When Gifts Soar, Charities Often Sock the Extra Money Away
When charities bring in more than they did the year before, they spend only about a quarter on services and sock away most of the rest.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
America’s Big Corporate Givers
The Chronicle of Philanthropy asked the nation’s biggest companies how much they give to charity.
Corporate and Charity Leaders Exchange Advice
Nonprofits and companies have much to gain from getting to know each other better. The Chronicle asked leaders experienced in corporate-nonprofit partnerships for advice on how best to support each other.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
See the data along with analysis and strategies to help charities benefit from companies that increasingly want to be seen as leaders on a wide spectrum of social and environmental issues.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Drug Makers Give Billions to Fight Neglected Diseases Globally
Global-development nonprofits are racking up victories in the fight against diseases like trachoma. None of it would be possible without billions in donations from big pharmaceutical companies.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
VoteRunLead trained 10,000 women last year in how to run a campaign.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Donor Driven by Business Acumen and Gut Instinct
Adrienne Arsht has a personal interest in human resilience. But she also gives to education, health, the performing arts, and other causes.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
We Need Corporate America in the Fight for Justice
At a time when the president is working to undermine national cohesion and foment racial discord, businesses must do more, says Jeff Raikes, a philanthropist and former head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
By Jeff Raikes
Contributor
Corporate Cash Giving Rises 5%, Exclusive Chronicle Survey Shows
Total giving, including products, grew 8 percent, driven mainly by overseas donations of drugs by large pharmaceutical companies.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips and Megan O’Neil
In other news about people in philanthropy, the American Diabetes Association taps a new CEO, and EngenderHealth has a new president
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Most grant makers would be better off using basic investing strategies rather than relying on active money managers and exotic financial instruments, the data shows.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
Drug, Tech, and Financial-Services Companies Top List of Corporate Donors
The Chronicle’s 2018 report on corporate giving features 19 years’ worth of data on philanthropy among the country’s largest public companies.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips and Alex Daniels
Bicycle-Powered Rickshaws Get Older People Out and About
Cycling Without Age gets people away from the TV and involved in conversations and sharing memories.
By Ariella Phillips
Contributor
A New Critique Raises a Question: Can the Rich Learn How to Save the World?
Winners Take All, a book released today, suggests that the philanthropic elite are doing little to make things better. But wouldn’t it be smart to figure out how they can help, rather than just condemning their actions?
By BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Contributor
How a Phone Call — and Smart Data Tracking — Led to a $100 Million Windfall
The nonprofit was ready and able to move fast when a corporate donor called out of the blue and started asking if it could put a large sum of money to good use.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Why We’re Investing $59 Million to Make It Easier for Social-Service Groups to Do More Good
Using data is key to alleviating poverty, but few of the people who work with vulnerable Americans have access to what they need to know. Here’s how we plan to change that — with help from business, government, nonprofits and other donors, write Connie and Steve Ballmer.
By steve ballmer
Contributor