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How to securely accept donations on your website
Gaining the trust and confidence of your donors should be one of your nonprofit website’s primary goals. The easiest way to do this is to make sure they know that their privacy and security are important to you. In the…
March 24, 2020
Introducing our 2020 Seals of Transparency
We launch the 2020 Seals of Transparency on GuideStar at a chaotic time for the nonprofit sector, our country, and the world. We know the situation is not normal. We understand if you have more pressing actions to take during…
March 23, 2020
COVID-19 vs. live events: alternative ideas for 2020 fundraising
With rapid development in the novel coronavirus pandemic, many nonprofits are facing a serious dilemma: should we cancel our live events for fundraising or continue promoting them? Regardless of the current public health concerns, alternative fundraising options such as digital…
March 23, 2020
8 steps for successful fundraising during the coronavirus crisis
"8 steps for successful fundraising during the coronavirus crisis" is reprinted from Amy Eisenstein’s blog. Coronavirus is spreading. The economy is declining. And there’s continued political turmoil. Any one of these three issues could be viewed as a recipe for…
March 20, 2020
Share grants data to inform the sector, locally, regionally, and globally
If you’re a grantmaker, you can inform multiple conversations important to the sector at large by sharing grants data with Candid. Candid, created when Foundation Center and GuideStar joined forces, celebrated our one-year anniversary on February 1 with a renewed…
March 19, 2020
Advice to Funders in the Covid-19 Era
For people born after November 23, 1963, 9/11 was an emotional and psychological shock unlike any we had experienced. The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession that followed were a shock of a different kind: slower, murkier, more…
March 18, 2020
Tips for successful online meetings
As more meetings move online, it is a good time to share tips and resources on facilitating online meetings with each other. Although you may find that the current coronavirus environment and the cancellations of in-person meetings is forcing a…
March 18, 2020
Funders: now is the time for true grantee partnerships
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented disruptions, fear, and uncertainty in all of our lives. While none of us can control this new reality, we can control how we respond. Now is the time to lead with compassion in each of our…
March 17, 2020
7 ways to anchor your corporate coronavirus response in compassion
The coronavirus has now spread to more than 100 countries and claimed more than 4,000 lives. Companies have been among the first to step up, pledging more than 80 percent of the total funds given to coronavirus response efforts. The U.S. Chamber…
March 16, 2020
Candid launches pop-up coronavirus webpage, emphasizes online trainings and programs
Candid gets you the information you need to do good. That’s why we created this pop-up webpage to share the philanthropic response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Knowing where money is going and how, and having the latest information…
March 13, 2020
Mission driven … off the rails?
☑ Effective mission statement? ☑ Inspiring vision statement? ☑ Thoughtful strategic plan? ☑ Hardworking board and staff? ☐ Goals accomplished? You and your colleagues put a lot of time and effort into creating your nonprofit’s goals. Together, you identified strategic…
March 12, 2020
Feedback and you: 5 tips for growing trust strategically
We all know that conducting surveys and soliciting feedback is an essential part of building something that works for the communities we serve. We’re here for them, after all. But we also know that attempting to gather, weigh, and honor survey feedback…
March 10, 2020