Crowdfunding Donors Show Feelings of Betrayal When Gifts Are Redirected (Study)
When donors direct exactly how their money will be used, giving can be especially joyful. However, the feeling of betrayal can cut deeply when charities don’t use the money as they said they would.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Leader Helps Mobilize Asian Americans for Big Impact in Elections
EunSook Lee, executive director of the Asian American Pacific Islander Civic Engagement Fund, has accelerated grant making to groups to be ready ahead of the primaries and the conventions.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Grant Makers Push for More Trust in Relationships With Nonprofits
Less paperwork. Simplified ways of measuring impact. More general operating support. It’s all part of the Trust Based Philanthropy Project’s plan for changing the relationship between foundations and grantees.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Nancy Lindborg Will Lead $7.7 Billion Packard Foundation
Lindborg currently is president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan federal organization dedicated to preventing and resolving armed conflict globally.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Ascend Fund Aims to Elect More Women, With a Boost From Melinda Gates
The collaborative dedicated to helping women get elected to public office, called the Ascend Fund, announced it first grants to two organizations that recruit and train candidates.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Data-Driven Program Evaluation Hurts Equity Efforts, Say Critics
Foundations should rethink the way they measure success if they want to achieve progress, say advocates for change.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Grant makers face an uphill battle to get companies to care about more than financial returns.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Grant Makers Face Uphill Battle as They Push for a Kinder Form of Capitalism
The Ford Foundations and others have made headway in their efforts to get companies to care about more than shareholder returns, but doing so requires reversing decades of policies and popular economic theories.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Trust in Grantees, Not Command and Control
John Esterle and Pia Infante champion an approach to grant making that give grantees more power in decision making. A growing number of foundations are taking notice.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Community Foundations Plan Responses to Mass Shootings
“You know, random acts of violence never crossed my mind,” says one leader, but the times have changed. Community foundations are exploring ways to raise money and get it where it needs to go, fast.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations