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Almost three-fourths of Black-led and Black-benefiting nonprofits are led by their founders. Collectively, the majority of those leaders work full-time in their organizations (73.3%), while 26.7% work part-time. Leaders tend to not be new to social change, with most having been in the nonprofit sector for 11 years or more (52.9%). That data is part of a new report “Grassroots, Black & Giving: How Philanthropy…
Just When They Thought It Was Safe To Breathe, Executives Had To Adjust … Again By Paul Clolery The pandemic was mostly done during late 2022 and early 2023. Supply chains were getting back to normal. Staff members were starting to go back to the office at least a couple of days a week. It was about that time that the pandemic’s trap door opened.…
A new study suggests that the impact of diversity efforts on nonprofit levers of power, whether top-level (chief executive officer or executive director) nonprofit administrators, board chairs or boards as a whole, yields varied results. In some cases, outcomes are felt more strongly on organizational operational functions; in others, different combinations of diversity (such as ethno-racial or gender variety among administrators, board chairs or boards)…
Gender and childlessness have always been among the leading indicators for charitable gifts in estate planning. New research has identified a top 10 list of lifetime characteristics that are most important in predicting charitable transfers. “The Emerging Potential of Longitudinal Empirical Research in Estate Planning: Examples from Charitable Bequests” is based on the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which includes nationally representative data that has…
Onboarding a new staff member is challenging in any situation, but it is even more vexing trying to onboard someone when there’s no actual “board.” Connecting a remote workforce to mission and to each other is tricky. It requires more frequent touchpoints during the process and more check-ins by team leaders and human resource managers to keep people engaged and excited, said Eric Dill, senior…
Increased compensation and inflation impacted the bottom line 9 out of 10 nonprofits and managers at those organizations remain concerned with talent acquisition and retention. But unlike one year ago, the economy and rising utility and operating costs have emerged as additional concerns. These factors and an end to most pandemic-era government funding led nearly half of respondents to report a year-over-year decrease in net…
The Equitable Giving Lab, intended to bring an equity lens to philanthropy by measuring funding for under-resourced groups, is being launched by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana. The venture received anchor funding of $3 million from google.org. The plan is for the lab to provide information about charitable giving to nonprofits focused on the LGBTQ+, BIPOC, military…
Individual churches that are members of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) were the worst performing fundraisers during 2021 of the 35 organizational categories analyzed by ECRA officials. On a positive note, ECFA members collected on average 3% more cash during 2021 than 2020. The data comes from analysis of 1,800 financial statement of the ECFA’s roughly 2,600 members totaling $19 billion in annual…
Nonprofits headed by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) leadership in Los Angeles, Calif., are emerging from the pandemic era on shakier financial footing than white-led nonprofits. While nearly two-thirds (65%) of white-led nonprofits ended their Fiscal Year 2021 with a surplus, only 55% of BIPOC-led ones did, according to a new survey. When Black-led nonprofits were broken out from the sample, fewer than…
Idaho nonprofits funnel $4.8 billion per year into the state’s economy that they raise from out-of-state sources, helping to provide critical public services in a state where residents pride themselves on limited government. As the state’s fifth largest private employer by sector, Idaho nonprofits are also an economic engine providing more than 67,000 jobs, or about 12% of Idaho’s workforce. That’s more than who work…
Most married and cohabitating couples (61.5%) still jointly agree on donations but mutual decision-making has declined from 73.4% in 2005 and women alone are increasingly making the call in households on charitable giving. Couples who decide together are typically older — in their 50s and beyond — and have children. Younger couples are more likely to make separate decisions about charitable giving or have one…