Coaching Board Members for Advocacy Pays Big Dividends
Trustees’ connections and community clout can be invaluable for the nonprofits they serve, but these assets are often underused. Experts share their secrets on how to motivate board members to make your case to legislators and policy makers.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Celebrity Philanthropists: Which Ones Go the Extra Mile
Alec Baldwin, Taylor Swift, Michael Jordan, and others have all given big sums to causes they care about.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Facebook’s First Full-Time Hire Gives $75 Million to Alma Mater
Also, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty, give $50 million for children’s cardiac care, and the family of Amazon head Jeff Bezos donates $35 million for cancer research.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: $2.5 Million Award Helps NYC Theater Build New Home
Also, three nonprofit newsrooms get $3 million each from the Democracy Fund and First Look Media to pursue reporting projects.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Brookings Institution Gets $20 Million for Fellowships
Other notable gifts include $20 million to UCLA to boost diversity in engineering and computer science and $15 million to Iona College to create a center for entrepreneurship and innovation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Turn Your Nonprofit’s Trustees Into Master Advocates
Board members make some of the best advocates for a charity’s mission. Here’s how to make them comfortable in that role.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital Gets $50 Million for Expansion
Other notable awards include $50 million from Google.org to support tech-based education programs and $3 million from the Walmart Foundation for anti-hunger programs in Texas.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Muslim Family Gives $15 Million for Study of World Religions
Rafat and Zoreen Ansari hope their new institute at the University of Notre Dame will build partnerships among people of different faiths to work on social ills like violence and poverty.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Also, $50 million from Paul Allen and Microsoft endows the University of Washington’s computer-science school, and a $25 million donation expands the Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville branch.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Philanthropy to the Developing World Outpaces Government Aid
U.S. private philanthropy to developing countries totaled $43.9 billion in 2014, far outstripping the $33.1 billion the U.S. government spent, according to the Center for Global Prosperity at the Hudson Institute.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor