Opinion: Grant Makers Can Promote Diversity by Focusing on Who’s Managing Endowment Assets
Foundations are taking many steps to promote inclusiveness, but too often they forget one area that matters: making sure the people who invest their assets aren’t just white men. Here’s how one foundation is changing the equation.
By MARY MCCLYMONT
Contributor
How to Capitalize on Donor-Advised Funds
The Chronicle’s “What Donors Want: Donor-Advised Funds” gives you advice you can use to tap into this fast-growing trend.
Tell Us: What’s Your Hobby or Passion Outside of Your Nonprofit Job?
We’re looking for your hidden talents, interesting side gigs, and other off-hours accomplishments for an upcoming story.
By cody.switzer
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Boy Scouts CEO Apologizes for Trump Speech
Also, a judge has ordered Apple to pay $500 million to a research foundation, and President Trump has donated his $100,000 second-quarter salary to the Department of Education for a STEM camp.
Women Still Face a Glass Ceiling at Foundations, Study Shows
They make up three-fourths of the work force in philanthropy, but they are underrepresented in the top jobs, according to a new Council on Foundations report.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Dream Corps and NAACP Get New Leaders
Other recent personnel moves include new leaders at the Television Academy and the Gill and Knight foundations.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Celebrating Success: How Our Readers Mark Fundraising Accomplishments
Symbolic traditions, surprise parties, and specialty drinks are some ways you told us your organizations recognize achievements.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
How to Keep Your Charity Neutral in a Partisan World
Nonprofit leaders offer smart tips for remaining apolitical to build bipartisan support among lawmakers and donors. The advice can also benefit groups that take a neutral stance but are plunged unexpectedly into a political controversy, as happened to the Boy Scouts this week after President Trump made a speech at its jamboree that included partisan political comments.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How the Chronicle Analyzed the Growth of Endowments
We examined more than 1,600 nonprofits with endowments of least $35 million.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Many Big Nonprofits Rapidly Stockpiling Endowment Cash, Chronicle Data Shows
For 253 of the more than 1,600 nonprofits studied, the dollars flowing into their endowments over six years exceeded the dollars flowing out by more than four to one.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Hundreds of nonprofits across the country are amassing huge amounts of money — many times more than they spend annually — and Congress is taking a closer look at these stockpiles of tax-exempt cash.
By Megan O’Neil and joshua.hatch
Daily News Roundup: Judge Clears Legal-Aid Groups to Keep Helping Immigrants
The ruling blocks Justice Department efforts to restrict nonprofits from giving legal help to potential deportees unless they take them on as formal clients. Also, the NAACP names an interim chief executive, and Kalamazoo officials unveil details of a planned $500 million foundation to help the financially struggling city.
Nonprofit Coalition Takes a New Tack in the Trump Era
Dan Cardinali has spent his first year as head of Independent Sector finding ways to promote a populist tax idea and taking a more expansive approach to getting charities and foundations to work together.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
How to Overcome Implicit Bias in the Hiring Process
Experts shine a light on subtle ways prejudice creeps into hiring and offer advice on attracting a more diverse pool of candidates.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Controversy Over Coke Giving Follows Ga. Health Official to CDC
The soft-drink giant funded anti-obesity programs in Georgia when Brenda Fitzgerald, incoming head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was the state’s health commissioner. Also, volunteerism jumps in New York City, and a tale of two Utah nonprofits that barred LGBT groups from events.
Daily News Roundup: House Approves $145 Million Each to Arts and Humanities Endowments
Also, a Brooklyn hospital gets $25 million from a family foundation established by Jeff Bezos’s mother and stepfather, and Howard Buffett donates $3 million to expand a children’s museum.