GuideStar’s Data Paint Clear Picture: Many Charities Face Big Challenges
To the Editor: In a letter to the editor (“The Nonprofit World’s Finances Are Not as Bleak as a New Study Suggests,” September 23), Lester Salamon commented on GuideStar’s 2010 Economic Survey, taking us to task for what he felt was an overly grim picture of the effects of the economic downturn on…
American Cities Are Ripe for Renewal, if Philanthropy Has the Will
Grant makers need to find different ways of getting government, business, and nonprofits working together to revive urban areas, writes the head of the Living Cities coalition.
By BEN HECHT
Contributor
Innovation Fund Offers Opportunity
To the Editor: Now that the Corporation for National and Community Service has released a series of documents detailing the methodology its Social Innovation Fund employed in determining which organizations would be awarded grants, it is time to move forward and focus on the important opportunity…
Diversity Rules for Foundations Stir Debate
At a national conference of donors and grant makers, foundation independence and state regulations were a hot topic of discussion.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Opinion: A New Era for ‘Impact Investing’
A San Francisco social-entrepreneurship conference and new funds that encourage so-called impact investing show “genuine progress” in efforts to marry profit and social missions, The Bay Citizen’s editor says in an opinion column.
Telecommunications Companies’ Gifts to Minority Groups Questioned
Public-interest groups are raising questions about major telecommunications companies’ donations to minority organizations that have run advocacy efforts in behalf of their corporate benefactors, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Nonprofits Have a Stake in the Latest Debates About Keeping the Internet Open
As the federal government considers changes in access to the Internet, nonprofits need to make sure that they don’t lose this cheap, effective way to get their messages out, writes a Chronicle columnist.
By Vincent Stehle
Contributor
Opinion: Probing Questions All Donors Should Ask Before Making a Significant Gift
Donors should ask what steps a nonprofit is taking to ensure that it is producing results, writes Sean Stannard-Stockton, a Chronicle columnist.
By SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Contributor
What’s the Problem With Strategic Philanthropy?
It’s time for donors and grant recipients to have candid conversations about what works, and what does not, in strategic philanthropy, writes the former president of the Ford Foundation.
By SUSAN BERRESFORD
Contributor
The Gates-Buffett Visit to China: What It Means for Philanthropy
The Chinese government’s challenge is how to stimulate giving by the rich without sacrificing incentives to be entrepreneurial, writes a Chinese graduate student who is studying philanthropy at Indiana University.