$500 Million Campaign Reveals New Fundraising Might for National Park Foundation
The 50-year-old organization had never raised more than $25 million in a year until it launched its first-ever drive in 2013. Now, its leaders are surveying vast new territory.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Bitcoin Research Gets $50 Million Boost From Ripple
Also, the Wounded Warrior Project awards $45 million to support mental-health services for veterans and their families, and the Episcopal Health Foundation spends $1 million to provide reproductive-health care to poor women in Texas.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
NoVo Boosts Commitment to Grass-Roots Collaboration to $34 Million
The foundation established by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, the daughter-in-law and son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, aims for a “bolder” statement in the Trump era.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Special Breed of Grant Makers Hunts for New Ways to Solve Bedeviling Problems
Strategists from more than a dozen foundations are at the forefront of a movement to identify off-the-radar needs where philanthropy could make a big difference.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Tools to Help You Respond to This Year’s ‘Giving USA’ Findings
Tips and advice for winning major gifts, tapping corporate and foundation grants, and adjusting your fundraising strategy in unpredictable times.
By Margie Fleming Glennon
Chief Content Officer
Giving Surged to $410 Billion in 2017. Will the Growth Last?
Charitable support increased in dollar terms for the fourth straight year, according to the newly released “Giving USA 2018" report, but there are warning signs ahead in donor trends, tax changes, and trade-war threats.
By Heather Joslyn and Timothy Sandoval
Craigslist Founder’s $20 Million Gift Signals Ongoing Commitment to Journalism
Billionaire Craig Newmark says his donation to the City University of New York’s graduate journalism program is part of a campaign to counter fake news and “bad actors” who are undermining democracy.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: $50 Million Gift to Cincinnati Zoo
In other articles, the former chairman of Wells Fargo is giving $20 million to DePauw University; the Gates Foundation is starting a nonprofit biotech in Boston; a little-known conservative Midwestern couple is wielding big influence in philanthropy; “design thinking” can help nonprofits with fundraising; how to get narcissists to give to charity; and other articles about legal news and investing and opinion and much more.
Podcast: How the Irvine Foundation Takes On the Deep Economic Divide in Calif.
The grant maker’s president, Don Howard, talks about the challenges of working in a state where 40 percent of its 40 million people cycle in and out of poverty.
Daily News Roundup: Mo. House Drops Attempt to Get Records From Greitens Nonprofit
In other articles, the Danish drugmaker Lundbeck has agreed to pay $52.6 million to resolve a U.S. inquiry into its financial support of patient-assistance charitable foundations; the Shubert Foundation is giving $30 million to more than 500 performing-arts groups; families on the Gaza Strip are increasingly needy due in part to the freezing of U.S. aid; and more news and features.
New Fund to Support #MeToo Efforts
The New York Women’s Foundation will soon start making five- and six-figure grants via a new fund aimed at supporting overlooked nonprofits. Activists like Tarana Burke will steer the grant-making decisions.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
An Urgent Call for Philanthropy to Take a New Tack on Foreign Aid
Foundations and donors can help communities become resilient and self-sufficient so they no longer rely on assistance from the world’s most prosperous governments.
By Kristin Lord
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: David Koch Leaves Conservative Nonprofit
The billionaire industrialist and philanthropist is in declining health. In other articles, money for the universal basic income experiment in California is coming from the Economic Security Project, co-chaired by one of Facebook’s founders, Chris Hughes; the Lichtenstein Foundation is giving big while winding down; the Kellogg Foundation is starting a $10 million small-business loan fund for Battle Creek, Mich.; and more news and opinion.
Grants Roundup: Stanford Receives $15 Million for Women’s Leadership
Also, the Ikea Foundation invests $2.3 million in clean electricity for 1 million people in India and East Africa, and the Kentucky Derby Museum will use $1 million for an expansion project.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Daily News Roundup: Anti-Gun-Violence Teens on Get-Out-the-Vote Drive
The March for Our Lives youth movement will go on a bus tour across the country this summer to register young people to vote. In other articles, the Gates Foundation found it benefited from offering 52 weeks of paid parental leave; some wonder if the IRS’s scrutiny of blue states’ tax workarounds will also bring more attention red states; among the options Starbucks’s Howard Schultz is weighing is philanthropy; and more news.
Corporations Use Charitable Giving to Influence Lawmakers, Study Finds
Grants from big-business foundations flow to causes favored by legislators with clout on issues of company interest, creating what one economist involved in the research calls a “tax-advantaged form of lobbying.”
By Alex Daniels
Contributor