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Dive into the evolving world of education funding across both philanthropy and individual donors to find out what’s changing, including why the share of overall grant and donation dollars to education nonprofits is shrinking.

Find out why small grants unlock critical funding that help nonprofits lacking any funding sources to get their cause off the ground, especially when combined with deep listening and trust-based philanthropy funder practices.

Explore the relationship between foundations’ CEO compensation and their annual grantmaking by type, tenure, gender, and race to learn how resources are distributed within these organizations.

Find out why asking better questions in funder research and program evaluation holds the key to unlocking more equitable outcomes for the people that nonprofits serve–and get expert guidance on how to do so in practice.

Get an inside look into Ford Foundation’s DEI, including their staff culture that embodies diversity, equity, and inclusion and the intentional steps they took to build it.

Learn what intermediary organizations are, the role they play in advancing equity in the sector, and how funders can best support intermediaries’ work to provide vital infrastructure for today’s nonprofits and causes.

Find out why Nebraska ranks among the top five states for per capita funding for nonprofits, including how a Midwestern culture of giving and billionaire Warren Buffett’s altruistic influence factor in.

Learn what it creating a culture of DEI requires in practice based on learnings and insights from the Ford Foundation’s journey to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into the cultural fabric of their grantmaking organization.

Discover what collaborative data makes possible and reveals about charitable giving trends and shifts in the U.S. across both individual donors and institutional funders in the 2024 report, Dollars and Change, created in partnership with and published by Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good.

Learn how today’s ultra-high net worth individuals and megadonors can better ensure their gifts to health-focused nonprofits meaningfully improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for people and communities across the U.S.

Discover why supporting Native communities takes listening, relationship-building, and partnership based on learnings from Northwest Area Foundation’s journey to fulfill their commitment to fund 40% Native-led organizations and causes.

Learn how private philanthropy can support ensuring public funds–or government funding–are used for providing public services that equitably benefit communities across the U.S.