PathFinder

This report, based on a survey of 150 program officers, provides a comprehensive collection of benchmarking data on topics ranging from the professional and educational backgrounds of program officers, to technical information about the structure of the program officer role, to program officers’ perspectives on certain aspects of their work. 

This report examines how the Annie E. Casey Foundation has been working with a network of grantees to build their advocacy capacity. 

This report looks at charitable giving in Canada by capturing and analyzing the online fundraising habits and donor experiences of 152 Canadian charities. It reviews three critical areas of fundraising success: email signup, email fundraising, and the online giving experience.

This report aims to help businesses that want to support a worthy cause or a nonprofits that want to amplify their fundraising efforts to forge a sustainable, compliant cause marketing partnership.

This report exposes how the traditional approach to grantmaking — project-based grants, typically awarded in one-year increments — often works in opposition to the lofty aspirations that grantmakers and their nonprofit and community partners have for catalyzing meaningful social change. It makes the case that flexible grants, awarded over longer periods of time, can create a more generative ethos for nonprofits and grantmakers alike to achieve their vision for a better world.

This report provides details about how crowdfunding fits into the philanthropic landscape, who crowdfunding donors are, their motivations, how they differ from typical charitable donors, the kinds of causes they support, and both donor and non-donor perceptions of this vehicle.

This report provides critical insights on gift activity during 2022 and highlights trends and opportunities for nonprofits.

This report explains state charitable solicitation registration requirements. It includes information on common forms of solicitation that may require solicitation, an explanation of the registration forms and processes, how to approach online fundraising requirements, and more.

This report discusses the creation of centralized data hubs known as "data lakes" to make it easier for nonprofit team members to access information and use it to make better decisions. It explains how to decide if a data lake is right for an organization, then explores four steps to get the best possible results.

This report is a field guide that helps readers as they create a partnership strategy and grapple with questions about with whom to partner and how to make those partnerships meaningful and effective. It walks readers through common stages of a partnership and offers actionable tools, questions to explore, and examples of what this work looked like for one nonprofit organization.