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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in Brazil 

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. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Isabelle Leighton: I love that you’re starting with a nice and easy question, not like my favorite food or anything! It doesn’t fall within the same political ideological frameworks that are presented within a lot of the traditional philanthropy. So, this is a great question and something we get asked a lot. It looks different.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. In Uganda, the 40-plus members of Food Rights Alliance mobilize and organize communities for collective action to advance the cause of ending hunger and malnutrition.

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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. The conference will explore the role of civil society organizations in finding common ground, ways to facilitate collaboration, combatting disinformation, and other topics.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, another recent study on African conservation funding practices finds that 92 percent of African civil society organizations struggle to access sufficient core funding, 71 percent of them identified short-term project structures as a key barrier, and 52 percent find existing proposal and reporting requirements to be a barrier.

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Get Inspired: 40 Quotes About Nonprofit Leadership and Fundraising

Nonprofit Fixer

Like, ‘We’ll help you, you’re poor, you need money, but we don’t actually trust you to buy food because we just think you’re going to buy beer or hot Cheetos.’” - Vu Le, Nonprofit AF ( source ) “All of our goals must be measurable. Your job is to raise money. After asking for a gift. They want to truly solve or tackle a social problem.”-

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Health of the Nonprofit Sector: The Latest Data

NonProfit Quarterly

This means that those employees “lived in households that could not afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, a smart phone plan, or taxes” (6). The findings suggest nonprofits are playing a diminished role in some facets of civil society, namely lobbying government and working with government on policies.

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