Tips for Crafting an Annual Fundraising Plan That Delivers
Fundraising executives and experts explain how to build a 12-month development strategy to focus your nonprofit’s outreach efforts and raise more money.
By LISA SCHOHL
Contributor
Leader Discusses Potential and Pitfalls of Efforts to Boost Equity in Grant Making
Marcus Walton, who recently took the helm of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, talks about the “growth trajectory” for groups trying change basic attitudes.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Indiana U. Appoints Next Leader of Women’s Philanthropy Institute (Transitions)
Also, Grantmakers in Health chooses a seasoned federal health leader as CEO, McKnight Foundation selects an interim leader, and Paul Grogan is departing the Boston Foundation after 18 years.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Andrew Yang Proposes $100 Government Grant to Every American to Give to Charity
In response to questions from Independent Sector, Yang, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg vowed to expand national-service opportunities; Klobuchar and Buttigieg focused on volunteerism to curb climate change.
By dan.parks
Contributor
How to Manage Change in a Time of Growth
Acknowledge and work through the tension created by change, and listen to all who are affected.
By JOAN GARRY
Contributor
Some Nonprofits Say Donor-Advised Funds Hurt Relationships With Supporters
A survey by the Center for Effective Philanthropy also found some praise for DAFs, with 22 percent citing lower administrative burdens.
By dan.parks
Contributor
A Focus on Strengthening Leaders Is Key to Advancing Justice
Laurene Powell Jobs’s philanthropy focuses on offering general operating support, leadership training, communications support, and inspiration and self-care for social-justice leaders. And it makes small grants at times, such as small financial incentives to families that take in people who just left prison.
Laura Arnold, a Giving Pledge, says traditional approaches to philanthropy provide instant gratification from a person who got help while seeking systemic change is a battle that takes a long time and can get nasty. Still, she says, philanthropists are in the best position to fight for new approaches, even controversial ones, because they don’t have to worry about protecting their brand as business leaders and politicians do.
Unicef USA Picks Michael Nyenhuis as Its Next CEO (Transitions)
Also, Christine Squires has been promoted to succeed Nyenhuis at Americares, and the Open Society Foundations names its next leader of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Soros Urges World Leaders to Back His $1 Billion Global Education Network
The philanthropist cited climate change, authoritarianism, and displaced people as among the growing problems the project aims to address.
By dan.parks
Contributor
The executive directors of 11 major nonprofits released a letter at the Davos World Economic Forum calling on Icann’s board to block the sale just as Democratic members of the House and Senate opposed the sale, along with a coalition of charity regulators.
By MICHAEL THEIS
Contributor
Schwab Charitable Donor-Advised Funds Distributed $2.7 Billion in 2019
The funds came in the form of more than 600,000 grants to 89,400 charities. Also, Schwab Charitable reported a 54 percent increase in the number of grants made from mobile devices.
By MICHAEL THEIS
Contributor
Grant Makers Push for More Trust in Relationships With Nonprofits
Less paperwork. Simplified ways of measuring impact. More general operating support. It’s all part of the Trust Based Philanthropy Project’s plan for changing the relationship between foundations and grantees.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Nancy Lindborg Will Lead $7.7 Billion Packard Foundation
Lindborg currently is president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan federal organization dedicated to preventing and resolving armed conflict globally.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Arcus Foundation, National Geographic Society Pick New Leaders (Transitions)
Also, John Bernstein, the Ford Foundation’s COO, will join Vulcan, the company that the late Paul Allen founded to handle his finances and philanthropy, and the Bainum Family Foundation names its second CEO in a year.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Silicon Valley Community Fund Severance and Legal Costs Exceed $1.4 Million, Tax Forms Show
Public documents show the toll of a workplace scandal that led to the ouster of Emmett Carson, the foundation’s CEO, and its top fundraiser, Mari Ellen Loijens.
By MARC GUNTHER
Contributor