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The long-running show offers lessons on how to reframe diversity initiatives so they unite rather than divide. By Eboo Patel David Moir/Bravo Diversity is woven into Top Chef , Eboo Patel writes, and identity is depicted as a source of pride, not a status of victimization. The long-running show offers lessons on how to reframe diversity initiatives so they unite rather than divide.
A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author on Appalachia, her nonprofit work, and how philanthropy can better serve the region. By Chronicle Staff A conversation with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author on Appalachia, her own nonprofit work, and how philanthropy can better serve the region.
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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement
There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how
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For several years in a row, The Kresge Foundation has earned a Candid Seal of Transparency by publishing information about our organization on our Candid profile , just as hundreds of thousands of nonprofit organizations maintain their own profiles. As a grantmaker, this sends a powerful message. Maintaining a Candid profile enables our grantmaking team to keep our philanthropic ideals—transparency, equity, and community—centered in our day-to-day work.
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4 Ways to Decide On Your Annual Nonprofit Fundraising Events When you sit down with your team to plan the year’s fundraisers, where do you start? Do you prioritize finances, donor behavior, marketing opportunities , or something else? How do you choose fundraisers that bring in the funds your nonprofit needs to thrive, engage supporters, and inspire lasting support?
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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.
I get a lot of political fundraising email. A lot. Dozens of similar messages every day from a bewildering variety of Democratic-leaning organizations. So many that it’s not possible to keep track. I used to open them and pay close attention, because they were from sophisticated email fundraisers who were running tests all the time. Nowadays, I delete most of them unopened.
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