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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. On average, over 50% of disaster relief funding goes to immediate response and relief, while just 10% goes to reconstruction and recovery.

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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.

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15 Inspiring Examples of Corporate Social Responsibility

Top Nonprofits

Meanwhile, other standout giving programs include : Matching gifts, volunteer grants Walt Disney Company & Make-A-Wish Foundation The Walt Disney Company has a long-standing partnership with Make-A-Wish Foundation, granting wishes to children with critical illnesses. Learn more about the corporate partnership here.

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The Ultimate Source for Fundraising Questions – From Permission to Confirmation

iMarketSmart

But then we turn around and do the same thing, asking donors things like, “You want children to be happy and healthy, right?” Those questions can be adapted to any context – schools, hospitals, countries, communities, cities, and even to issues such as race relations, poverty, and veterans. We laugh when it’s a movie.

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Impact of International Aid Cuts on African Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

If USAID stops completely, humanitarian crises will worsen as millions of people lose access to food aid, disaster relief, and essential supplies. Thats not accounting for the up to 18 million additional malaria cases, 200,000 polio-related disabilities, and over one million deaths of children from severe malnutrition each year.

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Providence Nonprofits Reeling from Funding Cuts and Threats (And, Organizations—What You Can Do!)

NonProfit Quarterly

Poverty is seen as an individual problem, but it affects us all. When people think about nonprofits, they tend to think of food banks, homeless shelters, and disaster relief. Funders and all Rhode Islanders need to see that nonprofits are too important to lose and do whats necessary to support them.