Candid insights

Dive into the evolving world of education funding across both philanthropy and individual donors to find out what’s changing, including why the share of overall grant and donation dollars to education nonprofits is shrinking.

Learn how AI tools promise to save lives and improve nonprofits’ humanitarian response to civil conflicts and other crises by accelerating access to the critical data and information needed for ensuring help goes to where it’s urgently needed.

Learn how to create a LGBTQ+ inclusive workplace using expert strategies that go beyond one-off initiatives during Pride Month and instead, build LGBTQ+ employee inclusion into your organizational culture.

Learn why winning over the next generation of social changemakers and NextGen donors requires that nonprofit fundraisers adapt to and understand how Gen Z and Millennials’ charitable giving and activities uniquely differ from others.

Find out why small grants unlock critical funding that help nonprofits lacking any funding sources to get their cause off the ground, especially when combined with deep listening and trust-based philanthropy funder practices.

Find out why asking better questions in funder research and program evaluation holds the key to unlocking more equitable outcomes for the people that nonprofits serve–and get expert guidance on how to do so in practice.

Get an inside look into Ford Foundation’s DEI, including their staff culture that embodies diversity, equity, and inclusion and the intentional steps they took to build it.

Dig into data on the nonprofit workforce to learn why its workers are in need of financial support to be able to make ends meet in their own lives while working to improve those of others.

Learn about the newest version of the Philanthropy Classification System (PCS), and how community input shaped Candid’s updated taxonomy to offer a fuller and more robust picture of the organizations that make up the social sector.

Learn what intermediary organizations are, the role they play in advancing equity in the sector, and how funders can best support intermediaries’ work to provide vital infrastructure for today’s nonprofits and causes.

To help nonprofits safely and responsibly benefit from latest tech, learn how a new breed of platforms combine AI-powered smart search and Candid data to make grant prospecting and writing easier, faster, and more effective.