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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
Ladder Funding: A Collaborative Approach to Changing the World
According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are more than 1.5 million charitable organizations in the United States. Despite the many different forms they take, all of them have something in common: a desire to create meaningful change…
March 23, 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
Weekend Link Roundup (March 21-22, 2020)
There's no other way to put it: we've just experienced one of the most extraordinary weeks in our lifetimes. On the off-chance you were rafting the Grand Canyon, here's our weekly roundup of noteworthy items from and about the social…
March 22, 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
Jeff Bezos and Climate Change
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and, according to Forbes, the world's richest man, has asserted himself in the race to address our greatest global threat, the climate crisis. In February, Bezos announced he was donating $10 billion to fight a…
March 17, 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