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A lively discussion with Pat Duffy, the co-founder of The Giving Block about where crypto philanthropy is and important lessons from 2021. Is it time for your nonprofit to start accepting cryptocurrency? What are the questions and issues that might come up? We discuss the topic in depth. Data from 2021 in Crypto Philanthropy from… Read more »
Nonprofit news for the week of Jan 24th, 2022. ‘Red Flags’ At Nonprofit Backing U.S. Capitol Rioters Experts see lots to worry about with the far-right endorsed Patriot Freedom Fund, a registered nonprofit organization fundraising money to support people charged with crimes involving the events of January 6th, 2021. As reported by NPR, the fund, led… Read more »
Nonprofit news summary. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Draws Thousands To Community Service Across Country From Des Moines to Portland to Charleston and everywhere in between, thousands of volunteers across the country participated in a national day of service, often in partnership with local-based nonprofit and community organizations. MLK Day is the only federally-recognized national day of service and is… Read more »
Nonprofit News for mid January. Acquisition of Network For Good, Backed By Provide Equity Firm, Rolls Up Numerous Nonprofit Technology Products The same venture firm that brought EveryAction, Social Solutions and CyberGrants under one corporate roof has added Network For Good to its roster. The as yet unnamed umbrella firm is being funded by UK-based private… Read more »
Special podcast feature on a recent research report revealing how many children have lost parents due to COVID. Whole Whale’s Nick Azualy interviews Dan Treglia about the report recently featured in the New York Times. More than 167,000 children have been robbed, by COVID-19, of a parent, grandparent, or other in-home caregiver on whom they… Read more »
Nonprofit News summary. Nonprofits Struggle To Compete With For-Profit Businesses For Staff Amid rising inflation, rising wages, decreased unemployment, and the so-called “great resignation,” nonprofit organizations are struggling to maintain and hire staff, according to reporting from The New York Times. While for-profit businesses lost more jobs during the pandemic, the nonprofit sector has struggled more to… Read more »
Nick Azulay, Maura Paxton and George Weiner share their predictions for the nonprofit industry in 2022. They cover Email shifts, USPS hikes, social movements associated with the election and potential Roe V. Wade rulings and many other trends that may come.
Nonprofit news in December. Nonprofit Job Gains Slow As Sector Approaches Pre-Pandemic Employment Levels According to data from the Center for Civil Society Studies (CCSS) at Johns Hopkins University as reported by the Nonprofit Times, nonprofit job growth slowed in November but shows that most nonprofit categories are expected to achieve near full employment by the… Read more »
We talk with Magali the Co-founder & Chief Revenue Officer at atlasGO about how the platform saw an explosion of use during the pandemic. The most popular activities used to fundraise quickly expanded beyond walks and runs to things like gardening for a cause and atlasGO supported all of them. About Magali Mathieu Magali is… Read more »
Nonprofit news for the week of December 6th, 2021 GivingTuesday Raises Record $2.7 Billion In Donations Annual day of generosity GivingTuesday has generated approximately $2.7 billion in donations, according to the folks at givingtuesday.org. The record-setting day of generosity topped 2020’s giving sum by 9%. While the increase in donations from 2019 to 2020 was, percentage-wise,… Read more »
