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Celebrating Candid’s first year with our social media followers

Suzanne Coffman (she/her)
February 24, 2020

Five women wearing black I am Candid T-shirts. Two are holding yellow pieces of paper. The paper on the left says, Be. The paper on the right says, Candid.

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 post in several places on February 6, 2020, one year to the day after we announced Candid’s formation.

On February 10 we tweeted about the growth of the Nonprofit Profile Update Program during our first year:

The next day, we shared several achievements from our first 12 months:

Tweet by Candid, [1/7] ICYMI: During our first year as Candid we launched a series of tools for exploring funding information for a variety of issue areas. Check out these great tools: #CandidAnniversary

Tweet by Candid, [2/7] The Investing in Native Communities portal was launched in partnership with @NativeGiving . This site highlights data about who is funding Native communities and causes, where that funding is going, and more. https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org #CandidAnniversary

Tweet by Candid, [3/7] We partnered with @BeHIPGiveNew to launch a dashboard documenting the landscape of foundation funding in the Latinx Community. https://latinxfunders.org #CandidAnniversary

Tweet by Candid, [4/7] The 2019 Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report created in partnership with @funds4disaster contains updated data and interactive tools to improve disaster philanthropy. http://disasterphilanthropy.candid.org #CandidAnniversary

Tweet by Candid, [5/7] We launched a report on funding for human rights with @hrfunders . http://humanrightsfunding.org #CandidAnniversary

Tweet by Candid, [6/7] The latest version of the Peace & Security Funding Index was released in partnership with @PSFundersGroup . http://peaceandsecurityindex.org #CandidAnniversary

Tweet by Candid, [7/7] Scholarships for Change, an interactive platform to guide funders in the practice of scholarship grantmaking went live. It contains funding data, case studies, and other resources to help funders discover how they can transform the lives of scholars.

We told our LinkedIn and Twitter followers about our Funding Information Network (FIN) partners. This image is from LinkedIn; that’s Candid president Brad Smith speaking to FIN representatives visiting our New York office.

LinkedIn post showing Candid president Brad Smith speaks to a group of Financial Information Network representatives at a meeting held in the Candid NY office in October 2019. Above the images is this statement, #TBT On October 10, 2019, we kicked off Network Days in New York City with over 60+ partners joining us for 2 days of learning! #CandidAnniversary

There are many other updates throughout our channels, but we’ll close with this tweet:

Candid tweet, You have questions, we have answers. Last year you asked 29,404 questions to our online librarians. Keep them coming. https://candid.org/contact-us #CandidAnniversary

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Suzanne Coffman (she/her)

Editorial Director, Candid
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As publisher of the Candid Blog and Candid Newsletter, Suzanne strives to give Candid’s stakeholders information to help them do good. As chief writing guru, grammar and style maven, and English usage referee, she works to help her colleagues communicate effectively.

Suzanne followed a circuitous route to Candid. Each stop enabled her to strengthen her research, writing, and editing abilities. Early in her career, she was a research assistant and then historian at the U.S. Department of State. She left this position to undertake doctoral work in American history. As part of her doctoral program, she received formal editorial training at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History. After completing her doctoral exams, she was assistant editor at the Papers of John Marshall. From there, she moved to the Publications Department of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where she served as associate editor and then editor/writer. In November 1999, she joined GuideStar, where she held a number of roles: web content coordinator, managing editor of the GuideStar website, director of communications, and editorial director. She retained the position of editorial director when GuideStar and Foundation Center joined forces in February 2019.

Suzanne holds an A.B. in English and history from The College of William and Mary and an M.A. in American Civilization from The George Washington University. She abandoned her doctoral dissertation after a computer crash ate some of her research and led her to reevaluate her career goals. It was the right decision, but she regrets it.

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