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This report looks at cryptocurrency trends, what they mean for the charitable sector, and how charitably inclined investors are approaching crypto donations.

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

This report is designed to help funders and those who implement programs realize their ambitious social change efforts. It explores theory of change models, processes, and products as well as key theory of change concepts, benefits, and limitations.

This report explains how to build development reports that help to strategically pursue goals.

This report explores the emerging vehicles of philanthropy, such as crowdfunding, online giving, mobile giving, workplace giving, donor-advised funds, and social impact initiatives. Eight countries with significantly diverse cultures participated in this global study: Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Findings are shared in a series of reports, including eight country reports and one global report.

This report describes the goals, strategies, and short-term achievements of the Greater Washington Community Foundation and its partners in developing and implementing cash transfer strategies at the height of the pandemic.

This report demonstrates what the Canadian nonprofit sector has long known but not had the data to prove: its workforce is incredibly diverse but undervalued. It argues that in order to improve conditions for the nonprofit sector’s diverse workforce, the sector needs immediate action from funders, governments, and nonprofit leaders.

This report draws on account-level data from 13,000 donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts to examine differences among these accounts, account-level patterns of money coming in (contributions) and money going out (grants), differences in giving by fund size, and changes in DAF giving over time.

This report helps readers better understand the trends around donor-advised funds (DAFs) and their role in the philanthropic landscape, as well as how much is being put into DAFs and how much is being granted from these funds.

This report looks at a plan to establish an early warning system for Michigan nonprofits at risk of going under. (The link downloads a PDF file of the report.)