Low Pay Hurts Nonprofits and Workers. Some Groups Are Fighting Back.
Meager salaries limit who can take nonprofit jobs — and who can afford to stay. That can hurt your mission and your bottom line, both now and down the road. Some organizations are figuring out ways to pay more.
Improving Lives Through Better Vision
OneSight builds eye-examination centers and is expanding into new areas including Rwanda and Brazil.
By Julian Wyllie
Contributor
In a loft space in downtown Seattle, Giving Tech Labs technologists who cut their teeth at Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo devise ways cloud computing and artificial intelligence can better serve charities.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
How Grant Makers Can Stop the Toxic Culture Driving Away Fundraisers
It’s not just poor management at nonprofits that puts development professionals under pressure but mistreatment and power plays by grant makers.
Put a Stake in “Zombie Charity.” Philanthropy Is for the Living.
Require all foundations to give at least 7 percent a year — and extend that mandate to donor-advised funds. Otherwise money just ends up going to big nonprofits that don’t need the help nearly as much as grassroots and advocacy causes.
By John Arnold
Contributor
Introducing Our New Fundraising Newsletter
Senior editor Eden Stiffman wants to help fundraisers navigate the complexities of a changing landscape and learn from the wisdom of their development peers.
At 13, She Emigrated From Cuba. Today, at 31, She Leads a Cultural Center Celebrating Cuban Culture.
María Carla Chicuén wants to make CasaCuba, at Florida International University, a repository for Cuban heritage and a hub for Miami’s vibrant Cuban-American community.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
How a University Used Data Analytics to Improve Fundraising — and You Can, Too
Data shapes fundraising strategies and performance evaluations at the University of Iowa.
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor