Candid insights

Two things are true when it comes to disaster philanthropy: The next disaster is just around the corner. The need for disaster preparation and recovery never ends. Here are Candid’s suggestions for disaster giving that has both short- and long-term…

The most effective way to solve societal problems is through the confluence and engagement of all the major sectors—private, public, and nonprofit. We must embrace the community sector, which is often underutilized and inadequately represented. —Tonya Allen, CEO, The Skillman…

If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that we can only ever truly expect the unexpected. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has completely altered how we work, play, relax, and of course, it’s completely changed fundraising trends as we’ve…

The CEP report New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support highlights one of the most vexing paradoxes in the modern nonprofit sector: despite an understanding of the benefits of unrestricted, long-term funding, many foundations continue to provide only…

There’s a bit of OMG humor flying around the internet right now that’s gone viral because it resonates so well. With apologies to the anonymous original author, here’s the gist: “There’s probably not a single person back in 2015 who…

The IRS Tax Exempt & Government Entities Division (TE/GE) took a new approach to its annual letter defining priorities for the coming year. The beginning of the TE/GE FY 2021 Program Letter explains that this year’s letter marks an intentional…

A few years ago, I led a Vietnamese-community-focused nonprofit as a youthful executive director filled with equal parts optimism and adult acne. I remember though one time at a board meeting trying to get board members to donate. “Please,” I…

In our continuing effort to track the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic on nonprofit employment, we have analyzed data from the latest BLS Employment Situation Report to estimate nonprofit job losses through October 2020. We then looked at month-over-month trends to see…

So far, 2020 has been a record-setting year for disasters and disaster funding. There is, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Then there’s the Atlantic hurricane season, which has seen so much activity that forecasters exhausted the alphabetical list of storm…

Over the course of the last year, the world has witnessed unprecedented challenges—the unexpected presence of a devastating pandemic, growing awareness of longstanding racism and pervasive systemic inequality, and a movement to restore democracy. We are in a season of…

A confluence of a global pandemic, growing social unrest, and a totally bifurcated economy is testing the capacity and potential of American philanthropy as never before and changing our truths in fundraising. The stark reality is that already huge gaps…

Even before the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, racial strife, economic downturn, and political maelstrom, our industry was changing. For many practitioners, we simply sensed that our equilibrium was off and something about our work was uncomfortable and changing. We just…