Five N.M. Community Foundations Consider Mega-Merger
After joining forces on a statewide giving day that raised $853,000, five major New Mexico grant makers are exploring new models for collaborating, including a possible merger of all the groups, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
Fla. Museum Merger Plan Sparks Feud Between Board and Town
Officials in North Miami, Fla., are fighting a plan by leaders of the town’s small but highly regarded Museum of Contemporary Art to merge the institution with another museum in neighboring Miami Beach, writes The New York Times.
Online Fundraising at Large Charities
The Chronicle’s annual survey of online fundraising shows data for 2013 with a comparative look at online giving trends since 1999.
Web Traffic and Smartphone Donations Are Growing Fast
About 14 percent of all online gifts to the Heritage Foundation and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center were made with mobile devices.
Nonprofits That Raised the Most in Recurring Gifts
Hear to Heart International raised 73.5 percent of its online gifts from donors who gave on a regular basis.
Online Fundraising Goes Mainstream
Internet giving grew by roughly 13 percent last year, according to a Chronicle survey of 100 of the largest nonprofits.
By Alex Daniels and Anu Narayanswamy
How The Chronicle Compiled Online-Fundraising Data
All of the organizations in the Philanthropy 400 received questionnaires, and of those, 100 sent us their data.
How America’s Richest Donors Work to Shape Policy
Donors like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are spending millions on outreach, television ads, and investigative journalism to affect public issues.
‘Bloomberg Businessweek’ Unmasks Mystery Donors
Three men gave more than $9.7-bilion through a series of secret trusts; The New Yorker looks at the Nature Conservancy and at Mark Zuckerberg’s Newark schools gift.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Critics Say New Short Form for Tax-Exempt Status Will Draw ‘Cheats’
Some worry the IRS’s abbreviated application for federal tax-exempt status will ask for so little information, it will invite fraud.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor