Kellogg Fund Launches National Effort to Push Racial Equity
Some 70 organizations have joined the national Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation effort unveiled Thursday by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Battle Creek Enquirer writes
Hillary Backers Fear Collision Course With Clinton Foundation
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is examining whether to scale back its activity in 2016, according to Politico, which says top backers of Hillary Clinton’s White House bid are privately grumbling that the foundation’s fundraising and high-profile meetings are competing for donors’ attention and keeping former President Bill Clinton off the campaign trail.
Charity Navigator Must Grow Up or Shut Down
As demonstrated by this week’s flap over administrative expenses at the Wounded Warrior Project, the watchdog group has misled the public about what matters in evaluating performance.
By DOUG WHITE
Contributor
Let’s Join Forces to Increase Charitable Giving to 3% of GDP
Pushing to exceed the stagnant 2-percent giving rate as a national goal is more important than devoting all our efforts to tax deductions for donors.
By Kevin Murphy
Contributor
To Build Causes Into Movements, Look Beyond Hashtags
Traditional organizing and emotional attachment to a charity’s work must accompany clever messages.
By CASSANDRA EVARD
Contributor
Showtime’s ‘Billions’ Offers a Cynical View of Big Giving
A thinly veiled version of the David Geffen-Lincoln Center naming rights deal gets the spotlight in a popular new television show.
By DOUG WHITE
Contributor
Philanthropy Must Understand Racism Is Not Dead
In Washington, grant makers are about to undertake an ambitious effort to explore whether their work is doing enough to help blacks and other minorities.
By Tamara Copeland
Contributor
Opinion: Time to Stop Courts From Compelling Donations
A law professor assails the practice of federal judges and prosecutors incorporating compulsory charitable gifts into verdicts and settlements in a Wall Street Journal opinion column.
Opinion: Today’s Big Philanthropists Are in the Midst of a Revolution
Bill and Melinda Gates have ignited a rise in giving in the tradition of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford of years past, writes Bill George, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, in Fortune.
5 Ways to Increase Nonprofit-Advocacy Clout
Taking a cue from corporate America can pay off in big ways.
By Alan J. Abramson
Contributor