Candid insights

The big picture of the social sector, backed by data and expertise

Economic Democracy: A Conversation With Funders

The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI), in partnership with the Kendeda Fund and the Open Society Foundations (OSF), recently hosted a funder briefing on economic democracy. In the lead-up to the economic democracy briefing, Sandra Lobo, BCDI board vice president…

By Sandra Lobo

March 12, 2020

Is the Environmental Movement Still #SoWhite? Learning from the 2019 Green 2.0 Transparency Report Card

As environmental disasters from the recent wildfires in Australia and California to the growing intensity of tropical storms increase, environmental work takes on heightened urgency. We know that crises such as wildfires, rising sea levels, poor water, and air quality…

By Whitney Tome

March 12, 2020

Update on the philanthropic response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Editor’s note: Since the publishing of this post, Candid released a pop-up webpage about coronavirus disease. View philanthropy’s response to the pandemic: candid.org/coronavirus. While we’ll be updating this webpage regularly, there can be lags getting data from different sources, so…

By Andrew Grabois

March 11, 2020

The Arc of Justice: The World’s Religions Launch Strategic Priorities for Peace

As the coronavirus public health crisis grows increasingly urgent, prominent global actors and institutions, including the United Nations, are wrestling with the realization that all hands on deck are required to address the cross-cutting global challenges we face. The latest…

By Azza Karam and Kyoichi Sugino

March 9, 2020

What’s new at Candid (March 2020)

From the work we do at Candid, I’ve gained a better appreciation for how connected and small the world really is. At our trainings, there are always attendees who are shocked and delighted to see a friendly face that they…

By Jen Bokoff (she/her)

March 6, 2020

Funders respond to coronavirus (COVID-19)

Editor’s note: Since the publishing of this post, Candid released a pop-up webpage about coronavirus. View philanthropy’s response to the pandemic: candid.org/coronavirus. While we’ll be updating this webpage regularly, there can be lags getting data from different sources, so there…

By Andrew Grabois

March 3, 2020

Filling the data and knowledge gap: how philanthropy can better partner with Indigenous communities

In anticipation of its forthcoming issue devoted to Indigenous philanthropy, Alliance magazine asked three Candid employees who were deeply involved in developing the Investing in Native Communities website to share lessons from that experience. “Philanthropy has consistently under-funded Indigenous communities…

By Grace Sato (she/her), Supriya Kumar (she/her), and Sarina Dayal (she/they)

February 25, 2020

Celebrating Candid’s first year with our social media followers

Our commemoration of Candid’s first anniversary is drawing to a close. For the last celebratory post in this blog, we wanted to share some of our favorite #CandidAnniversary social media updates. We featured the photo at the beginning of this…

By Suzanne Coffman (she/her)

February 24, 2020

What’s new at Candid (February 2020)

It’s been a year since we’ve become Candid ... wow! Next month, we’ll launch our first annual report so that you can see a full picture of all that’s been happening behind the scenes. I work with incredibly driven and…

By Jen Bokoff (she/her)

February 21, 2020

DEI starts with us

Don’t take away my Black card during Black History Month. Before you read what I wrote below, you should also know that I am one who has experienced and fought racism and discrimination in the workplace. I won some battles…

By Valerie F. Leonard (she/her)

February 20, 2020

Social impact trends that will shape 2020 and beyond

Social impact, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, purpose-driven brands, social good … call it what you will … statistics show that how companies positively contribute to the communities they do business in and the world around them is more important to…

By Maureen Carlson (she/her)

February 19, 2020

Frequently Asked Questions on Census 2020: Census Identities Still Confound

Everyone in the United States plays a race or ethnic card at some point, or at least everyone who responds to the decennial census. Despite the scientific consensus that race is an artificial social construct, unmoored from biological reality, is…

By Khalil Abdullah

February 18, 2020