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How we all benefit from nonprofits every day 

Candid

Health information and assistance: When surfing online for health information, most of us will end up on a nonprofits website. And because those fees cover less than half the cost, performing arts organizations and museums are heavily dependent on contributions from funders and individuals.

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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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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Where everybody sleeps in a safe and decent home and has access to the care they need for their children, elders, and themselves. Consider 80-year-old grandma Lynn McFarland, arrested and carried out of a Tennessee state senate hearing room defending childrens rights to an education.

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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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Infographic: Which Nonprofits are Rocking Social Media?

Care2

Disaster Relief. From August to October of 2011 the craigconnects team reviewed nonprofits by areas of focus to check out how they do social media and found out some great information. We investigated the top 5 nonprofits in the following categories based on total expenses provided by Charity Navigator: Animal. Environment.

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Two Looks At Nonprofit Social Media

The Agitator

For a macroview, The Nonprofit Quarterly reported recently on a Craigconnect study of fifty top US charities using social media, grouped in these focus categories — Animal, Children, Cultural, Disaster Relief, Environment, Health, Veterans & Military, and Women.

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Research: Just how much do faith, ethnicity, politics and age affect giving?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.