Pursuing Innovation in the Nonprofit World
A new Chronicle blog starts a conversation about fostering new ideas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Recovering Names of Slaves in Virginia
The Virginia Historical Society has created an online database, Unknown No Longer, of the names of more than 1,800 slaves from its manuscript collection, a number the Richmond organization thinks will grow to the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands over time. The group’s more than eight million…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Grant Maker Helps Incubate Innovation in the Arts
The Doris Duke Foundation is helping cultural groups figure how to deal with changing demographics and competition from technology.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Washington Group Gives Budding Innovators Support to Develop Their Ideas
A Washington group gives money and other help to people with innovative solutions for helping people out of poverty.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Innovators Battle Obstacles to Creative Solutions
Even in an uncertain economy, some nonprofits are pursuing innovative practices, such as Project Exploration, which offers science programs to inner-city students in Chicago.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Grant Maker Focuses on Helping to Build Nonprofits’ Operations
The philanthropy created by eBay’s co-founder helps nonprofits find top workers, devise business plans, and improve their boards.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Omidyar Network Takes Customer-Service Approach to Aiding Grantees
Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropy is now known for helping nonprofits improve their organizations, a far cry from its previous reputation for arrogance.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Medication Reminders Via Facebook
A group is using Facebook to notify patients of their medication schedule.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Head of Charities Aid Foundation America Leaves to Guide a Celebrity’s Philanthropy
Susan Saxon-Harrold is becoming a philanthropy adviser after stepping down as leader of the Charities Aid Foundation, a group that helps American donors and companies give outside the United States.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Rockefeller Official to Head Nonprofit Finance Fund
Antony Bugg-Levine, a prominent advocate of ‘impact investing’ by foundations, will take the helm.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor