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Billion-Dollar Donations Lead the Year's Biggest Gifts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Reed Hastings and Michael Bloomberg made the largest contributions in 2024. By Maria Di Mento Chronicle illustration; Getty Images Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, gave stock valued at $1.1 billion to their Hastings Fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Michael Bloomberg gave $1 billion through his Bloomberg Philanthropies to Johns Hopkins University to make medical school free for most students.

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15 Compelling Nonprofit Stats From 2024

NonProfit PRO

Heres a statistical summary of our 2024 coverage to help you and your nonprofit grow your impact and revenue in 2025.

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The Best of Climate Justice 2024

NonProfit Quarterly

The end of the year is often a time for reflection. As we consider 2024, and look toward the year ahead, the NPQ team presents a collection of articles that impacted us this year. These articles further the conversations that offer positive solutions for the global climate crisis and center voices on the ground: from the young leaders bringing energy and momentum to the climate movement to new environmental policies, from community resilience to the changing climates influence on insurance, educ

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Localization Through Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sylvia K. Ilahuka One of the latest trends in the development world is leadership localization, a term that describes a usually Western funders effort to shift power to usually non-Western local communities, and thus create a more meaningful presence in the countries where their grantees implement programs. Done well, the benefits of localization are many.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Building #Blacksky

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: RossHelen on iStock In the weeks following the 2024 US presidential election, the company and social media platform Bluesky has seen its numbers rocket, thanks largely to users of X (formerly Twitter) fleeing the site owned by mogul-turned-presidential-advisor Elon Musk. Meanwhile, within that shift lies a story, still very much unfolding, of a new attempt to build a Black community online: It goes by Blacksky.

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2024 Blue Avocado Year in Review

Blue Avocado

State of the Avocado Esteemed community: The state of our Avocado is firm ripe ! Why not ripe? There’s always room for improvement, and the scale is not perfect. Blue Avocado exists to help nonprofits succeed , and our community of nonprofit experts, leaders, and trailblazers continues to share their wisdom, strengthening us all. Under the Skin 2024 was a year of growth and evolution for Blue Avocado.

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Charity Navigator Launches Beneficiary Voices Fund to Empower Nonprofits That Listen

NonProfit PRO

Charity Navigator launched the Beneficiary Voices Fund, a curated list of nonprofits that prioritize beneficiaries' feedback and input.

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Simple, sensible redesign crushed their Christmas campaign

Jeff Brooks

Is your fundraising starting to look a little dated? Ready for a refresh to pump life back into it? You need to read this LinkedIn post from Mark Phillips. In short: A charity with a long-running and highly effective Christmas appeal programme decided to give its design a makeover… Still Christmassy, but brighter, bolder, and more contemporary.

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How to Increase Traffic on Your Blog: 10 Proven Methods

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Increase Traffic on Your Blog: 10 Proven Methods Want to increase your traffic to your blog? Check out these 10 proven methods to get more traffic for free. Get started today and grow your blog. If you feel that your content marketing efforts don’t bring you traffic, you shouldn’t fall into panic. You are not alone who has the same issue.

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“What the skibbidi Ohio sigma rizz?!” Gen Alpha slang explained for nonprofit professionals

Non Profit AF

Hi everyone, this will be the last blog post before the holiday break. Ill be back on January 7th. I.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Ensuring a healthy U.S. democracy in the face of extreme weather events

Candid

Principles of resiliency and adaptation are just as important for the infrastructure of our democracy as they are for our built world. Democratic systems, processes, and institutions must be able to respond to shifting demands to address challenges created by durable changes to geography, population distribution, and economic centers caused by extreme weather events.

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The Best of Health Justice 2024

NonProfit Quarterly

The NPQ team brings you some of our favorite Health Justice articles from 2024. In these articles, we offer powerful practices to restore health and wellbeing within organizations, weigh in on civil societys role in the struggle over reproductive rights, and tease out critical nuances in the relationship between technology and health. By spotlighting solutions, exposing systemic inequities, and equipping leaders in the sector with the tools needed to foster equity and resilience, we aim to bolst

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The Process to Enact State Climate Laws is Broken. Funders Can Help Fix It.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

States are the best hope for clean-energy action during the Trump administration. But steps must be taken to prevent new legislation from falling into regulatory black holes. By Ted Ko dane_mark, Getty Images States are the best hope for clean-energy action during the Trump administration. But steps must be taken to prevent new legislation from falling into regulatory black holes.

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The Best of Racial Justice 2024

NonProfit Quarterly

As the NPQ team reflects on 2024, we offer some articles that made a lasting impressionarticles that we hope offer insights to navigate the uncertainty ahead. These articles aim to uplift conversations and voices addressing urgent racial justice and leadership trends, including the alarming exodus of women of color from nonprofit leadership; the othering of immigrant communities; anti-DEI rhetoric; the financial instability facing racial justice nonprofits; and potential legal threats of policy

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.