, I see paragraphs like that in fundraising constantly! And you’d be right. You also might say It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to say.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

This trend, however, was reversed in 2018 and 2019, when the proportion of general operating support funding increased significantly for HBCUs but not for the other higher education institutions. This change was solely due to one large HBCU funder, The Duke Endowment, and affected only one HBCU, Johnson C.

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Future Fundraising Now

MARCH 28, 2024

Being able to filibuster at a meeting or write staggeringly long emails marked you as a winner. The content of what you had to say wasn’t as important as word count. It was the best path to a vice presidency (and this company had a lot of VPs). When you incentivize something, people tend to pursue it. And there’s a problem with that.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

What’s in store for 2018 for Albright painting and Paint It Forward ? Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Josh Abramson , Founder & Chief Solutionist at ALLBRiGHT 1-800-PAINTING , about Paint It Forward , a charity paint program that gives back to the local community. What inspired you to start this program?

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 16, 2018

As we head into the fourth quarter of 2018, one can’t help but to look back at what a year it was! Let’s reflect: It was only a little over a year ago that Hurricane Harvey slammed the Texas coast inflicting a record-setting $125 billion in damage to the area. What issues should corporate America get involved in?

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