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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) recently announced a bold $130 million investment to ensure leaders and organizations that best align with our mission have the resources needed to continue critical education efforts, services, and community organizing across the country. In a typical year, MCF distributes around $25 million in grants.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. The largest in-kind donor for Helene, Direct Relief, pledged $74 million in medication and medical supplies, as well as $250,000 in cash assistance.

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The Role of Emotion in Cause Marketing

Selfish Giving

But if the cashier asks for a gift to ensure our “our children have clean, safe tap water to drink&# more shoppers will give. Today, at Marshall’s a cashier held up a sneaker-shaped pinup and asked me to donate to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. We’re raising money today for children with the disease.

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How To Help After Hurricane Helene

Bloomerang

The Volunteer Florida Foundation has launched the Florida Disaster Fund as the State of Florida’s official private fund to support communities as they recover from the storm and to aid response and recovery activities. To support those in Virginia impacted by Hurricane Helene, you can donate to the Virginia Disaster Relief Fund.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For instance, Costa Ricas largest nature preserve of over 57,000 acres is the Childrens Eternal Rainforest , created through donations from school children around the world, while the Greater Yellowstone Coalition recently purchased 1,300 acres that had been targeted to develop a damaging gold mine.

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Nonprofit Mission and Case Statements: 4 Top Tips

Fundraising Coach

These documents are a vital foundation for all communication activities a nonprofit will undertake, as Grant Cobb, Head of Marketing and Analytics at GivingMail, explains. Your mission statement serves as the foundation for a number of important documents required for effective nonprofit funding strategies. Grantmakers and foundations.

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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

Many of their partnerships respond to food insecurity concerns and disaster relief efforts. Their network reaches children, seniors, and families no matter where they live or spend time. The Feeding America National Organization relies on individual, corporate, and foundation support.

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