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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.
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How One Man Gave $10,000 to His Community in Akron Ohio
When our #BeMoreGenerous winner received his $10,000 prize, he knew exactly what to do with it: give back to his community in Akron, Ohio.
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.
DAFs Explained
How Daffy Compares to Traditional DAF Providers
At Daffy, our mission is to help people be more generous, more often. This is why we've built a not-for-profit community around a modern platform for charitable giving featuring a brand-new donor-advised fund (DAF). Whether you already have a donor-advised fund, or you are thinking about opening one for the first time, we want to help you to choose the right one. To help with your decision, we've pulled together data about several existing providers (Daffy Charitable, Fidelity Charitable, Schwa
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 2023: 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.
Tax Strategies
Your Charitable Deductions Tax Guide (2023 Updated)
Maximize your tax savings and charitable impact in 2023 by understanding the latest IRS charitable contribution limits, donation rules, tax strategies, and more.
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."
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.
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. [https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness#:~:text=Mental%20illnesses%20are%20common%20in,(52.9%20million%20in%202020] 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
Quotes that Will Inspire You to Give Back
Get inspired to make a difference of your own with a few famous quotes about giving.
Giving
Don’t Forget To Get Your Employer to Match Your Donations
Everything you need to know to get your donations matched by your employer for more impact.
Giving
Why Does It Feel Good to Donate?
Research suggests that people who give money to charity tend to be happier and also healthier than others. Learn why.
Tax Strategies
6 Smart Ideas for What to Do with Your 2022 Tax Refund
Further your financial goals by putting your tax refund to work.
What's New on Daffy
Family Accounts Are Now Live!
At Daffy, our mission is to help people be more generous, more often. And while giving is often very personal, we also know that couples often want to share and discuss the organizations they support with each other. We’re proud to share that, as of today, Family accounts are now available on Daffy. With Family Accounts, we’ve tried to give households the best of both worlds: the power of a personal profile combined with a shared family fund. With a Family account, both partners can contribute
Giving
Honor Your Pet By Giving Back
It’s no surprise that we love our pets. We take them on our trips, we give them designer pet wear, and Starbucks even offers special puppucinco [https://coffeeatthree.com/puppuccino/]’s. But while our pets are given love, attention, and care every day, over 6.3 million animals enter shelters each year [https://www.aspca.org/helping-people-pets/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics] to receive veterinary care and shelter until they find their forever home. So as a team of animal lovers o
Tax Strategies
5 Tips to Lower Your Tax Bill
An unexpected tax bill is a nightmare that happens all too often. 😱 If you had to pay a significant tax bill after you filed your tax return this year, you’re not alone, and here are five ways to avoid this for your 2022 tax bill. #1: Analyze Your 2021 Tax Return & Adjust Your W-4 In many cases, saving a little bit of money out of each paycheck is a great way to reach a financial goal. As it turns out, taxes work the same way. Your withholdings offer the key to avoiding a nasty surprise on A
DAFs Explained
Compare: Daffy vs. Vanguard Charitable
The number of individuals who use donor-advised funds (DAFs) to power their charitable giving has skyrocketed over the last decade. Today, there are more than 1 million DAFs in the U.S., and they are also on the rise globally. [https://www.nptrust.org/reports/daf-report/] The reason why is simple: These accounts offer a slew of benefits for donors and charities alike. You’re able to take a tax deduction on your contribution immediately after funding your DAF, then you can make decisions on wher
Company News
Say hello to Lorie Lambert, our new Head of Donor-Advised Fund 👋
At Daffy, [https://daffy.org/] we’re on a mission to help people be more generous, more often, and to fulfill that mission, we’re building a brand-new, modern donor-advised fund, designed from the ground up for this purpose. In addition to building and releasing new product features to help you give, we’re building a talented team at Daffy. We’ve recently welcomed Lorie Lambert as our Head of Donor-Advised Fund of Aside, Inc., the cloud-based technology platform which supports Daffy. Lorie join
DAFs Explained, Tax Strategies
What Elon Musk Can Teach Us About Donor-Advised Fund Fees
Most people have never even heard of a donor-advised fund, [https://daffy.org/resources/why-have-i-never-heard-of-a-donor-advised-fund] often called a “DAF”. But a few weeks ago, millions of people found out about them when Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/elon-musk-donated-5-7-billion-of-tesla-shares-to-charity] reported that Elon Musk has donated $5.7B in Tesla stock ($TSLA) to charity, most likely to a donor-advised fund. Unfortunately, there is a fundamental p
Giving
3 Ways to Vet a Charity Before Making A Donation
When a crisis takes place or a community is in need, we all want to do something to help, and donating (even a small amount) can go a long way. Maybe you want to provide assistance after a natural disaster or humanitarian effort. You might also have an interest in a specific social cause you want to support on a regular basis. Giving is an emotional experience, but you’ll make the most impact by using your head as well as your heart. Before you start randomly googling organizations to support,
What's New on Daffy
What’s New on Daffy — March 2022
At Daffy, we’re building a brand-new platform for giving, built from the ground up for this purpose. We know there are so many innovative ways we can help people be more generous, more often, and are building in public, so we can constantly improve and update Daffy based on our members’ feedback, so keep sharing your thoughts & ideas [https://www.daffy.org/contact] 🙏. We’re proud to share what’s new on Daffy as of March 17, 2022 (v1.10 in the app store [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daffy-cha
DAFs Explained
Compare: Daffy vs. Fidelity Charitable
Over the past 10 years, donor-advised funds have exploded in popularity. According to The National Public Trust [https://www.nptrust.org/reports/daf-report/], there are now more than one million donor-advised funds in the U.S. alone and saw a 16.3% increase from 2019 to 2020. Their growing popularity is for good reason. A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a smart way to be more intentional about your giving and maximize the tax advantages. A DAF is a designated giving account [https://daffy.org/resour
Giving
Four Reasons We Give to Charity
The average donor was more generous in 2021 than ever, according to a new report [https://institute.blackbaud.com/charitable-giving-report/overall-giving-trends/] from Blackbaud. Not only is overall giving and online giving growing, but employees are paying more attention to how they, and their workplace, can make the world a better place [https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/employee-activism-on-the-rise.aspx] . All over the world, it seems there is a collective movement that is e
What's New on Daffy
A Better System for Giving 🙏
Daffy launched a few months ago with a relatively simple mission: help people be more generous, more often. And to fulfill that mission, we launched the first fully functional donor-advised fund [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daffy-charitable/id1578035540] available in the App Store. [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daffy-charitable/id1578035540#?platform=iphone] Daffy, however, did not set out to just build a modern donor-advised fund. Our product goal is to build a better system for giving. T
What's New on Daffy, Tax Strategies
Introducing the Tax Summary Report
Earlier this week, we rolled out the ability for our members to view and download a simple summary of all of their contributions that may qualify as tax-deductible for 2021. Everyone has a system for finding their charitable donation receipts. Whether it’s a special folder on your desk, a special tag in Gmail, or just the hail mary search of your inbox. Since tax season often means tracking down a lot of receipts and documents, we wanted to help save our members the time and hassle. If you’re
Tax Strategies
Got a Big Bonus? How to Pay Less Taxes & Give Back
Bonus season is upon us, and while you might initially cheer at the thought of extra cash in your bank account, it’s important to realize the tax implications before you start spending. Getting taxed at the supplemental income rate could leave you with a lot less cash than you expected. Using charitable giving as part of your tax strategy can minimize your tax bill while also making a difference in the world. A donor-advised fund can lower your taxable income while helping charities you care a
What's New on Daffy
What’s New on Daffy — February 2022
At Daffy [https://daffy.org/], our goal is to constantly update and improve our service. In the donor-advised fund industry, feature updates are rare. New versions of our web application are published multiple times a day, and our iPhone app [https://daffy.org/download] is updated every two weeks. We’re excited to share what’s new for Daffy as of February 9, 2022 (v1.8 in the app store). We’ve added new ways for you to be more intentional about your giving, more ways to fund your Daffy account
Company News, Giving
Let’s Close the Trillion-Dollar Generosity Gap
When it comes to charitable giving, Americans have a reason to be proud. In 2020, we gave over $471 billion dollars to charity, with over $334 billion coming from individuals. [https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/news-events/news-item/giving-usa-2021:-in-a-year-of-unprecedented-events-and-challenges,-charitable-giving-reached-a-record-$471.44-billion-in-2020.html?id=361] It’s a breathtaking level of generosity by any measure. But it’s not enough, and more importantly, we know it’s not enough. The
Giving
2022 is the Year to Make Giving a Habit
2022 is finally here, and with the new year comes a new chance to make a change. Whatever you may call them, our resolutions often symbolize the things we care about most and reflect the areas of our lives that we want to improve. Whether it be spending more time with family, rediscovering an old hobby, or simply trying something new, resolutions often mark what matters most to us. While many resolutions focus on self-improvement, this year more and more people are looking for ways to give bac
What's New on Daffy
100+ More Ways to Be More Generous with Crypto
2021 has been a big year for crypto, and at Daffy, we thought what better way to ring in the New Year than to help our members be more generous with crypto this holiday season. We were very proud to launch Daffy just a couple of months ago as the first donor-advised fund in the App Store with the ability to both contribute and invest in crypto. However, our initial release only allowed you to donate Bitcoin and Ethereum. We heard you. You want more. As of today, on daffy.org [https://daffy.org
What's New on Daffy
Say Hello to :Daffy for Web
At Daffy, we have a very simple mission to help people be more generous, more often. Just over two months ago, we launched Daffy by shipping the first fully-functional Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) app in the App Store [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daffy-charitable/id1578035540]. Our focus was simple: make it as easy as possible for people to give. However, our members deserve more. We know that having access to Daffy across devices is key to making a giving habit—and raising more money for the cau
Tax Strategies
The Benefits of Donating Stock to Charity
2021 has been an amazing year for the stock market. As of December 8, Vanguard's Total Stock Market Index (Ticker: VTI) is up over 25.1% for the year. Six companies (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Tesla) are now worth over $1 trillion dollars in market capitalization. Newly public companies, like Roblox and Coinbase, trade at valuations of well over $60 billion. These are eye-popping returns by almost any historical measure. 👀 These stock market returns have benefited employe
Tax Strategies
HODL or DON8? The Benefits of Donating Crypto
2021 has seen an incredible rise in prices for crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin rang in the New Year at a price of $28,994 and now trades around $61,475, for an eye-popping return of 112%. Ethereum opened the year at $737, and now trades at $4,370, for an even larger return of 493%. By any measure, these gains are incredible. While millions of people have benefited from the stupendous rise in crypto value, millions more have not. As 2021 winds to a close, many people are looking
Tax Strategies, DAFs Explained
Why Have I Never Heard of a Donor-Advised Fund?
Most likely because the existing DAF products weren't designed for you.
What's New on Daffy
Thank You & Update on the Daffy Waitlist
We are so grateful for all the support and positive feedback on the launch of Daffy. [https://daffy.org/] It has been wonderful to see how much our mission of helping people be more generous, more often resonates far and wide. We are thrilled to have you as the first members of the Daffy community. About The Daffy Waitlist While we are excited to have all the support, it is of the utmost importance to us that we scale this service carefully. As a result, we will be letting more people in dai
What's New on Daffy, Company News
Getting Started with Daffy
As we set out on our mission to help people be more generous, more often, we spent a lot of time talking to people about how they think about giving. Based on those conversations, we focused our first release of the product on four particular needs. Make Giving A Habit Most people believe that it is important to set aside money for those less fortunate than themselves. Unfortunately, while the intention is there, we discovered that most people do not meet their own goals for giving, and they fe
What's New on Daffy, Company News
Introducing Daffy
My children go to a school with a wonderful tradition. Every Friday, the kids each bring in some spare change: nickels, dimes, quarters - whatever they can find. They each take turns putting it in a small bank at the front of the classroom. Then, once every quarter, the class votes on what charity to give that money to. It's really a wonderful way to teach them about giving. When we teach our children about money, we often give them very simple advice: > Don't spend all of your money. Put asi
