Mothers Help Each Other Prevent HIV in Newborns
Mothers2mothers employs HIV-positive women as mentors to coach others on how to give birth to healthy babies. The transmission rate for program participants has dropped to less than 5 percent.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Facebook Fundraising Works Better With Fewer Friends
People sometimes give more to benefit the fundraiser than the charity, which has surprising implications for how to use social media to do good.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Donors Who Want Social Change Should Do More to Fix Democracy
Far less than 1 percent of all grants go to groups working to reduce the influence of money in politics and preserve the integrity of self-government.
By David Rockefeller Jr.
Contributor
It’s Time for a Strategy on Rural Philanthropy, Not Just Shaming
Climate change, inequality, jobs, and many other issues foundations care about require more attention outside the cities where so many grant makers focus their work.
By BRUCE KARMAZIN
Contributor
New Overtime Rules Are Good for Nonprofits — and Good for America
It’s hypocritical for organizations committed to social justice to complain about paying workers decent wages.
By GARA LAMARCHE
Contributor
Lottery Winners Pour Millions Into Nonprofits and Make Diversity a Priority
Marvin and Mae Acosta, who pledged some of their $328 million in Powerball winnings to charity, may want to give Alcario and Carmen Castellano a call for advice. They hit the jackpot 15 years ago, and dozens of San Jose area charities ended up as winners, too.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How Philanthropy Can Show That Black Lives Matter
Foundations could reduce the heartbreaking violence of recent weeks by helping cash-strapped cities so there’s no reason for them to ask cops to raise revenue by targeting people of color for fine- and fee-producing minor offenses.
By AMY SCHILLER
Contributor
How an Advocacy Group Takes an All-Hands-on-Deck Approach to Big Donors
More than 60 staff members, trustees, and volunteers at Jewish Voice for Peace manage about 600 major-donor relationships in addition to other roles they play at the organization.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How Fundraisers Can Deal With Donors Who Have a Different Worldview
What to do when a donor wants to talk politics — or uses old-fashioned terms that make you cringe.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
What to Do When Donor Values Clash With Your Mission
Your nonprofit wants to be inclusive. Your donors don’t. Can your relationship be saved?
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor