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Introducing Custom Liquidation: A Better Way to Donate Stock
Daffy now allows members to make a recommendation when they contribute stock on when and how to liquidate the donated securities.
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Voices for Good: Support Your Favorite Podcasters & Raise Money for Charity This Holiday Season
Now through Giving Tuesday (Dec 2), support your favorite podcasters and raise money for charity.
What's New on Daffy
Celebrating Four Years of Helping People Be More Generous at Daffy
As Daffy celebrates its 4th birthday today, we are happy to share that the data suggests that software really can make people more generous.
Fundraising, What's New on Daffy
Spread Your Generosity Further with Daffy Campaigns
Daffy Campaigns now support up to 15 charities in one campaign, and split donations evenly or by donor choice.
What's New on Daffy, Workplace Giving
How the Figma IPO is a $100M Win for Charity
Figma’s IPO unlocked $100M for charity. Learn how this program set a new standard, and how your company can follow their lead.
Giving
Why Trish Gives with Daffy
In a conversation with nonprofit leader and Daffy member Trish Davis, she shares how Daffy helps her give with more intention and stay organized.
What's New on Daffy, Fundraising
Invite, Inspire & Raise More with Daffy Campaign Manager
From sending invites to tracking donations and following up with donors, Daffy Campaign Manager has everything you need.
Fundraising, What's New on Daffy
📣 Daffy Campaigns: Click. Launch. Inspire.
We've made it even easier to create campaigns with customizable templates, AI tools, and more.
What's New on Daffy
Daffy and Gelt Partner to Make Tax-Smart Charitable Giving Easier
Gelt has partnered with Daffy to provide their clients with a modern, tax-smart charitable giving solution, with waived membership fees through 2025.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
How AI Will Reshape Giving
Discover how Daffy is using AI to make giving faster, smarter, and more accessible—so everyone can give like they have an advisor.
Giving, Fundraising
How We Turned $92M Market Gains into #GainsforGood
From a $10 million goal to $92 million in donations: Here's how the Daffy community turned their market gains into #GainsforGood.
Giving, What's New on Daffy
Two New Halal ETFs to Help You Give More Generously This Ramadan
We’re proud to announce the addition of two Halal investment options during the holy month of Ramadan.
Giving
Most Popular Charities on Daffy in 2024
The Top 20 Charities on Daffy for 2024 are here! With Daffy, you can support nearly any 501(c)(3) in the U.S., so explore these top charities and find the cause that inspires your next donation!
Giving
Let’s Close the Trillion-Dollar Generosity Gap
The U.S. has a “Generosity Gap”—the difference between what people want to give and what they actually give. Closing it could unlock $1.6T for charity.
What's New on Daffy, Giving, Company News
DAFs Are Growing Fast. Daffy is Growing 4.4X Faster.
Daffy grew 4.4X faster than the DAF industry in 2024. Read our Year in Review to see how we’re transforming the future of giving.
Giving
Be More Generous in 2025: 4 Steps to Setting & Achieving a Giving Goal
If you're looking to give back more regularly in 2025, here’s our 4-step guide for doing it.
What's New on Daffy
Welcoming Solana to Daffy
We’re proud to be the first major donor-advised fund to offer our members the ability to invest their charitable funds in Solana.
Tax Strategies, Giving
Your Charitable Deductions Tax Guide (2024 & 2025)
Maximize your tax savings and charitable impact in 2024 and 2025 by understanding the latest IRS charitable contribution limits, donation rules, tax strategies, and more.
What's New on Daffy
Betterment and Daffy Make Giving Easier and More Tax-Efficient
Betterment customers can now contribute low-cost-basis securities and donate through Daffy.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
Robinhood & Daffy Make It Easy to Donate Crypto to Charity
We’re excited to be the first to partner with Robinhood to enable their customers to easily donate crypto to over 1.7M+ charities through Daffy.
Giving, What's New on Daffy
Let’s Raise $10M for Charity with Gains for Good
Donate your appreciated stock or crypto on Daffy to avoid capital gains taxes and enter our Gains for Good challenge to win more $$ for charity.
What's New on Daffy, Workplace Giving
Private Stock, Public Good: Unlocking $2.2 Trillion for Charity
We're taking a bold step to help unlock $2.2 trillion in private stock for charity through a new workplace-giving program.
What's New on Daffy
Celebrating 3 Years of Daffy: Helping People Be More Generous, More Often
As we celebrate three years of Daffy, Co-Founder and CEO Adam Nash shares inspiring member stories and why our team is excited about what’s next.
What's New on Daffy
Whether You Have $10 or $10M, Transferring Your DAF Just Got 10x Easier
We’ve integrated Chariot’s DAFpay, making it even easier for you to transfer part or all of their existing DAF to Daffy.
Fundraising
Honoring a Loved One: How a Daffy Member Raised $20,000 for Alzheimer's Organizations
Learn how Dan Hoffman used Daffy Campaigns to raise $20,000 for Alzheimer's organizations in honor of his late wife.
What's New on Daffy
100 Quintillion More Ways to Grow Your Giving
Introducing Custom Portfolios, an innovative feature that allows Daffy members to tailor their portfolio’s investment strategy to match their giving preferences and timeline.
What's New on Daffy
We’re Adding Ethereum ETFs to Our Investment Options
We’re proud to be the first major donor-advised fund to integrate the new Ethereum ETFs into our investment options.
What's New on Daffy, Fundraising
What’s New for Daffy Campaigns: Videos, Website Widgets, and Built-in Social Sharing
Discover how to add videos, embed website widgets, and share more easily on social media to inspire more donations to your Daffy Campaign.
What's New on Daffy
Introducing Daffy 2.0
Based on feedback and data from thousands of members, we've developed an entirely redesigned dashboard, serving as the hub for all your giving.
Fundraising
5 Ways Your Non-Profit Can Leverage Daffy Campaigns
Discover 5 innovative fundraising strategies your non-profit can use with Daffy Campaigns.
Workplace Giving
3 Ways to Launch & Maintain A Successful Workplace Giving Program from Acorns
Learn how Acorns rolled out Daffy for Work to its employees to drive adoption and engagement.
Fundraising
How to Create a Memorial Charity Fundraiser to Honor A Loved One
We've created a guide to help you honor loved ones who've passed away through a meaningful charity fundraiser.
What's New on Daffy
A Deeper Look at Our New Bitcoin ETF Portfolios
We answer common questions about our newly announced Crypto Diversifed portfolios.
What's New on Daffy
Interested in the New Bitcoin ETFs? We’ve Added the New Bitwise Bitcoin ETF to Daffy
We're thrilled to offer a new crypto portfolio with the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF.
Fundraising, Giving
6 Ways to Share Your Daffy Campaign (with Fundraising Templates!)
Explore ways to share your Daffy Campaign with your friends and family online and in-person.
Giving
Most Popular Charities to Donate to on Daffy
Drumroll, please! We’ve unveiled the Top 20 Charities on Daffy, a testament to the heartwarming generosity of our members, and remember, any 501(c)(3) in the U.S. can be the star of your next donation on Daffy.
DAFs Explained
The Rise of Donor-Advised Funds in Charitable Giving
Brad Saft, CEO & founder of DonorAdvisedFunds.com, and Adam Nash, CEO & co-founder of Daffy, discuss the future of donor-advised funds.
What's New on Daffy, Tax Strategies
Got Mutual Funds? Here’s How to Boost Your Giving & Save on Taxes
We now accept mutual fund contributions on Daffy, so that you have more ways to maximize your giving.
Giving
The Power of Setting a Giving Goal: Stories from Our Community
Discover the impact of setting an annual giving goal from Daffy's Community Manager through inspiring stories of generosity from members in 2023.
What's New on Daffy, Giving, Company News
Daffy Adds Over $100M in Charitable Contributions in 2023, 425% Growth from 2022
2023 was a record-setting year of charitable activity for Daffy. Read more about the generosity of our members and insights on giving in our 2023 Year in Review.
Giving, DAFs Explained
Compare: Daffy vs. Schwab Charitable
Find out which donor-advised fund provider lets you make the biggest impact with lower fees and easier giving opportunities.
Tax Strategies
If You Give to Charity, ‘Bunching’ Could Save You Thousands
By using a donor-advised fund and a simple tax strategy called “bunching,” taxpayers who don’t normally qualify for itemized deductions can access the charitable deduction.
What's New on Daffy
Better Yields on Daffy Conservative Portfolios
We've upgraded our Conservative portfolio options with improved options and higher yields.
Tax Strategies
Why You Should Always Donate Stock Instead Of Cash
Long-term investors who donate stock instead of cash can save on capital gains taxes while maximizing the benefits of giving back.
What's New on Daffy, Giving, Fundraising
Feeding Families this Holiday Season with Daffy Campaigns
Join us in fighting food insecurity this holiday season. Discover a food bank in your area, and if you donate today, your donation will be matched.
Giving, What's New on Daffy, Fundraising
Activate, Organize, and Inspire: Introducing Daffy Campaigns
Now, every Daffy member can fundraise for charities and causes they care about, and get others involved.
DAFs Explained
How Daffy Compares to Traditional DAF Providers
Most donor-advised funds have high minimums, high fees, and dated technology. Understand how Daffy compares to traditional donor-advised funds.
What's New on Daffy
Celebrate Daffy’s Birthday with the Gift of Giving 🎁
To celebrate our birthday, we're doing a little something extra to help nudge everyone to be a little more generous this year.
DAFs Explained
Daffy vs. Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
Find out which donor-advised fund helps you make the biggest impact on the causes you care about.
Tax Strategies
How to Claim Charitable Contributions on Your Tax Return
Find out which IRS forms you need in order to itemize your charitable contributions on your taxes every year.
Giving
How to Donate to Charity Without Getting on the Mailing List
Find out how to get off mailing lists for past donations, plus an easy way to avoid getting more unsolicited mail in the future.
Giving
Q&A: Daffy Investor Sarah Kunst on Charitable Giving & Inspiring Change
Delve into Sarah Kunst's journey from venture capital to philanthropy with Daffy, and how together she hopes we can redefine giving.
What's New on Daffy, Workplace Giving
A Complete Guide to Bringing Daffy for Work to Your Company
With Daffy for Work, you can launch your corporate giving program in minutes. Follow this guide to customize your workplace giving program and get started today.
Press Release, What's New on Daffy, Workplace Giving
Daffy.org Modernizes Workplace Giving with the Launch of Daffy for Work
With companies like Acorns, Lev, OpenAI, and Titan onboard, Daffy.org is courting the next generation of companies and donors with a simple and impactful employee-centric workplace-giving solution.
What's New on Daffy, Workplace Giving
Email Template to Share Daffy for Work With Your Company
Use this email template to introduce Daffy for Work to your HR team and foster a culture of giving and philanthropy within your own workplace.
What's New on Daffy, Workplace Giving
Workplace Giving is a Problem Worth Solving
Daffy for Work offers employers a simpler, more powerful way to encourage their employees to give.
What's New on Daffy
6 Examples of What You Can Build with Daffy APIs
In 24 hours, Daffy engineers developed six examples to demonstrate the potential of Daffy APIs, so you can start bringing your own ideas to life.
Giving
14 LGBTQ+ Nonprofits to Donate to During Pride Month & All Year Round
Celebrate PRIDE Month by supporting nonprofits who are making a difference in the LGBTQ+ community every day of the year.
Press Release
Daffy.org Launches Daffy for Developers - Open APIs to Help Fintechs Integrate Giving Into Their Apps
Daffy APIs aim to make charitable giving part of every financial application
What's New on Daffy
Introducing Daffy for Developers
With Daffy APIs, you can easily bring giving to your applications and services.
Tax Strategies
Nervous About Crypto Taxes? Donate Your Profitable Holdings Instead
Donating appreciated crypto to charity can result in tax savings for you and more money for charities.
Giving
9 Organizations to Support on Veterans Day
Honor veterans and their families this Veterans Day by supporting one of these organizations that provide comprehensive support services.
Giving
Donating to Schools on Daffy: A Complete Guide
Learn more about how you can make donations to your favorite schools on Daffy.
Tax Strategies
Want to Save on Taxes? There’s a Better Way to Rebalance Your Portfolio
Long-term investors who engage in charitable giving can save on capital gains taxes by donating shares when they need to rebalance their portfolio.
Tax Strategies
Donating Regularly to Charity But Not Itemizing? A Tax-Smart Giving Strategy You Should Know
This tax-smart strategy helps you deduct your charitable contributions even with a higher standard deduction.
What's New on Daffy, Tax Strategies
You Can Now Add Your Financial Advisor to Your Donor-Advised Fund on Daffy
Daffy members can now add their financial advisors to their Daffy fund, making it easier for advisors to help you strategically manage your fund as well as tactically take actions on your behalf.
Giving
One Story of Becoming of More Generous Person
How Maria Viggiano became not just Daffy’s Head of Customer Success, but a more generous person.
Tax Strategies
4 Tax Mistakes to Avoid When Making Charitable Donations
Instead of leaving money on the table at tax time, learn how to skip these common tax mistakes and lower your tax bill.
Giving
Employer Donation Matching: A Guide to Getting Your Donation Matched
Everything you need to know to get your donations matched by your employer for more impact.
Giving
How One Man Gave $10,000 to His Community in Columbus Ohio
When our #BeMoreGenerous winner received his $10,000 prize, he knew exactly what to do with it: give back to his community in Columbus, Ohio.
What's New on Daffy
Daffy and Secfi Partner to Make Charitable Giving Easier for Startup Employees
Secfi has chosen Daffy to be its preferred donor-advised fund provider for their advisory clients.
Giving
10 Reasons to Donate with Daffy
Members share the best parts about using Daffy for all their charitable giving.
Tax Strategies
Charitable Tax Deductions: 4 Things You Need to Know
Find out how to write off up to 60% of your AGI, take advantage of the increased standard deduction for 2023, and uncover commonly overlooked tax breaks.
DAFs Explained, Giving
5 Ways Donor-Advised Funds Can Help Your Nonprofit Fundraise
Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are one of the hottest trends in charitable giving right now. Every charity should understand the key benefits.
Giving
Why You Should Donate Like MacKenzie Scott & Consider Unrestricted Donations
Find out how to mirror MacKenzie Scott’s charitable giving strategy with unrestricted donations, local donations, and more.
Giving
4 Ways to Decide How Much You Should Give to Charity
Determine the right amount to donate to charity based on your financial situation, personal values, or tax deductions.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
Daffy & Chariot Partner to Make Donations from DAFs to Charities Even Easier
Members can now give from their fund directly on participating nonprofits’ websites.
Giving
5 Worthy Organizations Making a Difference on Earth Day & Beyond
In honor of Earth Day this year, we’re highlighting 5 of the most impactful environmental non-profits based on Vox’s reporting.
Giving
Giving Back More Regularly in 2024: 4 Steps to Setting & Achieving a Giving Goal
If you're looking to give back more regularly in 2023, here’s our guide for doing it.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
Introducing Daffy Gifts — Give the Gift of Giving this Holiday Season
With our new Daffy Gifts feature, you can send a digital charity gift card directly from your Daffy fund with a personal message.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
Giving is Better Together
Today, on Giving Tuesday, we are starting to roll out our first features to better discover charities through friends and colleagues, support causes and organizations together, and inspire one another with our philanthropic passions.
Press Release
Daffy Transforms the Donor-Advised Fund into the LinkedIn for Giving
We learned quickly from early Daffy members that giving is fundamentally better with other people, and what we actually were building was the "LinkedIn for Charity."
What's New on Daffy, Giving
#BeMoreGenerous This Holiday Season with Daffy
From November 1st — 29th, donate to your favorite charity on Daffy and you’ll be entered into a daily sweepstakes to increase your donation by a mystery amount.
Company News
Introducing Our Chief Financial Officer Ed Park
Get to know our newest team member, our new CFO Ed Park. He's a finance wiz, a builder of teams and products, and a passionate donor and volunteer.
Giving
How to Support Indigenous-Led Organizations
Support Indigenous-led organizations by donating to one of these 8 non-profits.
Giving, What's New on Daffy
Guide: How to Introduce Daffy for Families to Your Kids
With Daffy for Families, we now make it easier than ever for members to include their children and grandchildren in their charitable giving. Here's our guide for getting them started.
How to Raise Money Smart Kids At Any Age
Empower your kids to learn about money and personal finance at every stage of life with these tips from Bobbi Rebell and Daffy.org CEO Adam Nash.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
Introducing Daffy for Families – Giving Starts at Home
With Daffy for Families, members can add their parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and anyone else they consider family to their fund to inspire their whole family to give back and be more generous.
Tax Strategies
How Donating Stock to Charity is a Win-Win For You & Charities
Giving stock instead of cash as a charitable donation can greatly benefit you as well as the non-profit.
Giving
How a Weekly Dominoes Tradition Turned Into a Community of Change-Makers
Daffy member Jose Morel is using Daffy to support local youth and natural disaster relief efforts in his hometown through a Dominoes Club that started off as a gathering of friends.
What's New on Daffy, Giving
Flying Chai
Just in time for the Jewish High Holy Days, we are proud to announce that we’ve brought a little more Chai into our service.
Giving
8 Ways to Support Suicide Prevention
Helping non-profits with suicide prevention can help lower this leading cause of death and remove mental health stigmas. Donate to some of the most impactful non-profits providing suicide prevention services and advocacy work.
DAFs Explained
What is a Donor-Advised Fund?
Donor-advised funds are great whether you already give regularly to charity or not, but with Daffy, you get all the benefits of a donor-advised fund and more.
What's New on Daffy
From Cash to Crypto, Daffy Has the Right Portfolio for You
Whether you are looking for a conservative portfolio of cash or bonds, a standard portfolio of low-cost index funds, ESG portfolios that reflect your values, or modern crypto portfolios, you can find the right investment options for your contributions at Daffy.
Tax Strategies
How to Maximize Your Tax Savings by Bunching Charitable Donations
Not sure if you should itemize this year? Check out this charitable deduction strategy to help.
Giving, Tax Strategies
Donor-Advised Funds vs. Private Foundations: What’s Best For You
While both options offer the potential for tax savings, there are several major differences between the two. You’ll maximize your impact and save yourself tons of time.
What's New on Daffy
What's New on Daffy - July 2022
We’ve released new features to improve your giving and tax time experience, including the ability to set a specific use for your donation, download a CSV file of your tax-deductible contributions, and share your donations on social media to spread support.
Giving
Reasons Why Alumni Donate to Their Alma Mater
Should you donate to your alma mater? Hear why 3 Daffy members do.
Giving
Top Charities to Donate to in 2022 According to GiveWell
Looking for your donation to save or improve the most lives per dollar? GiveWell is a research organization that focuses on just that.
Giving
6 Charities Breaking Mental Health Stigmas
Nearly one in five adults in the United States live with a mental illness. Yet, despite how common it is, there is still a stigma surrounding mental illness, leaving millions of people afraid to seek treatment. But we have the power to do something about mental health. Whether you want to help break the stigma, or donate to a specific mental illness issue, here