Choosing Your Capital Campaign Support System: A Guide
A capital campaign comes with high stakes. Your organization’s financial goals are ambitious, and the projects you hope to fund…
Ballot Measure Advocacy – Charity Lawyer Blog
501(c)(3)s can play a significant role in shaping public policy around issues related to their exempt purposes. Advocacy can take…
Navigating the Equity Journey at Lean Foundations
In the evolving landscape of philanthropy, lean funders — those operating with few or no staff — are playing a…
3 Common Nonprofit Audit Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Independent financial audits may be mandated by your state’s charitable solicitation licensing requirements. Although they can seem like a lot…
As the Planet Heats Up, New Trends Drive Climate Giving
After the hottest year on record, 2024 has continued to bring unprecedented heat and extreme weather events. Today, 80 percent…
Nonprofit Domestications – Charity Lawyer Blog
The state in which you incorporate your nonprofit organization is called the nonprofit’s state of domicile. Sometimes nonprofits may determine…
Insights from Grantees: A CEP Blog Series
Funders have used CEP’s Grantee Perception Report to gather candid, comparative feedback from their grantees for more than two decades.…
A Framework for Democracy Philanthropy
This post originally appeared on The Art of Association blog. It is challenging for philanthropic funders to get started and…
How Giving Circles Have Shaped the Latino Community Foundation’s Grantmaking — And What Comes Next
At the heart of the Latino Community Foundation’s (LCF) mission to unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos are…
Four ‘T’s for Better Funding Relationships and Healthier Nonprofits
As the old saying goes “Victory has a thousand fathers.” And few victories come as close to that claim as…