Mackenzie Scott’s new website Yield Giving is now accessible to the public. A cumulative gift database, it gives us a great deal of information the $14,000,000,000 she has given to 1,600+ non-profit … [Read more...] about The Latest on Mackenzie Scott: A Web Database with Mixed Applications
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Examination of environmental grantmaking practices reveals disparities
“Examining Disparities in Environmental Grantmaking: Where the Money Goes” examines the environmental grantmaking practices of 220 foundations that distributed more than 30,000 grants totaling $4.9 … [Read more...] about Examination of environmental grantmaking practices reveals disparities
Four articles on DEI
In an open letter published on Black Feminist Fund, some of philanthropy’s most influential organizations say that “It’s time to fund Black feminist movements like we want them to win”. Among the 11 … [Read more...] about Four articles on DEI
2023 Lean Foundation Operations And Management Report
Exponent Philanthropy is an association of mostly small funders- private and community foundations with few or no staff, philanthropic families, and individual donors. The group surveys its … [Read more...] about 2023 Lean Foundation Operations And Management Report
What motivates donors to give? …Matching Gifts
An estimated $4-$7 billion in matching gift funds goes unclaimed per year. This, according to American Charities, a 501(c)(3) membership-based nonprofit that promotes workplace giving. In their … [Read more...] about What motivates donors to give? …Matching Gifts
About Those 990PFs…
Many funders don’t have a website, this is especially true with small family foundations. So, the 990PFs are often the only source of information about them.* Foundations must submit tax reports to … [Read more...] about About Those 990PFs…
Fundraising Event Experience survey
Classy, a leading online fundraising platform and thought leader, highlighted donors’ 2022 Fundraising Event Experience in a survey of 1,000 event attendees: -- 26% attended live events, while 36% … [Read more...] about Fundraising Event Experience survey
Virtual Volunteers
For years, Grantseekers told grantmakers that the only way they’d receive a grant was if a corporate employee was on their board of directors. The pandemic sort of wrecked that plan. Not that … [Read more...] about Virtual Volunteers