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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

We keep hearing from scholars, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and families that civil society as we know it is at stake. From food banks to disaster relief providers, nonprofits are often the first to respond in times of crisis. We know that many of these organizations are deeply trusted by their communities.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. Many nonprofits also engaged in disaster relief efforts out of necessity, despite having no previous experience in relief work. .

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

iNaturalist (noted above), Missing Maps , an 180,000 volunteer community mapping remote locations to support humanitarian relief, and Open Human , a platform where more than 10,000 people make personal health data available to support research, are other interesting cases.