Do nonprofits with a Candid Seal of Transparency raise more funds?

This white paper describes research to understand the link between nonprofit transparency (i.e., earning a Candid Seal of Transparency) and donor giving. Building on previous research, the study examines a sample of 148,786 U.S. 501(c)(3) public charities and provides updated insights into which organizational characteristics best predict being transparent and whether there is a monetary benefit (in increased contributions) to being transparent. Further analyses examine the impact of transparency for small nonprofits (those with revenue or expenses under $1 million)

Agindo em conjunto para elevar a filantropia: Orientação da WINGS sobre como criar um ecossistema de apoio

O guia mostra como um ecossistema de apoio à filantropia pode ser construído. Ele utiliza um conjunto de ferramentas e abordagens que podem ser adaptadas por pessoas em diferentes países para construir o sistema que desejam, mapeando as relações entre organizações e identificando quem faz o quê para impulsionar a filantropia. Ele foi elaborado para permitir a criatividade e a invenção. O objetivo é inspirar a área, sugerindo maneiras de aprimorar seu trabalho, em vez de estabelecer regras rígidas e padronizadas. Embora sejam sugeridas etapas específicas, estas não implicam um processo rígido a ser seguido. A ação depende do contexto e das necessidades específicas do setor filantrópico

Priorities for Strategic Climate and Environmental Philanthropy

Climate disasters—including intensified droughts, wildfires, storms, and flooding—are on the rise globally, with cascading negative impacts on communities and ecosystems. Philanthropists can play a crucial role in addressing these challenges, but currently, only about 2 percent of global philanthropic contributions are directed toward climate mitigation. Increased strategic giving is needed across many areas of climate and environmental initiatives.This report offers guidance for philanthropists looking to begin or deepen their climate and environmental giving. Drawing on insights from over fifty expert interviews, as well as the Institute's ongoing climate and environmental work, the report presents ten recommendations for philanthropists and highlights four strategic areas where philanthropic capital can maximize impact. With these insights, philanthropists can help remove financial and logistical barriers, scale proven solutions, and create new opportunities to address climate challenges

Decline of christianity in the U.S. Has Slowed, May Have Leveled Off: Findings from the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study

The 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) and other Pew Research Center polling find that the Christian share of the population, after years of decline, has been relatively stable since 2019. And the religiously unaffiliated population, after rising rapidly for decades, has leveled off – at least temporarily. At present:62% of U.S. adults describe themselves as Christians: 40% are Protestant, 19% are Catholic, and 3% are other Christians.29% are religiously unaffiliated: 5% are atheist, 6% are agnostic, and 19% identify religiously as "nothing in particular."7% belong to religions other than Christianity: 2% are Jewish, and 1% each are Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu (all figures are rounded)

Defending and Advancing Climate Justice Policies: A comprehensive and deep analysis by state and national policy experts of pathways for action

This report is a collaborative effort by policy experts across sectors such as environmental, climate, racial, public health, and economic justice, designed to address potential challenges to climate and environmental justice in the United States under the current makeup of leadership in Washington, DC. It also proposes mitigating actions to address these threats, including at the state and local levels, as well as strategic litigation and federal oversight actions

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and American Modernism at MoMA

This report examines Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's central role in the founding and shaping of the Museum of Modern Art. It focuses specifically on her collection gift of 1935 and the way that it defined the museum's understanding of modernism, specifically American modernism. MoMA has historically been thought of as an institution dominated by white men, both in terms of the trustees and the painters whose works were exhibited on its walls. My research, however, subverts this narrative, and argues that a woman quietly ran MoMA in its early years and tried to exert an inclusive agenda

The Motheral Report and Land Reform in Iran, 1952-1963

In 1957, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi commissioned US agricultural economist Joseph R. Motheral to study Iran's land tenure system and propose reforms. The resulting Motheral Report laid the foundation for later land redistribution programs, which sought to address, through rural development, the issue of political instability. The report drew upon the Shah's pre-existing objectives and efforts to advocate for US support in implementing large-scale land reform, including financial assistance and technical training, and outlined a five-year timeline for redistribution. While the report failed to spur immediate action, its key points shaped subsequent efforts by both the US and Iranian governments, including Prime Minister Ali Amini's land reform efforts in 1961 and the Shah's White Revolution in 1963

Strengthening Feminist Futures Through multi-year, core, and flexible funding partnerships with womenâs funds

Feminist movements around the world comprise diverse actors and stakeholders, ranging from global organizations to local grassroots groups. Within this vibrant ecosystem, women's funds play a crucial role as feminist philanthropic organizations. Different from women's organizations, the primary purpose of women's funds is to mobilize resources rather than providing direct services and programmes.Women's funds have a long track record of knowing where and how to engage with and support organizations working to achieve gender justice in their communities, countries, and regions. Today, they are reaching women's rights movements in some of the most challenging contexts and are at the leading edge of the most pressing human rights issues.These organizations work with those most vulnerable, such as widows, LGBTQI+ groups, and indigenous communities. This report, backed by 10 case studies, aims to demonstrate the power (and track record) of partnering with women's funds to continue building feminist futures. Through these, we hope to give justice to and exemplify the results that can arise from multi-year, sustained, core, and flexible support. We also hope to inspire the reader to reflect on their existing experience and knowledge of funding models, and how it could be inspired by Fenomenal Funds

Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Latin America for Climate and Biodiversity

This report represents a collaborative initiative with Latimpacto to explore and analyse Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) as transformative mechanisms addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Commissioned with the support of WINGS to advance Latimpacto's mission of fostering impactful investment and collaboration and anchored in their participatory ecosystem mapping methodology, the study delves into the structures, dynamics, and achievements of MSPs across the region, focusing on five key countries: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.This publication was co-funded by the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of Latimpacto and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union

"Training as against Doing": Teaching the Language of Development at the Saudi Institute of Public Administration

This report observes the activities of the Ford Foundation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1962 to 1972), which officially proceeded under the auspices of "administrative reform," and the contract logics by which it delivered such assistance. The Ford Foundation's efforts to reorganize and staff the newly established Saudi bureaucracy were considered a preliminary step within a larger endeavor to raise the capacity of the Kingdom's human resources - simultaneously understood to be both the targets and means of national development. At this time, economic development in the Middle East was bundled with programming across public administration, education, and agricultural projects, and emphasized training as a primary investment in the capacity to modernize both national economies and individual subjectivities. The nationals of countries classified as "less developed" were thus the focal subjects -- and objects -- of development assistance, which affirmed a conceit held by Ford Foundation experts that the implementation of development plans must be undertaken by a client government's own manpower, also developing as it were. In the interest of cultivating the government employee base necessary to bring about administrative reform in Saudi Arabia, the Ford Foundation proposed (in 1964) and helped to coordinate (beginning in 1965) an English Language Program designed for Saudi civil servants from within the Kingdom's Institute of Public Administration. It carefully supervised the recruitment and staffing of this program, which was executed through an "unusually complex" arrangement of subcontracts with other non-Saudi organizations. Correspondences and reports related to this program populate the records filed under the Ford Foundation grant 06290135 and they indicate the Foundation's considerable focus on training, amid its concurrent, far-reaching advisory efforts in Saudi Arabia