
5 Ways Your Grantees Can Use Storytelling to Prove Impact—and How You Can Help
Your grantees are doing incredible boots-on-the-ground work every day. Their programs are well-run. Their staff members are intelligent and engaging. [...]

3 Challenges and 4 Solutions to Increasing Scholarship Applications
Scholarship programs are critical tools for students to propel themselves forward and for schools to court and steward donors. Yet, [...]

Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?
Let’s talk about productivity. Nonprofit leaders need no convincing that this is an exciting topic, but what about frontline fundraisers [...]

Trends in Grantmaking: Don’t Leave Your Foundation’s Impact Story to Chance
If a grantmaking organization creates a funding opportunity, but there is no way for anyone to hear about it, does [...]

The 990: From Compliance to Communication
Only 10% of philanthropic foundations have a website to communicate their work. Here at Candid, we’ve been tracking those statistics [...]

How COVID-19 Changed the Nonprofit and Local Government Funding and Reporting Landscape
If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen [...]

Leveraging the SDGs to Maximize Your Impact
When measuring your impact, you probably do so in relation to the specific needs of the community you serve, but [...]

4 Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency
Candid’s mission is to get grantmakers and nonprofits the information you need to do good. But we recognize that data [...]

Best Practices for Protecting Your Organization from Cyber Security Threats
Current world events have the globe on high alert. As the situation in Ukraine has continued to evolve, many governmental [...]

From Outputs to Outcomes: Measuring the True Value of Volunteering
Danielle Holly of Common Impact explores how companies and nonprofits can capture outcomes and measure the value of volunteer programs.