Daily News Roundup: Embracing Giving as a ‘Child of the Pledge’
Since billionaire businessman and mental-health donor Ted Stanley’s death last year, his son Jonathan has focused on fulfilling his father’s Giving Pledge commitment. Plus, more details on the inflighting at the Heritage Foundation.
Charities are stepping up efforts to help their supporters raise money from friends. While the amount of money raised is still relatively small, the tactics help nonprofits expand their web of connections to potential donors.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Facebook and Twitter are important, but the Women’s Marches and other activist campaigns prove that an older form of electronic technology still has power to motivate followers, says Brian Young of Action Network.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Free Tool Helps Nonprofits Draw More Social-Media Fans
Facebook’s CrowdTangle tracks the performance of all an organization’s social-media accounts, and savvy nonprofits can use the data to boost fundraising.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Trustee rosters at major grant makers sorely lack socioeconomic and geographic diversity, a Chronicle analysis shows. What does that mean for philanthropy?
By Drew Lindsay and Rebecca Koenig
Inside Philanthropy’s Boardroom ‘Bubble’
At the 20 wealthiest national foundations, which control $162 billion in assets, plenty of board members have degrees from top private universities, but only a handful live in rural or poor parts of the United States.
‘Coastal Elite’ Concerns Extend to Foundations, Chronicle Data Shows
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders railed against the power of an entrenched leadership class. They didn’t target philanthropy, but they could have, based on our first-of-its-kind analysis of major grant makers’ boards.
By Drew Lindsay and Rebecca Koenig
On Gender and Race, Change Is Slow
A Chronicle review of trustees at 20 major U.S. grant makers suggests considerable work lies ahead.
By Drew Lindsay and Rebecca Koenig
A Progressive Environmentalist Fires Back at Trump Populism
Foundation leader Farhad Ebrahimi is using his inherited wealth to bring the fight over climate change into the social-justice movement.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
Hollywood Producer Pursues ‘Focused and Specific’ Giving Strategy
Steve Tisch, whose film credits include Forrest Gump and Risky Business, learned his philanthropy from wealthy parents who stressed that the family’s status carried great responsibility to help others.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor