Anti-Fossil-Fuel Movement Gains a Nonprofit Following
Membership in a network of foundations that have pledged to divorce themselves from fossil fuels has grown from 17 to 72 since January.
By Avi Wolfman-Arent
Contributor
Nonprofit Workers Should Feel Free to Change Jobs and Causes
It’s time to talk to rising stars about the skills they need for a strong career, regardless of where they land.
By ADAM SIMON
Contributor
An Unexpected Online Success Offers a Blueprint for Other Nonprofits
A small “ragtag” team with no budget built an impressive audience on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and Tumblr in just five years.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Groups Take Differing Approaches to Windfalls
Some spend freely from fattened endowments, while others stick to more stodgy and sustainable giving formulas.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Endowment Performance at Select Nonprofits
Results from a Chronicle survey of nonprofits show wide disparities in investment earnings.
Foundations Struggle to Show Diversity in Hiring Money Managers
Knight’s leader Alberto Ibargüen has made it a priority to increase the number of minority-owned firms that manage the fund’s fortune.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Efforts to Outsmart Market Give Ground to Basic Investment Strategies
While rich nonprofits used to do well with hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investments, groups that invest in stocks are faring better.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
A Charity Leader Believes Tech Holds the Key to College for Needy Students
Keith Frome, who helped found College Summit, is now returning to the group to lead it.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Foundations Should Support ‘Reproductive Justice,’ Not Just ‘Pro-Choice’
Young people and those who are poor and face other challenges don’t respond to the phrases so many nonprofits use to push legalized abortion.
By VANESSA DANIEL and TERESA YOUNGER
5 Falsehoods That Keep Nonprofits From Making the Most of Social Media
Nonprofits must stop worrying about crazy people online and instead focus on finding well-meaning people who want to help shape and support their cause, says the author of Matterness, a book released last week.
By ALLISON FINE
Contributor
More groups are stepping up planned-giving drives.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
‘New York’ Profiles Pierre Omidyar’s Giving; ‘People’ Spotlights Ford Foundation’s President
The trouble at Mr. Omidyar’s nonprofit news and entertainment site prompts scrutiny.
For years, the so-called endowment model could do no wrong. Now, as stocks roar higher, the endowment model appears to be faltering once again.
The Power of ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’
Three lessons every nonprofit can learn from having people act out their experiences with social problems and work toward solutions.
By PAUL VANDECARR
Contributor
Assets Have Grown 48% at Small Foundations Since the Recession
Investment earnings grew by nearly 13 percent last year alone.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Nonprofit Uses Radio for Education in Liberia
One charity is helping students keep up with their studies as schools in the country are closed to contain the Ebola outbreak.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor