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This report shares eight tips and tricks designed to help small organizations streamline their fundraising strategy and focus time on the areas that are going to have the biggest impact.

This report, based on in-depth interviews with leaders of 11 limited life foundations, illustrates the ways in which limited life foundations approach spending down in nine key areas, including investing, grantmaking and strategy, and communications. 

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 a how-to guide for year-end giving success. It provides step-by-step plans to maximize fundraising, explains how to market campaigns, provides best-practices advice, and discusses what to do when the calendar winds down.

This report, part of a global collaborative effort led by researchers at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, examines broad trends and practices within the Canadian foundation landscape. 

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 report examines how nonprofits have changed because of COVID-19. Spanning the years 2020 to 2023, this report examines the changes nonprofits made in response to COVID-19 and looks at the characteristics of the most adaptive nonprofits. 

This guide explores how today’s nonprofits can use AI tools to improve cost and operational efficiency for a smooth-running organization that is able to support its mission and beneficiaries with abundance. It includes an overview and key considerations for using AI in fundraising communications as well as a guide to implementing AI in a nonprofit communication strategy. 

This report explores the unique role that high-net-worth donors to women's funds and foundations play in catalyzing support for women's and girls' causes.

This report examines American Jewish giving and volunteering in 2022, with a strong emphasis on religious giving and giving to Israel-focused organizations.