Candid insights

Learn how your nonprofit can benefit from participating in the first-ever DAF Day in 2024–a collaborative effort to help nonprofits receive more gifts from donor-advised funds, today’s fastest growing vehicle for charitable giving.

Use Candid’s top nonprofit grant writing tips, expert articles, and free resources to write grant proposals that successfully showcase impact, appeal to funders, and make a compelling case for funding your cause.

In a world of shrinking attention spans, learn about the advantages of using microlearning on social media to engage and educate supporters online–and get real-world tips on how your nonprofit can put this approach into practice.

Learn the key steps that nonprofit boards can take to build an effective funding strategy and why their involvement is critical to nonprofits’ sustainable success based on Bridgespan’s recent research and expertise.

Discover three keys for equipping nonprofits with the knowledge and funding to engage in policy advocacy work, so charitable organizations can better lend their voices to championing positive change in the communities they serve.

Find out how your nonprofit can conduct market research—without breaking the bank—and why gathering such feedback can be the key to unlocking greater impact, garnering more support, and advancing your organization’s mission.

If you’re getting started on a website redesign for your nonprofit, consider these five key steps and best practices to help your team prepare for what a new website project will entail and ensure your efforts result in success.

Learn how you can overcome challenges in nonprofit fundraising in an election year by adapting your messaging to create impact, especially when engaging donors in swing states.

Learn how to run a social media experiment with expertise guidance to help you better reach, engage, and inspire action among your nonprofit’s donors, supporters, and online community.

Add these nine free eBooks for nonprofits to your summer reading list to brush up on fundraising basics, level up your leadership skills, and learn how to harness innovation for change.

Take this free course to learn about demographic data dos and don’ts based on funders’ real-world lessons and best practices for collecting, analyzing, and using this information in grantmaking.