Podcast: RippleWorks Helps Social Ventures Scale Up with Tech
The Silicon Valley nonprofit launched by cryptocurrency company Ripple pairs volunteers with start-up experience and expertise with social entrepreneurs tackling the challenges of rapid growth.
Mark Independence Day by Bolstering America’s Nonprofit Innovators
The government and donors should support efforts by charities to design and test solutions, then look to state and federal agencies to spread approaches that work.
By David M. Schizer
Contributor
Cleveland Foundation CEO on Being Mindful of Gentrification While Bringing Economic Development
The Cleveland Foundation’s Ronn Richard says the fund stays current by picking cutting-edge, risky investments that aim to bring a renaissance to the Ohio city.
By Ariella Phillips
Contributor
Podcast: 6 Steps to Social Movements That Change Hearts and Minds
It’s at the grass roots where monumental change begins to take shape, says Leslie Crutchfield of Georgetown University.
Daily News Roundup: Judge Urges Trump to Settle Foundation Lawsuit
The judge said the president’s nonprofit should try to reach an agreement with the New York attorney general to dissolve. In other articles, the Templeton Prize this year is going to the King of Jordan for promoting cooperation among Muslims with different traditions; the San Diego Foundation has dismissed its CEO; a $25 million donation will go toward creating artificial intelligence to treat heart disease; and much more on immigration and arts and culture and politics, government, and nonprofits.
Daily News Roundup: Billionaires Make Up for Harvard’s Poor Investment Returns
By lagging average investment returns of the Ivy League, the university missed out on $6 billion in investment gains, but it raised more than $9 billion in its latest fundraising drive. In other articles, a $40 million effort to improve nutrition science is nearly out of money; a look at how Sesame Street helps traumatized children; states and communities are fighting to halt sex abuse of people with intellectual disabilities; and much more about giving and poverty and opioid addiction.
The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging that four times Trump signed the grant maker’s tax returns that stated incorrectly his businesses hadn’t benefited from its money. In other articles, the University of Southern Maine got a gift of maps worth $100 million; an interview with the couple who have raised $19 million on Facebook for migrant children; and much more about immigrants and the nonprofits housing the children. Plus, more news about endowments and think tanks and giving.
Daily News Roundup: Millions Given for Migrant Legal Aid
A Texas nonprofit is using the money, in part, to help parents contact their children by phone. In other articles, Facebook and crowdsourcing have helped fuel fundraising for migrants; in the months before its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, the Trump administration awarded contracts and grants to nonprofits and business to run facilities housing migrant children; and other articles about Trump’s federal-agency overhaul plan and much more news.
Podcast: Effort to Prevent Suicide and Improve Mental Health Takes a ‘Whole-Person’ Approach
Following recent high-profile suicides, Well Being Trust’s CEO Tyler Norris says it’s more important than ever to remove the stigma from mental-health conversations.
Rockefeller President Cleared After Review Triggered by Employee Complaint
Wide-ranging allegations against Rajiv Shah, including steering money to friends, were found to be “without factual basis or merit,” says board chairman Richard Parsons.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Donors Give Millions to Separated Migrant Families
Hundreds of thousands of people are giving to nonprofits to help families being separated at the U.S.-Mexican border, including to a record-breaking Facebook campaign that has brought in $12 million so far. Also, a look inside the nonprofits and companies that house the children. In other articles, the Trump administration is taking aim at safety-net programs as it eyes government reorganization; and much more about big philanthropy and other nonprofit news.
Daily News Roundup: Outrage Over Family Separations Prompts Protests by Advocay Groups
Rallies are planned in 132 cities on June 30 to protest the Trump administration’s policy of detaining immigrant children apart from their parents. In other articles, one Texas nonprofit reaped $450 million to house detained children in a former Walmart store; the CEO of a nonprofit shelter for detained immigrant children — and who called police on a Democratic senator when he tried to enter the building — is paid $770,000; and much more about big philanthropy and other news.
By No User
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Zuckerberg and Sandberg Give to Unite Immigrant Families
The pair gave to an online drive by former Facebook employees raising money for a Texas nonprofit. In other articles, a look at what would happen if university endowments invested only in funds with diverse hiring practices; how the Koch brothers are fighting public-transit plans; and more about big philanthropy and other news.
Podcast: How Oxfam America Takes on ‘Structural Issues That Keep People Poor’
CEO Abby Maxman discusses Oxfam’s top-to-bottom response to allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its workers in Haiti and the charity’s continued focus on “structural issues that keep people poor.”
How to Get More Volunteers Involved in Your Next Advocacy Campaign
Mobilisation Lab, a nonprofit spinoff of Greenpeace that helps organizations encourage supporters to take action on behalf of a cause, poses questions that can help charities share control.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
A Group Born at Greenpeace Spreads Ideas About Grass-Roots Advocacy
Mobilisation Lab works with charities around the world to put control over campaigns in the hands of more supporters.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor