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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) recently announced a bold $130 million investment to ensure leaders and organizations that best align with our mission have the resources needed to continue critical education efforts, services, and community organizing across the country. In a typical year, MCF distributes around $25 million in grants.

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Boost Your Nonprofit Fundraising with Print-on-Demand Merchandise

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, the American Indian Cancer Foundation offers a variety of beautifully designed clothing items that help promote their cause and raise funds. Also, the Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome Foundation has curated a catalog of top-selling items, leveraging their logo to engage supporters, and deliver products that donors wear with pride.

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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. In 1951, the groups came together to create the United Housing Foundation. First, acquisition costs in high-demand areas can be expensive. Second, education for LEC members is crucial.

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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. It also hit manufactured housing communities, home to many in the tourism and service industries that drive the states economy. A third grant provides $7.5

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Notably, this project was funded by the Center for Disease Control Foundation as part of their work to use art experiences to increase public health. Community Ties , a study by the Knight Foundation and Urban Institute, found that access to cultural spaces significantly increases community attachment. Research supports this approach.

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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

Through our Southern Workers Opportunity (SWO) fund, in collaboration with the AFL-CIO, the Ford Foundation, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), we have committed more than $10 million in multiyear grants since 2022 to Black- and Brown-led worker organizations in the region.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations.