Episode 34: Candid

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Candid Learning, Foundation Directory Online, Funding Insights, Nonprofit Leadership

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“Simply put non-profits matter in communities and people depend on their services”

In this episode - our featured voices are Jacob Harold the Executive Vice President and Anna Koob the Director of Data Standards of Candid. Back in April 2020 when we decided to create this series on Covid-19’s impact first on nonprofits and then on small businesses in the San Francisco Bay we like you had no idea how long the pandemic would go on and what the health and economic impact would be on our community. Over these past nine months we’ve talked to over 33 nonprofits and small businesses about how Covid-19 and the subsequent economic meltdown is impacting their ability to continue to provide services and products as well as to just survive.

We wanted to end 2020 hosting an interview with Jacob and Anna and ask them to walk us through their findings, insights and recommendations from their published national and state analysis on how many nonprofits will shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic

Jacob Harold

Jacob is Executive Vice President and leads Candid’s analysis of the social sector, crafting raw data into insights, practices, and a shared narrative for the field.

As president and CEO of GuideStar, he led its effort to unite with Foundation Center to form Candid in 2019. At GuideStar, Jacob oversaw a tripling of GuideStar’s reach, a new focus on programmatic data, and major partnerships with organizations like Facebook and the Gates Foundation.

Jacob’s philanthropy background runs from grassroots to global. He started his career as a grassroots organizer working on climate change for Green Corps, Greenpeace USA and Rainforest Action Network. He consulted for nonprofits and foundations at the Bridgespan Group from 2005 to 2006. Between 2006 and 2012, Jacob led grantmaking for the Hewlett Foundation’s Philanthropy Program; he managed $30 million in grants for a 21st-century smart-giving infrastructure. He joined GuideStar in 2012.

Jacob has been named to the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50 every year since 2014. He has written extensively on climate change and philanthropic strategy. His essays have been course materials at Stanford, Duke, Wharton, Harvard, Oxford, and Tsinghua.

He earned an A.B. from Duke and an M.B.A. from Stanford. He has additional training from Green Corps, Bain, the Chinese Academy of Sciences/Santa Fe Institute, and MIT. Jacob serves as a member of the board of the US Climate Action Network.

Jacob is from Winston-Salem, NC, where his parents ran small community-based nonprofit organizations. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Carolyn Sufrin, a physician-anthropologist, and their two sons

Anna Koob

Anna is the Director of Research Standards and makes meaning of the wealth of data that Candid collects. As a member of the insights department, she guides efforts to derive findings and distill trends about the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

Anna has spent her entire career in nonprofits. Early on, Anna worked as a volunteer coordinator at Wisconsin Public Television and as the lead fundraiser at a small labor rights organization in Chicago. From 2010 to 2012, she supported research efforts on the nexus between climate change and political stability at the University of Texas’ Strauss Center, conducting field research in Ethiopia and Senegal. Anna joined Foundation Center’s research department in 2013, starting as a data analyst and accumulating project management and process development responsibilities along the way. Since GuideStar and Foundation Center joined forces in 2019, she’s been applying her analytical background to the challenge of leveraging Candid’s combined data repository to present a more holistic picture of the nonprofit sector.

She holds a master’s degree in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Candid

For a combined 88 years, Foundation Center and GuideStar each helped change the world by giving people the information they needed to do good.

Our mission - Candid gets you the information you need to do good.Our mission - Candid gets you the information you need to do good.
Our values
We’re driven. We make an impact in everything we do.
We’re direct. We communicate with integrity and clarity.
We’re accessible. We ask, “How can we help?” and we mean it.
We’re curious. We listen, collaborate, and innovate.
We’re inclusive. We incorporate equity, inclusion, and respect for diverse perspectives in all our work.

What we do - Every year, millions of nonprofits spend trillions of dollars around the world. Candid finds out where that money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters.

Through research, collaboration, and training, Candid connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it. Candid's data tools on nonprofits, foundations, and grants are the most comprehensive in the world. Foundation Center and GuideStar joined forces to become Candid, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Learn more about Candid’s vision of a social sector capable of tackling the critical challenges and opportunities of our time through their 2030 Vision Plan

To find out more about Candid’s wonderful services please visit these other websites Candid Learning, Foundation Directory Online, GuideStar, IssueLab and Philanthropy News Digest

Donation

Candid provides trusted information, data-driven tools, research, analysis, best practices, and trainings to help the social sector increase its ability to affect change and transform lives. When you support Candid, you support the millions of people who depend on our programs and services to make the world a better place.

Candid has joined forces with a community of organizations also fighting the impacts of COVID-19 to create the PowerOf platform

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“This crisis has reminded us of the important, critical role of all parts of society of the non-profit sector, of mutual aid networks, of government, of business. And I hope has just, shaken us out of our stupor in how much, we rely on each other and we rely on these institutions”

— Jacob Harold, Executive Vice President, Candid

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