Surprise! More People Give If They Don’t See the Pitch Coming
Avoid giving people “time to find reasons why they might not want to give,” says one of the researchers.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Foundations Break Their Grant Guidelines and Speed Cash to Immigrant Needs
Trump administration policies have prompted some grant makers to pump up their giving and stray outside their usual funding areas for an emergency response.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Special Breed of Grant Makers Hunts for New Ways to Solve Bedeviling Problems
Strategists from more than a dozen foundations are at the forefront of a movement to identify off-the-radar needs where philanthropy could make a big difference.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Donor-Advised-Fund Giving Favors Education but Not Religion, Study Shows
The study by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy may be another ominous sign in a pattern of shrinking giving to faith groups.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Assets Outpace Ford Foundation
For the first time in recent memory, a community foundation is now in the top ranks of grant makers. Only the philanthropies of George Soros and Bill and Melina Gates have bigger endowments.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Donors made at least 15 contributions of $1 million or more last year — no strings attached.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Nonprofits Brace for Budget Fight
Acknowledging their lobbying efforts in 2017 fell flat, charity leaders lay out their road map for how to do better in the looming struggle over spending cuts.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How New Forms of Philanthropy Are Squeezing Traditional Charities
Donors and foundations look to alternative legal structures and for-profit investments to effect change, with big implications for grant-supported nonprofits.
By Alex Daniels and Rebecca Koenig
Cash in Donor-Advised Funds Takes Years to Trickle Out
The report also raises concerns about whether the funds are sometimes used as a tool for tax avoidance with no net benefit to the public good.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Tax Legislation Advances as Nonprofits Send Message About Harm to Giving
Charity leaders see little to cheer about in a House bill that would gut several major incentives for charitable giving.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations