Candid insights

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…