Candid

JUNE 9, 2025

In the “Map,” “Trends,” and “Subjects” tabs, you can explore funding patterns by state from 2019 to 2023. In the “Map” tab of either dashboard, you can easily see which states are awarding or receiving the most—and least—foundation funding for each year between 2019 and 2023, over multiple years, or for the entire five-year period.

Funding

Future Fundraising Now

MARCH 6, 2025

I was talking to a fundraiser for a medical charity about how they talk to their donors. And fundraising wasn’t going very well. This post first appeared on March 20, 2019.) They had a pretty amazing advantage: A large majority of their donors had close personal connection with the disease the charity was focused on.

Fundraising

Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Since its inception in 2019, the Beloved Benefit has raised over $24 milliondollars that directly impact communities. Friend-raise before you fundraise Trust is the foundation of any partnership, and building trust takes time. When fundraising for the Beloved Benefit, we didnt just ask businesses to write a check.

Pass-Through

Future Fundraising Now

DECEMBER 19, 2024

One chapter especially got me thinking about fundraising messages. I’m showing some of them here, because they can teach us something about opening lines in fundraising. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut This can be a good way to open a fundraising message: Tell the reader exactly what’s going on.

Fundraising

Future Fundraising Now

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But I do have a problem with the way his pyramid is often interpreted in fundraising. I can’t count how many times a Psych 101-educated fundraiser has told me that the “low” levels on the pyramid are in some way less important, less worthy, even less moral than the “high” needs at the top.

Readiness

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% The 2024 campaign was not just a fundraising effort; it was a movement that reinforced the bond between employees, students, and the Foundation.

Education

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

These unrestricted gifts are necessary to pay fundraisers’ salaries, overhead, bills, and the supplies for your tried-and-true programs. How Is Annual Giving Different from Other Fundraising Types? Let’s take a look at annual giving compared to other fundraising types like major gifts or planned gifts.

Donation

Future Fundraising Now

MAY 15, 2025

Donor complaints rule the lives of many fundraisers, a fact that is captured by the 5th Law of Fundraising: Donor complaints are a stronger force than anything described in physics or quantum mechanics. The possibility can cause sweeping and often destructive decisions about fundraising. More Laws of Fundraising here.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 24, 2025

Non-cash giving remains a lucrative fundraising opportunity. Karen has received WITs Woman of the Year Award and was listed as one of Salesforces 10 Small Business Women Who Inspire in 2019. Finally, the sustained popularity of DAFs suggests that non-traditional and non-cash giving methods are here to stay in the nonprofit sector.

Funding

Candid

APRIL 15, 2025

uptick in individual giving last year, based on data from a sample of 8,674 organizations with over $55 billion in total fundraising revenue. billion in online fundraising revenue) rose 2.2%. In fall 2023, 53% of surveyed fundraisers predicted fundraising revenue would increase in 2024, and it appears their optimism was warranted.

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

DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When it comes to charity watchdogs, these four organizations are the most widely recognized and trusted in the nonprofit sector: Candid (formerly GuideStar) Charity Navigator BBB Wise Giving Alliance GreatNonprofits Let’s briefly describe each charity watchdog, examine their key features, and consider their impact on fundraising.

Finance

Candid

JULY 16, 2025

As of 2023, seven of the 16 indicators had improved since 2019, but six had worsened. While down slightly from 17% in 2019, the child poverty rate was unchanged from 2022 at 16%—or nearly 11.5 One in four (25%) children had parents without secure employment, though down from 26% in 2019. In 2023, 16% of children in the U.S.

Insurance

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. The money that keeps everything going, including the stuff donors just aren’t into, like staff salaries, the electricity bill, and the cost of fundraising itself. It’s urgent and timely.

Fundraising

Future Fundraising Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

This post first appeared on February 13, 2019.) This picture tells us more about whats really going on with a donor file. The pyramid is okay but only tells you a couple of things you can act on.

IT

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Between December 2017 and December 2023, the portion of participants who highly trust charities fluctuated between 16.8% (December 2019) and 22.1% (December 2023). Taylor believes these donors are more likely to engage with, contribute to, and promote charities, he explained. For example, 52.9% of Matures. For example, 27.6%

Media

Future Fundraising Now

APRIL 9, 2025

This post first appeared on April 10, 2019.) They give because they can see with their hearts as well as their minds, that your values align with theirs and that your organization is a great channel for their personal mission for changing the world.

Nonprofit

Future Fundraising Now

MARCH 13, 2025

It was back when I worked at a large national fundraising agency. This post first appeared on April 12, 2019.) I had a wild idea. Wild ideas are our best and our worst moments. I’d recently made the move from copywriter to creative director, which means I had frontline role in new business pitches. And we were pitching a doozy.

Budget

Pamela Grow

APRIL 15, 2021

Are your donors creating Facebook Fundraisers on your behalf? When it comes to social media, I’m hearing from small shop fundraisers who are exhausted from the never-ending posting. How are you empowering your donors to fundraise on your behalf on Facebook? My mantra, always, is “focus on what you can control.”.

Fundraising

Candid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are the fastest-growing giving vehicle today, and DAF donors are bucking the downward trend in donor participation , according to the 2024 DAF Fundraising Report. in 2019 to 12% in 2023. Here are five significant findings: 1. million total donors.

Fundraising

Qgiv

JULY 12, 2021

It’s nice to talk about fundraising in the abstract and offer up best practices and tips for making the most of your fundraising techniques and tactics. Having said that, we’ve taken a look at some fundraising statistics that we think are very interesting and deserve to be brought to your attention. 12% said animals.

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

MARCH 26, 2021

Fundraising. URGENCY: Fundraising’s Double Edge – The Agitator. Our friends at the Agitator/DonorVoice with news on the postal front that could affect your spring fundraising campaign. The Issue of Racism in the Fundraising Profession from Birgit Smith Burton. Nonprofit Donor Newsletters, Print or Enews?

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

APRIL 22, 2021

You’ll see why I’ve been recommending this book, our April book drawing, to clients, colleagues, and subscribers.

Consulting

Capital Campaign Pro

JUNE 17, 2024

To celebrate Juneteenth, we’ve assembled this list of resources for Black-Led nonprofits and African American fundraising professionals. Resources for Black Fundraisers and Black-Led Nonprofits According to Candid’s The state of diversity in the U.S.

Demographics

NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

America’s top 30 peer-to-peer fundraising programs raised $1.05 Though the top 30 programs reached a notable milestone in its second year of continued growth, that figure still lags behind 2019’s $1.37 billion in 2022, according to the Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum’s annual study. drop in revenue in 2020.

Fundraising

Fundraising HayDay

MARCH 8, 2019

Season 1, BONUS Episode of the Fundraising HayDay Podcast. March 8, 2019, is International Grant Professionals Day (IGPD). Season 1, BONUS Episode of the Fundraising HayDay Podcast. Season 1, BONUS Episode of the Fundraising HayDay Podcast. March 8, 2019, is International Grant Professionals Day (IGPD).

Grant

Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

There’s a lot of fundraising software available to nonprofits, but how do you know what your nonprofit needs? And what’s the difference between a fundraising CRM and a fundraising platform? This blog post will break down what a fundraising CRM is, what a fundraising platform is, and the key differences between them.

CRM

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. Since the organization is limited due to only having a Chief Development Officer, additional outsourced support was requested to expand its reach into new fundraising areas.

SAMHSA

Penelope Burk

AUGUST 3, 2021

Should fundraisers and not-for-profit decision-makers be concerned? It’s Money that Matters The job of fundraisers is to make more money and they have consistently accomplished that for the last forty years. Fundraisers can bring in more money OR more donors, but not both. No, because they have bigger fish to fry. million [4].

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 28, 2021

in new recurring donors compared to 2019! In 2020 there was an astonishing increase of 76.8% If you’ve been waffling on making monthly giving the priority it needs to be, what are you waiting for?

Fundraising

Future Fundraising Now

JUNE 20, 2024

I just realized that some time late last year, I hit the 35-year mark as a fundraiser. As a belated celebration, here are some of the things I’ve learned over those three and a half decades: Fundraising is not about you. Bragging about how great your organization is not effective fundraising. It’s about donors.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Some fundraising events are huge, drawing attendees and sponsors like moths to a flame. You can raise money with all kinds of fundraising events like parties, galas, sporting events, concerts… and the list goes on and on. BUT the flip side?

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork.

Fundraising

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Drove Fundraising Success. “We

Mentor

NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Blackbaud Institute has released its 2021 Charitable Giving Report, one of the most credible resources on fundraising performance in the social good community. The report finds online giving has grown a substantial 42% since 2019.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

JUNE 9, 2021

Hosting a fundraiser is similar to leading a band. But what happens when an unexpected event, like the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, shuts down your event only a few weeks before your biggest fundraiser of the year? The entire fundraiser brought in nearly as much money their 2019 event, with fewer expenses and a broader audience.

Fundraising

Selfish Giving

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some of my favorites are Aubrey Bergauer (marketing for symphonies), Rand Fishkin (digital marketing and SEO) and Tom Ahern (fundraising word master). If you're on Twitter and are interested in sharing and learning in 2019, follow me at @JoeWaters. A few more suggestions if you want to join me on Twitter in 2019: 1.

Media