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The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) most recent research report, Crucial Donors: How Major Individual Givers Can Best Support Nonprofits, reveals in its key findings that “relationships matter,” and “understanding is a key component to any kind of strong...
At Fidelity Charitable, we are often asked by nonprofit organizations, “How can we better work with major donors to make more of an impact?” And my reply is always the same: the best way to make an impact with major donors is to engage with them. Nonprofits often face...
When most people hear the word “philanthropy,” they often think of large foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or the Ford Foundation, but individual donors are the lifeblood of the nonprofit sector. Foundations direct less than 20 percent of the...
Philanthropic foundations and their donors have the freedom to direct their donations and social investments in any way they see fit. There is tremendous power in this freedom: it gives them the ability to take risks and support projects, issues, and organizations...
This post originally appeared on The Jim Joseph Foundation blog. In reflecting about my journey at the Jim Joseph Foundation – these last 4 ½ years – an insight from Mother Teresa comes to mind. Indeed, after a lifetime of working with the poor, the sick, and the...
This post is excerpted and adapted from Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving our Global Neighbor (2019) by Bruce Wydick, available from HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson. Providing direct cash transfers to impoverished communities, both domestically...
Learning and knowledge sharing are important topics in philanthropy. By adopting a learning orientation and exchanging knowledge with others, grantmakers can better position themselves to address the complex problems they're working to solve today. Learning itself,...
Earlier this summer CEP held its first Innovation Week, where all staff shifted focus from their everyday work to outside-the-box ideas that could move CEP’s mission forward. These projects could be anything related to CEP’s mission: ideas they've had before, but...
This post originally appeared on The Gathering blog. The first time I read the phrase “bearing witness” was in Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” recounting the horrors of the Holocaust and the responsibility he felt never to forget or allow others to dismiss what...
Thanks to the digital age, we live in a new era of storytelling. Whether through blogs, emails, social media, or video, using stories to highlight an organization’s impact is an engaging way to invite people into the good work being done. From the complexities of...