Why NAVi for Hunger and Homelessness? Why Now?
In 2020, as the philanthropic world grappled with the incredible need generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Vanguard Charitable donor’s greatest priority was supporting trustworthy organizations working on the front lines of local communities. We convened partners from across the nonprofit sector and the Nonprofit Aid Visualizer™ (NAVi) was born. NAVi is a groundbreaking new tool that puts unprecedented data at donors’ fingertips via an interactive platform, making it easy to pinpoint charities solving the problems they care about most.
As the pandemic stretched into 2021, compounding other societal challenges, donors were focused most on hunger and homelessness in the United States, two interwoven problems that have been greatly exacerbated by the ripple effects of COVID-19.