Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. The first program is Mary’s Pence Grants , which funds women-led grassroots organizations in the U.S.

Mentor

Candid

MARCH 11, 2025

Since late 2023, weve been talking with community members about how, together, we could make Kansas City a national model for equitable economic mobility. Two significant gaps became evident that we saw as two sides of the same coin: Nonprofits dont often have space to truly think about their strengths and sustainability.

Nonprofit

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. The beta version was started during early 2023 and the 1.0 We couldn’t be happier.”

AI

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 29, 2025

Insights from the Latest GPA Survey The Grants Professional Association (GPA) is committed to fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive grants profession. To better understand the perspectives of our members and guide future initiatives, GPA conducted comprehensive DEI surveys in both 2023 and 2025.

Grants

Candid

JUNE 9, 2025

Foundations award billions of dollars in grants across the United States each year. Now, with Candid’s two new dashboards— Grant recipients by state and Foundations by state —on Tableau Public , you can explore both questions for yourself. One question we often hear is: Where does all that funding come from, and where does it go?

Funding

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Granted, consumer spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday is not a perfect indicator of how GivingTuesday might fare. billion in 2023, according to Adobe Analytics. billion the corresponding day saw in 2023. Victoria Vrana, CEO of Washington, DC-based fundraising platform GlobalGiving told The NonProfit Times.

Donation

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

2025 grant trends are doing the most , to say the least. With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. 5 Key Nonprofit Grant Trends Reshaping 2025 1.

Grants

GrantNews

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For example, nonprofits offering virtual volunteering opportunities see an increase in volunteers. Donors will admit they prefer their donation to go directly to a cause, rather than operation costs like a fair living wage for the CEO of a nonprofit , utilities, transportation costs, and other expenses.

Education

Get Fully Funded

JULY 30, 2025

In this guide, we’ll explore six alternative funding ideas that nonprofits of all sizes should consider to complement their existing fundraising strategies. Tap Into Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) DAFs have become a fast-growing source of funding for nonprofits. These funds hold vast potential: recent data shows that over 1.7

Funding

Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

How This Downturn Could Be Different for Grantmakers While recessions typically strain financial resources and increase demands on nonprofits, todays economic landscape is shaped by a few unusual factors, making the road ahead particularly complex. According to the 2023 Nonprofit Workplace Survey , 51.7%

Government

Candid

JUNE 16, 2025

A 2023 survey found that only 5.4% of respondents believed they or an immediate family member had received nonprofit services in the past year. The National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) has issued a guide to help nonprofits “tell the value story of the nonprofit community, before it is defined by others.”

Nonprofit

Candid

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While nonprofit organizations’ finances are regularly put under a microscope, grantmakers’ finances typically come under less scrutiny. The grant dollars are as reported by survey respondents. In 2023, the median ratio for our sample was 0.04, meaning that for every $1 the organization granted, the CEO received compensation of 4¢.

Award

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Heres a tip: give two (or more) of your friends $10 and ask them to donate to your nonprofit online, via your website. Gifts by DAF (Donor Advised Funds) increased by 83% from 2019 to 2023.Ensure Tailor our Donor Thank You Call Script to your nonprofits need and your style. Ask them to be brutally honest in their feedback.

Fundraising

Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Nebraska receives more per capita from both individuals and grantmakers It’s no surprise that the states with the largest populations and the most nonprofits—California, Texas, New York, and Florida—receive the most charitable dollars overall. Nebraska ranks 37th for population and 36th for the number of nonprofits.

Award

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the United States, there were 28 climate disasters in 2023 , which surpassed the record of 22 disasters in 2020 – tallying a price tag of at least $92.9 Finally, the numbers worldwide are alarming– with 398 recorded natural disasters worldwide in 2023. In response, people often step up and ask, “How can I help?”

Donation

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Coastal Enterprises in Brunswick, Maine received $25 million, the Nonprofit Finance Fund was awarded $22 million, and Craft3 in Seattle announced it received $15 million. This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations. There were 6,353 applications for the Open Call.

Finance

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 1, 2025

However, many funders remain hesitant to relinquish control over how grant dollars are used. While general operating, unrestricted (GO) grants are ideal for nonprofits, project-restricted grants continue to be funded more successfully. This method is especially valuable in a time of economic uncertainty.

Funding

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 24, 2025

These charitable giving accounts, which are established by individual donors but managed by sponsoring organizations, have historically been a source of excitement for nonprofits. DAFs incentivize wealthy donors to give more without creating their own foundations, providing new opportunities for nonprofits to receive large donations.

Funding

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

A giving circle is a group of individuals who pool their charitable donations and collectively decide how to distribute those funds to nonprofits, schools, or other specific causes. From 2017 to 2023, participation in collective giving grew to 4,000 giving circles contributing more than $3.1 billion to social causes.

Donation

Candid

MAY 1, 2025

501(c)(3) nonprofits are very small organizations with annual budgets below $50,000. household income ($80,610 in 2023). These very small organizations are often overlooked both by donors and research about the sector, in part because we know much less about them than about other nonprofits. nonprofits are very small.

Demographics

Strategic Grants

JANUARY 27, 2025

The research team at Strategic Grants spend hundreds of hours each month reviewing newsletters, funder sites, LinkedIn and many other resources to find funding and grants to update in our Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS), ensuring our clients have a strong pipeline of funding prospects. billion in assets and $27.34

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

OCTOBER 27, 2024

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities. In FY ‘23, $3.8

Federal Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Major donations and planned gifts often get the limelight, but without annual gifts, the day-to-day functions of your nonprofit could come to a halt. The examples below show how annual giving funds enable different nonprofit sectors to serve their missions. This is where annual giving comes in. compared to the previous year.

Donation

Blackbaud

MARCH 11, 2025

Not That Theres Anything Wrong with Run-Walk-Bike Events Traditional run-walk-bike events remain popular with nonprofits because theyre still very popular with fundraisers and the communities that donate to their causes. In 2023, the live-streamed event raised more than $8,200 for Make-A-Wish Georgia. Lets get to it!

Fundraising

Community Boost

JULY 14, 2025

A DAF is a charitable giving account donors use to make contributions, receive immediate tax deductions , and recommend grants to nonprofit organizations over time. As of 2023, total charitable assets in DAFs reached a staggering $251.52 billion —up from $228.92 billion in 2022. However, there are several obstacles to overcome.

Funding

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Agriculture grants are vital to maintaining a healthy, sustainable food chain. From farm to table, these grants provide essential support to farmers and agricultural businesses, ensuring that fresh, local produce continues to reach our communities. That’s why agriculture grants are so important.

Grants

NonProfit PRO

JULY 14, 2025

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 4, 2025

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Funding

Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

nonprofit sector, yet it remains significantly underfunded. A 2023 report from the Do Good Institute found that 78.9% of nonprofit leaders say volunteers enable them to provide essential services they otherwise could not. Communities benefit from services nonprofits cant provide without volunteers.

Training

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

New data from the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy ’s “2025 Compensation and Benefits Report” reveals that average salaries have plateaued, but median compensation is rising faster than inflation, signaling a more equitable distribution of earnings across the nonprofit sector. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Candid

MARCH 18, 2025

nonprofit sector is facing a period of significant destabilization. Candid and the Urban Institutes Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy have each released analyses examining government funding of nonprofits and implications for what’s at stake for communities nationwide. nonprofit sector.

Government

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

OCTOBER 27, 2024

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities. In FY ‘23, $3.8

Federal Grants

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Foundation Source was acquired during 2023 by private equity firm GTCR. Foundation Source supports more than 4,000 charitable organizations, administers more than $25 billion in foundation assets, and facilitates more than 120,000 grants and planned gifts annually, according to data from the firm.

Management

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“There is no merit to the Office of the Haitian Diaspora and the Haitian Diaspora Political Action Committee lawsuit regarding American Red Cross relief and recovery efforts in Haiti,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement to The NonProfit Times. Their hopes and struggles and agonies Get us grants and consulting fees.

Funding

Planned Giving

JULY 31, 2025

Editor’s Note (August 2025): This article was originally published in August 2023 and has been updated to reflect current terminology and to include links to additional resources on Philanthropy.org , a platform for insights and trends in modern giving. Because these organizations are charitable , many of them are nonprofits.

Donation

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

based donors in 2024, down just one from 2023. According to Dollars and Change , a report from Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, total dollars awarded and average grant or gift size increased between 2015 and 2022. But the total dollar amount of those mega gifts fell more sharply, to about $4.35 billion from $5.4

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Fundraising HayDay

JUNE 12, 2025

Today’s guest said that her career culminated during the pandemic when she was working on her doctorate around nonprofits and organizational resilience during disruptive times. Dr. Brandi Rae Hicks has worked for and with United Way, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, and many other organizations.

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