Fidelity Investments Taps New Head of Social Impact
Also, the Democratizing Philanthropy Project announces its first executive director, and Steve Waldman, the co-founder of Report for America, will now lead the Rebuild Local News Coalition.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Charities Too Often Mislead With Impressive-Sounding Data. Donors Must Learn to See Past the Facade.
Relying on simple metrics to demonstrate a nonprofit’s effectiveness to potential donors creates a false narrative about how sustainable change happens.
By Robin Pierro
Contributor
7 Ways to Know Your Board Is Diverse
One clue: Board conversations are messy in the best of ways.
By Joan Garry
Contributor
Experts Offer Advice on Creating Livestream Fundraising Event
Livestreams can bring in big sums. The gaming fundraising event Extra Life, for example, has raised more than $100 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals since 2008. Plus: Read how livestreamers are upping their game to raise money for charity.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Nonprofits Enter 2023 With Inflation Cooling and Job Market Still Strong
Organizations are seeking loans and taking other steps to help keep workers, and those who are trying to build or renovate facilities are facing high borrowing costs. Meanwhile, foundation assets have been hit hard, so it might be tougher for nonprofits to obtain grants in the coming year or two.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Nonprofit Registry Launches New Dot-Giving Domain to Help Charities Raise Money
The new domain can be used by charities to complement their main site and make fundraising more efficient or by individuals to create sites to solicit gifts for charities or by corporations to highlight their social-responsibility programs.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Heising-Simons Foundation Selects New CEO
Also, ActBlue has named its next leader, and John King Jr., president of the Education Trust, has left to become chancellor of the State University of New York system.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Foundation Assets Plummeted Nearly 20% Last Year, Putting Grant Making at Risk
The drop comes after three years of gains, so that might mitigate the pain of the losses.
Inflation Hasn’t Increased U.S. Food Insecurity Over All, According to a New Tracker
One reason could be that government programs and nonprofits that help people get enough food are succeeding.
By Sam Polzin and Jayson Lusk
Nonprofit Employment Has Finally Recovered From Jobs Lost to Covid
Nonprofits likely first recovered from pandemic job losses in October 2022 and have added jobs since December.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Heinz Endowments Will Install Next President in April
Also, the GroundTruth Project has tapped a new leader, and Ronn Richard plans to retire as president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation later this year.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Chronicle of Philanthropy Names Its First Chief Revenue Officer
The organization’s move is a key step as it gets ready to become an independent nonprofit that can expand its services to the nonprofit world.
Recovering From the Pandemic, Groups Make Use of Covid-Relief Money That Keeps On Giving
Organizations are availing themselves of a nearly three-year-old tax credit that Congress revamped to make more businesses and nonprofits eligible.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
A Career Dedicated to Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross, who won a prestigious MacArthur fellowship in 2022, helped expand the abortion debate by creating a framework that brings together social justice and reproductive rights.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Being Part of Management in Labor Talks Is Unsettling for Some Nonprofit Leaders
When employees organize a union at their workplace, the charity’s leaders are sometimes unaware and are caught off-guard by the news. Plus, read our report on how <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/article/here-come-the-nonprofit-unions">nonprofit groups are unionizing</a>.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
How the Columbus Zoo Tests the Fitness of Its Fundraising Program
The nonprofit revved up small-gift donations with a free data-analytics product offered by the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects