Why the Quiet Collapse of a Crowdfunding Platform Should Alarm Philanthropy
Nonprofit crowdfunding platforms get money to the people and places big for-profit platforms ignore, but they need funding themselves to survive.
By Roger Doiron
Contributor
Don’t Shut It Down, Bill! Why the Gates Foundation Should Outlive Its Endowment.
Bill Gates is right to accelerate giving but wrong to close one of the most effective private funding institutions on the planet.
By Buzz Schmidt
Contributor
Direct Mail Rewired Nonprofits — and America — for the Worse. Here’s How to Do Better.
Audience segmenting and Zip-code targeting trained nonprofit supporters to accept a passive role in causes they care about. The way forward puts them back at the center of the work.
By Jason Lewis
Contributor
The Tax Bill Is a Warning to the Nonprofit Sector: Reform or Face the Consequences
Wealthy foundations and nonprofits need to change their ways — not scare the rest of the field into submission.
By Craig Kennedy
Contributor
Is Bill Gates’s Long Goodbye a Win for Trust-Based Philanthropy?
The foundation’s planned closure marks the end of the once-celebrated era of expert-driven giving.
By Leslie Lenkowsky
Contributor
Federal Public Health Funding May Soon Evaporate. Here’s How Philanthropy Should Prepare
While grant makers can’t make up the budget shortfall, they can coordinate fast, local action when federal help falls short.
By Mitch Stripling
Contributor
What an Andrew Carnegie ‘Interview’ Reveals About Philanthropy’s Sins — and How to Move Beyond Them
A ‘podcast appearance’ by the father of modern philanthropy exposes the urgent need to let go of his teachings.
By Dimple Abichandani
Contributor
How Philanthropy Can Tap Unemployed USAID Workers to Fix Democracy at Home
Funding a ‘Democracy Corps’ national service program would ensure valuable expertise doesn’t go to waste.
By Michael Jarvis and Dean Jackson
Harvard, Public Trust, and a Warning for the Nonprofit Sector
Elite universities have alienated many Americans, leaving these institutions vulnerable to government attacks. The social change world is next.
By Eboo Patel
Contributor
What a Spanish Cathedral Can Teach Funders About Responding to Trump
During the next 1,300 days of Trump’s presidency, let’s put the bricks in place for a better future while doing everything we can to hold up the foundation.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor