Big Gifts, Small Charities: Fundraising Success Secrets
To raise larger donations, small charities need to pay more attention to quality, not quantity, when cultivating donors, according to a new study.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Maria Vertkin: Careers Found in Translation
An immigrant launches a nonprofit that trains low-income, bilingual women to become medical interpreters, helping patients who don’t speak English communicate with doctors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Veronika Scott: How a Coat Becomes a Bed
An art-school project blossoms into a design shop geared toward serving the homeless by producing a winter coat that turns into a sleeping bag.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Alejandro Gac-Artigas: Reversing Children’s Summer Slump
Sringboard Collaborative’s five-week summer reading programs for kids are showing impressive results in Philadelphia and Oakland by including sessions with parents.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Michael Brennan: Tech Expert Takes on Social Ills
The program officer at the Ford Foundation puts his Ph.D. in computer science to work as he explores the impact of technology on society.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Donnel Baird: Clean Energy in Old Buildings
Where banks look the other way, his BlocPower effort gets creative to attract environmentally minded investors to help nonprofits cut their energy budgets.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ommeed Sathe: Facelift for a Midsize City
Prudential Financial is working revitalize Newark’s downtown, among other areas, and it has found someone committed to figuring out what works best for each community.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Cristina Jimenez, Giving Dreamers a Voice
An undocumented youth from Ecuador turned a moment of deep personal shame into a burning desire change the course of immigration policy and discourse in the United States.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Vu Le: Speaking Truth to Power — Humorously
A blogger uses startling honesty and whip-smart humor to say things many nonprofit workers wish they could say.
Jason Cone: Reluctant Frontman
When a military airstrike hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, a former journalist who worked for the group stepped in front of the TV cameras and turned up the heat on the U.S. government.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects