Charity Care at Pa. Hospitals Lags Behind Other States
Free care to low-income patients amounted to less than 1 percent of revenue at nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s hospitals in 2014, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports, citing data that medical centers provided to the state agency that monitors health-care costs.
Obituary: Suzanne Wright, Co-Founder of Autism Speaks
Ms. Wright, whose organization advocates for the autistic and funds research into the disorder, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 69, reports The New York Times.
Data and the Search for Big Donors
How fundraisers crunch numbers, sift Facebook chatter, and analyze their results to learn exactly what donors want.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ideas that analysts noodle around with today could become the cutting-edge approaches of tomorrow. Here are two still largely on the drawing board.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘The Serena Williams of Fundraising’
Outgoing Stanford President John Hennessy raised billions for the university by steering clear of talking about goals in dollar terms and communicating clearly what a gift would accomplish.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
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
‘Development’ No More: Fundraiser Job Titles Change With the Times
From “chief progress officer” to “director of e-philanthropy,” nonprofits say they are trying to better reflect the heart of the job. Are they sowing confusion instead?
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Turkish Complaint Prompts Tex. Review of Charter Schools
Texas’s education agency is looking into the operations of nonprofit network Harmony Public Schools, which Turkey’s government links to an expatriate Muslim cleric it claims orchestrated last month’s failed coup, the Houston Chronicle and The Wall Street Journal report.
Gifts Roundup: U. of Notre Dame Gets $5 Million for Marching Band and Sports Fields
Other major donations include a $16-million estate gift to Riddle Hospital near Philadelphia and a $5-million estate pledge supporting the Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Northern California.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor