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This report discusses how to write a case for support, including why its important, what questions to ask, and how to deliver the message. (The link will download a PDF file of the report.)

This report is an explainer to help readers break through the buzzwords and find new ways to harness AI. It includes definitions and nonprofit use cases for machine learning, chatbots, large language models, and predictive analytics. 

This study analyzed the impact of diseases of despair on mortality within the Appalachian Region, focusing on mortality from three main causes: alcohol, prescription drug, and illegal drug overdose; suicide; and alcoholic liver disease/cirrhosis of the liver. (The link downnloads a PDF file of the updated 2022 report.)

This report is a guide that outlines the process for how charities turn their raw data into wisdom and informed action. 

This report explores how behavioral science can be applied to the act of giving and looks at examples from the Canadian context.

This report provides step-by-step instructions on how to plan, prepare, and apply for grant funding. It includes a timeline that covers strategic planning, the approval process, administrative requirements, researching grants, assembling the grant team, developing the investment justification statement, and submitting and tracking the application.

This report is designed to help charities better understand the role of qualitative research in informing decisions and helping to identify what works. It outlines the different ways qualitative research can be used at each stage of a program or strategy cycle, and introduces five key principles underpinning good quality qualitative research. 

This report explores how funding from local arts agencies impacts arts vibrancy and its underlying dimensions.

This report provides the first comprehensive look of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted inclusive growth across 192 U.S. metro areas with populations of at least 250,000. This data interactive provides decisionmakers in the nation’s largest metro areas with a roadmap to understand how their individual places performed during this period.

This report contains some simple steps grantseekers can take to better align their mission with that of their funders.