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6 Places to Find Grants for Your Non-Profit

The Fundraising Authority

Many non-profit organizations rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to round out their fundraising efforts. If your non-profit is looking for new grant opportunities, here are six tried-and-true places to find them: #1 – Your Board I always start my grant research with my board.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” Foundations could follow this model.

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The Hollow Prize for Leaders of Color

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Similarly, 51 percent of POC leaders cite lack of access to foundations as a challenge compared to 41 percent of white leaders. But when the (often white) leaders had funder relationships that could allow them to write their own checks, governing boards didn’t ask too many questions. The country’s 33.2 percent) are Black-owned, just 3.2

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. Understanding, and developing guidelines and guardrails for, government use of AI.

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What Would a Social Justice Investment Ecosystem Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion figure any investment by firms that analyzed “ESG” factors when deciding where to invest funds and/or advocated for shareholder resolutions that seek some non-economic social benefit. As US SIF puts it , “the US SIF Foundation decided to modify its methodology for the 2022 report. Specially, US SIF counted in its $17.1-trillion

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Guidance for making grants to support Ukraine

Candid

It was original published on the Council on Foundations' website. . Over the last two weeks, the Council on Foundations has received scores of questions from the field about how to help the Ukrainian people during the ongoing Russian invasion, including during our recent webinar with the State Department.

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How to Create Exciting Social and Digital Content for Unsexy, Boring and Regulated Industries

Pam Moore

It's even more challenging if your business is in a highly regulated industry such as healthcare, financial, insurance or government. Key foundations for success in building your content marketing strategy and plan. Content tips and tricks – actionable strategies to create engaging and profitable content on a tight budget.