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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. Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared.

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Who do Americans believe should help people in need? 

Candid

At the top of the list were nonprofits helping people in the United States who need food, shelter, or other basic necessities (40%) and religious institutions (churches, mosques, or synagogues, (37%), followed by disaster relief (29%), animal welfare (24%), educational (21%), and health care or medical research (19%) organizations.

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Communicating the value and impact of nonprofits

Candid

At a time when nonprofits across the United States are facing the loss of government grants and increased scrutiny, it’s become ever more important to ensure the value and impact of nonprofits is recognized. The impact of cuts to government grants for nonprofit services that rely on those grants directly affect those communities.

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Undocumented and Unprotected: How Immigration Status Amplifies Climate Vulnerability

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, the question of who is most impacted by climate disasters has more to do with an individual’s pre-existing socioeconomic position and their corresponding access to disaster preparedness and recovery resources. But a greater understanding of this kind of vulnerability is emerging, and efforts are now underway to close the gap.

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Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

We spoke with Ingrid Srinath, founder and director of the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy ( CSIP ) at Ashoka University, to learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on India’s social sector, the role philanthropy and nonprofits played in disaster relief, and her hopes for the future. .