Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Kimberly Townsend Pierce, Chester County Hospital Foundation Throw a Brick Bash for Sustainers “Since the launch of the Brick Program in 2019, we have generated thousands of dollars in revenue. You can’t work in the social good sector without being very familiar with the concept of paying it forward. Then pass it on.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MAY 28, 2025

From 2011 to 2019, employee donor participation steadily increased , reaching its peak in 2019. However, after 2019, the WSU Tech Foundation experienced an average decline of 9.5% A major milestone of the 2024 campaign was the creation of the Employee Hardship Fund. in donors each year.

Education

Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Naturally, we were curious to know how grantmakers felt about the use of generative AI in funding applications. Based on data from 59,550 public charities that shared demographic data between July 2019 and January 2024, Candids report The state of diversity in the U.S. by Guy Mika, Candid. Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready?

AI

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

Candid

APRIL 15, 2025

While the mean online gift fell slightly to $197, after holding steady just above $200 since 2020, it remains well above the pre-pandemic level of $148 in 2019. Both categories had seen flat or slightly negative growth in 2022 and 2023, following significant growth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. increase in overall giving.

Policies

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

When tracked separately, certification data showed [e]that 33% of freelancers have a certification as compared to 9% of grant professionals working as employees (GPA, 2019). Certified Fund Raising Executives Like the GPC, the CFRE set the standard for fundraising professionals worldwide. Why aren't more grant professionals certified?

Grant Writing

Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Yet, despite the generosity of donors, the allocation of funds to nonprofits has often lacked consistency, predictability, and equity—factors critical to ensuring long-term impact and sustainability in the sector. Can we predict future giving patterns, and could these predictions lead to more equitable and timely distributions of funds?

Funding

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Foundation Source , a cloud-based platform than manages family, corporate and professionally staffed foundations, acquired Vennfi, the financial technology company powering Charityvest, a donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsor. Charityvest will continue to operate as a separate, independent entity, managed by its own board of directors.

Management

Candid

AUGUST 7, 2025

The CEO of a small workforce development board that primarily received federal funding through the state agency told us he used the report to recommend raises. For example, this year’s data shows median CEO compensation rose from $97,000 in 2019 to $110,000 in 2023—a modest increase over five years.

Consulting

DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Despite being grouped under the same umbrella, these watchdogs have distinct missions, operate differently, and can impact your ability to raise necessary funds in various ways. Candid (GuideStar) Candid was formed in 2019 through the merger of GuideStar and the Foundation Center. Who Are the Recognized Charity Watchdogs?

Finance

Candid

APRIL 14, 2025

Volunteer rates are back up but volunteer hours are not According to AmeriCorps, the percentage of Americans aged 16 and up who volunteered with an organization dropped from 30% in 2019 to 23.2% But according to new data released in December 2024, that number climbed back up to 28.3% In 2009, Americans gave 8.1 billion hours in 2017 and 4.1

Media

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The bill aims to ameliorate the complex nature of the grant application process, as well as the lack of transparency and accountability around funding decision processes, which are currently opaque at best. The Grants Transparency Act complements the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act passed in 2019.

Federal Grants

Candid

JANUARY 22, 2025

Indeed, a recent assessment commissioned by the Fund for Shared Insight found that a growing number of organizations are engaging in listening and feedback practices. And nearly 40,000 nonprofits have shared how they engage constituents in the How We Listen section of their Candid nonprofit profiles since 2019.

Goals

Future Fundraising Now

JUNE 12, 2025

A lot of fundraisers feel caught in a trap: We are required to raise unrestricted (or undesignated) funds most or all of the time. But specificity looks like restricted funds! There are two main (and very different) policies about this: We are raising unrestricted funds. Good news: It’s possible to do both!

Fundraising

Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

If you’re reading this, you probably already know about the problems that nonprofits like yours are facing with their insurance: Rising insurance premiums, poor coverage from commercial insurance carriers, and in some cases, the loss of coverage altogether. Many of these nonprofits have never made a claim. The answer is fourfold.

Insurance

Bonterra

JULY 16, 2025

CSR fun fact: Since 2019, HP has used over 1 billion pounds of recycled materials in their products and packaging. Through environmental funds, Disney has protected thousands of wildlife species and habitats. In fact, 79% of Gen Z and 81% of millennials say businesses must do more to help consumers make sustainable purchasing choices.

Ethics

Future Fundraising Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Your website may have duties other than raising funds. It’s even possible that those duties are more important than raising funds — like ticket sales for arts organization, or patient services for health organizations. This post first appeared on April 10, 2019.) But that doesn’t really matter, does it?

Nonprofit

Candid

MAY 12, 2021

To date, there are still millions of returns from 2019 that have not yet been processed. (Our How has funding for Black communities changed since George Floyd’s murder?” COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, especially for 2019 and 2020 data. This year, another factor is in play: backlogs created by COVID-19.

Grant

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Last year many arts and culture nonprofits struggling to cope with closures and restrictions in the wake of COVID-19 were able to take advantage of multiple relief grants and funding, chief among them funds made available through the CARE Act and forgivable loans that were part of the Paycheck Protection Program (known as ‘PPP’).

Funding

Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. federal government, corporations, and donations through donor-advised funds (DAFs) and online platforms. . We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . In it, we examined?available?2019?data

Award

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. What Are Restricted Funds? Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

Funding

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kendi in 2020 to found the Center for Antiracist Research and join the faculty as a history professor after his 2019 memoir How to Be an Antiracist, catapulted him to national prominence, Boston University said Tuesday that its initial inquiry into the antiracist research center run by best-selling author and academic Ibram X.

Management

RBW Strategy

MAY 14, 2024

Challenge RBW Strategy first partnered with 2019 to support a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant application. RBW Strategy’s support has led to additional new grant awards with an expanded number of funders, as well as additional federal grants since the original SAMHSA collaboration back in 2019.

SAMHSA

Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

And 2023 set records in disaster relief funding. The Maui wildfire response The Maui wildfires in August, which affected Lahaina and Kula, stand out for the funds raised. In looking at Candid’s Foundation 1000 research sets, excluding epidemic-related funding, including for the COVID-19 pandemic, these large U.S.

IT

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. And while there are times and places for these reports, storytelling for nonprofits to raise funds is not the time or the place. Plus, if you don’t ask, people may not know you need funds.

Funding

Candid

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Do you know how to tap into donor-advised fund (DAF) giving, an increasingly popular way to give, including among younger donors? The basics: What is a donor-advised fund? A DAF is a charitable fund set up by the donor to be managed by an investor at a community foundation or investment firm. How do they work? billion in 2022.

Funding

Candid

MAY 9, 2023

Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. Big philanthropy’s support of HBCUs declined from 2002 to 2019 An examination of trends in philanthropic giving to HBCUs underscores a history of underfunding. In fact, large U.S.

Education

ProposalPRO

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Ever read through a federal Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and exclaim, “What are these people thinking?” These groups have the resources and technical expertise to monitor agencies and quickly mobilize support, helping to ensure that public comment supports their political ends (Yackee, 2019). You wouldn’t be the first.

Federal Grants

ProposalPRO

AUGUST 1, 2021

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). But does that high ranking mean that your project will be successful?

Grant

Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We’re still waiting on tens of thousands of filings for 2019 iii and about 30% of 2020 filings; collection of 2021 filings has just begun. It is important to remember that organizations typically file tax returns the following year, so FY 2019 (i.e., In contrast, 2019 and 2020 fiscals are lagging at 24 months. We invite all U.S.

Electronics

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019, Lever for Change spun off from the MacArthur Foundation as a separate organization with an eye-popping goal: to drive $1 billion in philanthropic funding over four years to promising nonprofits.

Grant

ProposalPRO

JUNE 30, 2021

2019 , Ginther et al., NIH found that topic selection accounted for 21% of the funding gap between Black and White researchers. NIH also found that scientists who were the most experienced at proposing and implementing grants were also disproportionately more likely to be funded, and to be White. Let me explain.

Federal Grants

Candid

JULY 20, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. We are still a long way away from being where we were economically and socially even in 2019.”

Transportation

Candid

JUNE 29, 2021

Survey participants answered questions about their grantmaking in FY 2019 and FY 2020 along with their plans for giving in FY 2021. Nearly two-thirds of surveyed foundations increased their giving in FY 2020 compared to FY 2019. Still, community foundations may have endowed funds, for which they establish spending policies.

Award

GrantNews

MARCH 8, 2024

The team at GrantWatch wants to help our extended community of subscribers and folks everywhere find the funding they need for affordable housing. We aren’t out of the woods yet since rent prices are still 30% higher now than they were in 2019. Funding includes housing and shelter referral. Of course not.

Grant

Grant'd

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In additions to supporting both pilot and existing programs, Perpetual also offers capacity building and operational funding – an opportunity rarely seen in the grant-making sector! Perpetual Impact Funding is innovative in its approach We’ve all heard of conventional philanthropy, even if not in these exact words.

Funding

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. They’re transactional by nature and not a good long-term solution for funding. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. Events are a great way to bring like-minded people together and have a good time in the name of your cause. Probably not!)

Fundraising