Grants were awarded in support of efforts to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other urgent issues, including climate change, growing inequality, systemic racism, and the continuing erosion of democratic norms and institutions….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsMetLife Foundation awards $4 million in COVID-19 relief grants
The total includes grants of $375,000 to Breaking Ground and the YMCA of Greater New York to address the impact of COVID-19 on the homeless in New York City, $1.25 million in support of food banks in communities where MetLife has a significant presence, and $2 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation in support of minority- and women-owned businesses….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsMeyer Memorial Trust awards $21 million to Oregon nonprofits
The grants were awarded through the trust’s Annual Funding Opportunity, which supports investments aimed at addressing racial, health, and economic inequities through local and statewide policy reform and systems change efforts….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsJohn Wayne Cancer Institute in Los Angeles receives $8 million gift
The gift from the Rosalie and Harold Brown Charitable Foundation will support clinical research programs focused on immunotherapy and precision genomic medicine….
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Center for Effective Philanthropy | https://cep.org/feed/Center for Disaster Philanthropy awards $2 million for COVID-19 relief
Grants made through the CDP COVID-19 Response Fund include five awards totaling $900,000 to U.S. organizations and nine grants totaling $1.1 million to international organizations in support of recovery efforts in communities around the globe….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsBerggruen Institute awards $3 million to UCLA School of Public Affairs
The grant will support the production and dissemination of the Berggruen Governance Index, which evaluates countries based on the quality of their political and administrative governance….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsWilmington College receives $16.8 million from alumnus
The record-breaking bequest from a lifelong supporter who wished to remain anonymous will be used to grow the college’s endowment….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsFAU receives $20 million gift for Holocaust and Jewish studies
The largest gift in FAU history will create the Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters….
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Our recommendations for giving in 2020
You can have a major, positive impact today by choosing to support organizations backed by strong evidence: our top charities.
We recommend the nonprofits that offer the most impact per dollar we’re aware of. In fact, we estimate that you can save a life by donating $3,000-$5,000 to our top recommendation.[1]
If you’re a longtime donor, you’ll recognize most of this year’s top charities. You may even wonder why our list hasn’t changed much. However, a tremendous amount of research—truly thousands of hours—has been done to ensure that these organizations continue to meet our high standards. And although there are many familiar names, one is entirely new: New Incentives.
We’re proud to share our recommendations and grateful to you for considering supporting them. We hope you’ll read on!
Summary
In this post, we’ll cover:
How to give in 2020
Our work on COVID-19
Key research updates
Introducing New Incentives
Giving to GiveWell’s operations
How to give efficiently
Ways to learn more
How to give in 2020
Our nine top charities are the best opportunities we’ve found for donors to save or improve lives.
We conduct an intense, monthslong assessment of each top charity before determining it can be added to our list. All top charities meet our high standards for evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and transparency. We believe they will use donations well.
However, our work to ensure that our top charities meet our standards isn’t the end of our process. We continually assess where funding is most needed within our list of top charities. Donors can support the highest-priority needs by giving to our Maximum Impact Fund.
The Maximum Impact Fund is our top recommendation for donors who want to do as much good as possible with their gift. We regularly make grants from the Maximum Impact Fund to our top charities. We direct these grants where we believe they will achieve the most good at the time they’re given.
Our top charities’ funding needs constantly change. For example, a top charity might identify an opportunity to work in a new country that requires more funding than it has on hand. Another might receive a large grant that fills its immediate funding needs. We continually monitor these changes and re-prioritize our top charities’ needs.
Giving to the Maximum Impact Fund is the best way to take advantage of our latest research and to ensure your
In Search of the Elusive Multiyear General Operating Support: The Role of Nonprofit Leadership
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Center for Effective Philanthropy | https://cep.org/feed/Rajant Hosts UNICEF Fundraiser to Support World's Starving Children
Virtual Event with Musicians on November 19th, 9 AM to 5 PM ESTMalvern, PA – November 19, 2020: Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, will host a fundraiser to bring awareness and donations for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children in 192 countries worldwide. The virtual event on November 19th, 2020, will be streamed “live” via Rajant’s YouTube channel…
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Realwire: Charity | https://www.realwire.com/rss/?id=531&row=&view=SynopsisKresge commits $30 million for racial equity initiatives
The commitment includes approximately $8 million for national racial justice organizations and $22 million in general operating support for local organizations in Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, and Fresno….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsInaugural grant recipients of Bezos Earth Fund announced
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced in an Instagram post on Monday grants totaling $791 million to sixteen organizations working to address climate change and its impacts on Indigenous and BIPOC communities….
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Center for Effective Philanthropy | https://cep.org/feed/Individual giving to performing arts organizations continues to fall
A report from arts consultancy TRG Arts and arts data specialists Purple Seven found that aggregate revenue to performing arts organizations in the U.S. and Canada in the first nine months of 2020 fell 14 percent on a year-over-year basis, with the average gift size down 24 percent….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsDynamics of International Giving: How Heuristics Shape Individual Donor Preferences
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. State restrictions on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly pervasive across the globe. Although this crackdown has been shown to have a negative impact on public funding flows, we know little about how it affects private philanthropy. How does information about crackdown abroad, as well as organizational attributes of nonprofits, affect individual donors’ willingness to donate internationally? Using a survey experiment, we find that learning about repressive NGO environments increases generosity in that already-likely donors are willing to donate substantially more to legally besieged nonprofits. This generosity persists when mediated by two organizational-level heuristics: NGO issue areas and main funding sources. We discuss the implications of our results on how nonprofits can use different framing appeals to increase fundraising at a time when traditional public donor funding to such organizations is decreasing.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly | https://journals.sagepub.com/action/showFeed?ui=0&mi=ehikzz&ai=2b4&jc=nvsb&type=etoc&feed=rssGates Foundation commits $70 million for COVID-19 vaccines
The commitment includes an additional $50 million to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance’s Advance Market Commitment for COVID-19 Vaccines and $20 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in support of its efforts to jumpstart the development of an additional slate of promising vaccine candidates….
Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsSalk Institute receives grant to accelerate plant-based carbon capture
The five-year, $2 million grant from Sempra Energy will support the institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative, which is working to optimize a plant’s natural ability to capture and sequester carbon in soil….
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