After Hits and Misses, Waltons Shift Strategy on Their Home Turf
The Bentonville, Ark., area boomed after the family helped remake the town, but a $52 million effort in some of the poorest regions of the Ozarks was less successful.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Walton Fund Uses Market Incentives to Encourage Better Farming Practices
The family foundation plans to spend $455 million to maintain adequate levels of clean water in the Mississippi and Colorado river basins, prevent overfishing in the oceans, and restore damage done to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
The Scramble to Hire Big-Gift Fundraisers
With more baby boomers retiring, there’s a greater push to go for large donations — and to hire people who are good at getting them.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
The Next Best Thing to Being There
The cutting-edge technology is an expensive, thrilling new tool a few charities are using to raise support.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How 4 Nonprofits Use Virtual Reality to Help Their Cause
Charities get creative with a technology that can have an immediate and powerful impact on donors, but they also discover pitfalls.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Caring for a Brutal War’s Youngest Victims
Five years into Syria’s grinding civil conflict, Save the Children is working to support schools and clinics, provide humanitarian relief, reunite families, and give kids a safe place to play.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Better Ratings Help Small Charities but Not Big Ones
Larger charities struggling to cut administrative costs to get a coveted third or fourth star from Charity Navigator may be wasting their time, a four-year study suggests.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
The Second Act for a Former Hollywood ‘Glamour Girl’: Tulsa Philanthropist
Instead of supporting remote charities, Peggy Helmerich decided she and her husband should create a “little gem of culture” in Oklahoma.
By Brennen Jensen
Contributor
Minn. Orchestra Regains Financial and Artistic Stride
The New York Times reports on the Minnesota Orchestra’s recovery from the devastating labor strife that the organization’s president called a “near-death experience.”
Philadelphia Museum Gets $10 Million and Modern-Art Trove
A Pennsylvania art collector who died last year has left 50 modernist works, including a significant late-period Edward Hopper painting, and $10 million in endowment funds to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.