The Gateses’ Divorce Offers a Case Study in What’s Wrong With the Way Journalists Cover Philanthropy
The focus on personality obscures what matters: what Bill Gates is doing to transform global health and stave off climate change, writes a former Gates Foundation official.
By Craig Cramer
Contributor
Impact Investing Works. Here’s How Our Family Foundation Made Sure It Makes a Real Difference.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation voted in 2017 to ensure all of its endowment was invested in ways that were in sync with its charitable mission. Here’s how the chairman of its board, Jaimie Mayer suggests others can pursue the approach wisely.
By Jaimie Mayer
Contributor
How to Ease Tension Between Communications and Development Departments
Three reasons friction occurs between fundraisers and communicators — and five ways to prevent it.
By Jackie Yodashkin
Contributor
When CEOs Are Not in the Room During Board Votes on Their Pay, Their Salaries Suffer
The study by three finance scholars found that compensation drops 2 to 3 percent, and the CEOs spent 2 percent more time working.
A Former Obama Policy Adviser Will Lead Alliance for Justice
Also, the Deaconess Foundation has named a health-equity advocate as its next CEO, and the Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has picked its first executive director.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
If You Want to Work for Our Nonprofit, You Need to Get Vaccinated
The Los Angeles LGBT Center, like many organizations across the country, struggled with whether to require employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Its journey offers lessons for other nonprofits grappling with this issue.
By Lorri L. Jean
Contributor
How to Hand Over the Reins: Two Leaders Share Lessons From Their Own Transition
A former and current executive director of an organization share their tips for a smooth handover of leadership.
By Barbara A. Glassman and RACHEL HOWARD
Education and Literacy Group Pratham USA Names First CEO
Also, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has chosen a new executive vice president of programs, and Paul Cheung of the Knight Foundation will take the helm of the Center for Public Integrity.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Kellogg Foundation V.P. Will Lead Living Cities
Also, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has named the executive director of its Creatives Rebuild New York program, and the Smithsonian Institution has tapped the next director of the National Museum of African Art.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
How MacKenzie Scott’s Gifts to Leaders of Color Fuel Transformation
Unrestricted dollars from the billionaire allow us to experiment, make discoveries, and protect the health of our organizations — as well as ourselves and our colleagues.
By Bianca Casanova Anderson
Contributor
Strong Hiring at Nonprofits Means 60% of Jobs Lost to Covid Have Been Restored
Education groups are hiring fastest while health-care organizations are lagging. At current rates, it will take until September 2022 for the nonprofit world to expand beyond pre-pandemic levels.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Tech Tool Helps Nonprofits Attract Supporters on Facebook — and Stay in Touch With Them
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has experimented with fundraising challenges on the social media giant’s groups, Messenger, and advertising.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
A Plea From Community Nonprofits for Investment, Equity, and Less Bureaucracy
Small nonprofits should require less red tape, and they need support for efforts to advance fair pay and benefits — and recognition for making communities stronger.
By JOAN GARRY
Contributor
Gates Foundation Announces $15 Billion Gift From Founders and Expansion of the Board
The foundation also disclosed an agreement between the two philanthropists that could lead to the departure of Melinda French Gates if the couple finds working together too difficult.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Your Nonprofit Coach: Advice for Executives and Board Members
The columnist Joan Garry tackles tough topics that face CEOs, board members, and other nonprofit leaders as they work together to advance important causes.
Patrick Gaspard Will Take the Helm of the Center for American Progress
Also, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles named a rabbi as its next CEO, and the Simons Foundation has selected an astrophysicist to succeed Marilyn Simons as president.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions