A trend among some funders at the national, regional & local level is the adoption of impact investing strategies. Foundations and large funders still provide grants, but are blending the “investment” model with traditional grants.

We’ve rounded up trends in top trends by the numbers in MN Arts Grantmaking.

Arabella Advisors on 2024 Philanthropy: What, Who, and How | Trista Harris's Philanthropy Predictions | Here’s what The Chronicle of Philanthropy says we’ll see in the coming year.

Northwest Area Foundation has changed its mission to reflect a commitment to put justice at the center of its support of Native Americans, communities of color, immigrants and refugees, and people in rural areas.

Google Ad Grants is a philanthropic initiative by Google that provides nonprofit organizations with free advertising credits of up to $10,000 per month on the Google Ads platform.

In a Linkedin post, Jim Langley, President at Langley Innovations, asks: Are you counting everything spent to put on your event? Staging costs, staff costs, morale costs and more.

Caroline Altman Smith from the Kresge Foundation shares some lessons in the hopes that they help nonprofits use their introductory meeting to begin a beautiful friendship with a potential funder.

From Nonprofit Finance FundCrafting a financial story requires a shared understanding and interpretation of your organization’s numbers and how this connects to your current and continued mission success.

A number of recent articles have covered artificial intelligence gone awry: Microsoft’s AI’s strange declarations of love. ChatGPT’s inaccuracies. Midjourney's odd human portraits with too many fingers and too many teeth. And worse, accusations of plagiarism from both human and AI.

The Nonprofit Finance Fund is a NYC-based national nonprofit finance organization, awarding loans, making investments, offering consulting services and workshops, and occasionally offering grant opportunities via other grantmakers. Recently, the Fund published two great grant/loan tools: