Research, Data, Reports

Reframing Childhood Obesity: Cultural Insights on Nutrition, Weight, and Food Systems
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October, 2022
Vanderbilt University Cultural Context of Health & Wellbeing Initiative, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released a new report that focuses on three key areas in which insights and examples from abroad can improve USA health policy around childhood obesity. The report's goal is to create a mutual understanding that: food is more than nutrition, health is more than weight, and diet is more than individual choice. The report presents the most effective and sustainable efforts to improve child nutrition while taking into account cultural contexts and colonial legacies in...
Avoiding the Glass Cliff
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October, 2022
The Building Movement Project's report identifies trends seen and experienced among nonprofit Executive Directors and Chief Executives of color, particularly when following an outgoing white leader. This report offers insight and advice to boards about how to help avoid these pitfalls, both leading up to a transition and after a new leader is hired.
Racial Equity In Lean Foundations: Closing the Gap Between Intention and Impact
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September, 2022
This report assesses the philanthropic landscape, levels of giving over the past five years, and donor behavior to provide insights, context, and benchmarks. The report contains analytics and observations on the charitable gift annuity (CGA) and charitable remainder trust (CRT) activity during the calendar year 2021 for 101 nonprofit organizations and the BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund.
Philanthropic Landscape Report, 11th Edition
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September, 2022
This report features essential philanthropic research from all major sources in the industry by assessing key areas that nonprofit leaders and fundraisers may want to monitor as part of planning and strategy. Insight is offered on gift planning, high net worth giving, and emerging digital fundraising trends that are becoming more prominent in the philanthropic ecosystem.
Philanthropy Always Sounds Like Someone Else: A Portrait of High Net Worth Donors of Color
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August, 2022
This report highlights the giving practices of high net worth (HNW) donors of color. Until recently, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) with HNW and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) have been an apparitional presence across philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Yet, emerging research shows that there are at least 1.3 million HNW households of color in the United States with net liquid assets of one million dollars or more. The report research demonstrates that HNW donors of color have great potential to move millions of dollars and inspire other hidden figures in philanthropy.
2022 Annual Charitable Gift Report
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August, 2022
This report assesses the philanthropic landscape, levels of giving over the past five years, and donor behavior to provide insights, context, and benchmarks. The report contains analytics and observations on the charitable gift annuity (CGA) and charitable remainder trust (CRT) activity during the calendar year 2021 for 101 nonprofit organizations and the BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund.
New Survey Report: Global Trends and Strategic Time Horizons in Philanthropy 2022
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August, 2022
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, with support from The University of Chicago, published its second biennial report, which is the only global survey of philanthropy that includes views not only on reasons for giving, but on causes, geographic flows of funding, giving timeframes, decision making, and next-generation involvement. The study included responses from 150 philanthropies from 30 countries. The report expands on RPA’s previous research in 2019 and 2020 to understand the factors that affect a philanthropy’s consideration in choosing the length of time for which it will remain active.
Landscape of Integrated Software for Community Foundations
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July, 2022
This report examines the complex workings of community foundations and provides insight on the best software that can steward the many types of relationships, finances, and activities these foundations take part in. It highlights the pros and cons of different approaches, how specific tools on the market today fit into these approaches, and how they do (or don’t) work together to provide the functionality foundations need.
Much Alarm, Less Action: Foundations and Climate Change
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July, 2022
This report examines how CEOs of U.S.-based foundations and nonprofits perceive the issue of climate change and how it will affect their work. Though 60 percent of those surveyed believe climate change is an urgent problem, a relatively small percentage of foundation dollars go toward efforts to address these issues. The research reveals that leaders of climate-focused nonprofits and foundations see opportunity for philanthropy to engage more deeply with the issue of climate change. The report contains a list of resources for funders as well as snapshots of both climate foundation leaders’...
Stepping Up: Strategic Ultra-High-Net-Worth Philanthropy in Action
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July, 2022
The Center for Strategic Philanthropy explores and highlights several ways in which experienced philanthropists are putting their capital to work. Their latest report includes a series of case studies that provide concrete examples of what strategic philanthropy looks like in practice. The report also offers practical guidance and lessons learned from funders themselves.
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