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Co-leadership: A path to more diverse, sustainable nonprofits?
Dig into insights on nonprofit co-leadership to find out whether this commonplace trend of charitable organizations led by two leaders is opening the door to more overall diversity in the sector.
April 17, 2024
Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency
Get insights into how young community service is being redefined by Gen Z and how young people are seeking to maximize their social impact—both for themselves and the communities they serve.
April 16, 2024
Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership
Elizabeth Barajas-Román of WFN shares what a demographic data partnership with Candid enables for advancing equity in the sector, including the first-ever, public dashboard to analyze intersectionality in nonprofit executive leadership.
April 11, 2024
The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’
CEP’s Tanya Gulliver-Garcia explores funding for Maui wildfires—and what learnings the record-setting response to Hawaii’s recent natural hazard hold for future investment in disaster philanthropy.
April 9, 2024
Collecting demographic data: Nonprofits value transparency but need support
Viewpoint Consulting’s Kelly Brown shares new research findings on sharing demographic data via Candid, including the drivers and barriers of collecting this information to advance nonprofit transparency.
March 28, 2024
What’s trending? Top subject searches in Candid nonprofit profiles
Candid nonprofit profiles help funders, donors, DAF advisors, and others find organizations to support; read this article to learn what supporters searched for most in February 2024.
March 27, 2024
Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities
Discover why data on under-resourced communities is key unlocking greater impact and better serving the needs of nonprofit beneficiaries.
March 26, 2024
Community foundations: Resilience in tough economic times
Council of Foundations’ David Rosado highlights key CF insights report findings on community foundations in 2022, including what changes in the growth of their assets and grantmaking may signal for today.
March 21, 2024
Black leadership and Black experiences in the social sector
Revisit recent Candid research on Black leadership in the social sector, including a comprehensive analysis of private philanthropy’s support of HBCUs.
March 13, 2024
Looking back at five years of Candid’s demographic data collection
Drawing on five years of historical data collection, we share four key insights about the demographic information of nonprofits’ leadership and staff that’s been shared with Candid.
February 28, 2024
Have grantmaker salaries kept up with inflation?
In this article, we delve into the data to see whether grantmaker salaries have kept up with inflation between 2019 and 2023.
February 13, 2024