Lauren Stakias: the Art of the Deal
Building corporate partnerships and traveling the globe to find new funding sources comes naturally to this young fundraising leader at the Museum of Modern Art.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Rachel Bjorklund: How to Build Support for the Courageous, Lonely Donor
World Vision’s national campaign director brings together wealthy people with a passion for helping the poor in ways that make them feel comfortable talking about their giving.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Doug Ulman: Grace Under Pressure
The leader who guided Livestrong through its darkest days has moved on to a nonprofit in Ohio, where he is working to turn a regional cycling event into a national fundraising powerhouse.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Henry Timms: Reimagining Influence
The leader of 92nd Street Y and founder of Giving Tuesday thinks and cares deeply about how power is distributed and used within organizations and within society.
By Allison Fine and Guest Contributor
Nick Tedesco: Confidant of the Uber-Wealthy
Counseling the rich is a natural fit for someone whose résumé features leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Trish Tchume: Community Builder Looks for New Ways to Serve
She is exploring her next career steps and exploring interests, including racial justice, after building the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network into a national powerhouse.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: $45 Billion to Change the World
After rocking the philanthropy world with the sheer size of their pledge, the Facebook co-founder and his wife outline an unusual plan for the money that has raised hopes — and a few eyebrows.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lateefah Simon: ‘Moving at the Speed of Twitter’
The teen mother got her first nonprofit job at 17, counseling young women on the streets of San Francisco. At 26, she won a MacArthur “genius” grant for her methods of helping poor young women of color.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Liesel Pritzker Simmons: All In on Impacting Investing
Her Blue Haven Initiative is a laboratory to answer the question: What happens when a family uses its wealth prudently to optimize its social and environmental impact?
40 Under 40: Young Leaders Who Are Solving the Problems of Today — and Tomorrow
Philanthropy has long suffered the reputation, rightly or wrongly, that it is a stuffy, formal field of conservative approaches. No more. The nonprofit world today is getting pulled in all directions by a host of new ideas about how work for the common good can be carried out and financed.
Capital Campaigns Increasingly Common, and They Work, Study Says
About 46 percent of nonprofits were in either a capital or a special campaign during the first six months of last year, up from 12 percent during the same period of 2011, according to a survey.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Banking Giant HSBC Cuts Links With Big Muslim Aid Charity
The global bank halted services a year ago to international humanitarian agency Islamic Relief, allegedly over concerns that the nonprofit’s funds could end up in the hands of terrorist groups, Economic Times writes, citing reporting by London’s Sunday Times.
Opinion: 2016 Shaping Up as a Big Year for ‘Dark Money’
Presidential politics and congressional action are further opening the floodgates for funds from “social welfare” nonprofits to flow into this year’s campaigns, a Bloomberg View columnist writes.
Linsey McGoey Discusses the Perils of ‘Philanthrocapitalism’
The author and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation critic talks to left-wing magazine In These Times about her examination of modern-day mega-philanthropy and the market-based approach to achieving social ends.
Visa and Dell Help Girl Scouts Boost Digital Cookie Program
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.'s burgeoning online cookie sales will get an estimated $3 million assist this year from the companies’ investment in training, tech tools, and digital features, reports The New York Times.
Obamacare Opt-Out Spurs Growth of Faith-Based Health Plans
Health-care ministries that offer coverage outside the insurance system have grown rapidly in recent years as consumers take advantage of an exception for such nonprofit providers in the Affordable Care Act, writes The Wall Street Journal.