The Foundation for Social Improvement

Social Movements and Community

Blackbaud Institute | November 03, 2021

The Blackbaud Institute, a research division of Blackbaud, the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, released a new report, Tipping Point: Aligning with Supporters in a Changing World. The Blackbaud Institute worked with Edge Research to conduct the survey of more than 1,160 nonprofit professionals and more than 1,000 donors between June 28 and July 23, 2021. The results of the survey reveal a disconnect between organizations' evaluation of their performance and do...

Fundraising

Windfall Data | April 06, 2022

Windfall Data, Inc., the most trusted and accurate provider of wealth intelligence for nonprofits, announced new capabilities that give prospect research and development teams additional insights so they can precisely identify a larger pool of individuals likely to be high value donors and constituents. While wealth screening is important for any fundraising team, many existing wealth screening solutions on the market deliver data that grows stale over time or lacks in accuracy. W...

Shopify | February 22, 2020

Online commerce platform Shopify on Friday said it has joined the nonprofit association behind Facebook's planned Libra cryptocurrency. Canada-based Shopify signed on as a member of the Libra Association after a string of companies dropped out in the face of criticism by regulators worried the borderless digital money is a threat to national sovereignty. "We spend a lot of our time thinking about how to make commerce better in parts of the world where money and banking could be far bett...

Fundraising, Nonprofit Technology

FreeWill | August 24, 2022

FreeWill, a social-good enterprise at the nexus of philanthropy and estate planning, today announced that its Crypto for Charity platform will eliminate transaction fees for real-time donations of cryptocurrency to support nonprofit causes, lowering fees on donations made through Crypto for Charity's website, www.cryptoforcharity.io from 3.95% to zero, effective immediately. "We're incredibly excited to announce that we've become the first to zero am...