Daily News Roundup: ‘Forbes’ Ranking Lists Buffett as Biggest 2015 Benefactor
Also in other media, Slate compares the fundraising and advocacy tactics — and differing levels of success — of the early-20th-century fight against tuberculosis and today’s pink-hued breast-cancer campaigning.
Podcast: Tailoring Your Fundraising to Reach Generation X
Dara Royer, head of development and marketing for Mercy Corps, explains how the aid charity is targeting the more than 60 million Americans born from 1965 to 1980.
By TONY MARTIGNETTI
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Coke and Pepsi Fund Scores of Public-Health Groups
Also, a national evangelical nonprofit issues a call for employees who support same-sex marriage to quit, and City College of New York’s leaders steps down amid an inquiry into a campus foundation’s finances.
Daily News Roundup: Koch-Linked Nonprofits Endorsing in Key Senate Races
Also, the private-equity mogul who endowed Harvard’s center for African-American studies gives it $10 million for research on inequality in Boston.
Daily News Roundup: 32-Year Juilliard Leader Stepping Down
Also, Doctors Without Borders re-creates the refugee experience in Washington, and Michelle Obama gets corporate support to maintain the White House vegetable garden.
5 Steps to Building Better Technology at Your Nonprofit
Think of technology as a long-term investment, leaders of tech-savvy nonprofits recommend — one that requires in-house talent and continual feedback to pay off.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
Commander-in-Chief to Activist-in-Chief
After leaving the White House, Michelle and Barack Obama are expected to step up as powerhouse nonprofit advocates and fundraisers.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Charities Hope First Lady’s Work on Obesity Is Just the Beginning
Nonprofit leaders say the first lady has used her bully pulpit to bring unprecedented attention to childhood obesity and foster public-private partnerships to tackle the issue — work that will outlive her time in the East Wing.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
From Anti-Graffiti to Pro-Art: Murals as Engines for Good
An effort to fight graffiti has grown into an enormous public art program that backers see as an engine for education, community empowerment, and economic revitalization.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Why We Should Urge the Next President to Create an Office for Nonprofits
Nobody in the federal government looks out for the ways nonprofits could do more for society — or how their work could be hindered by new policies.
By Alan J. Abramson
Contributor
Leader of National-Service Program Has a Hunger for Results
Curt Ellis helped start FoodCorps, a nonprofit whose AmeriCorps program teaches kids about healthy food and nutrition through hands-on activities like gardening and cooking.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
5 Crucial Skills for Nonprofit Product Managers
Managing technology products is difficult, but those who do it say the job comes down to a handful of key attributes and abilities.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Embattled Leader Keeps Hold on Bay Area Museums
Also, patient-advocacy charities lay low in the debate over rising drug prices, and a data company pledges $100 million in software to nonprofits and schools.
Daily News Roundup: $37 Million Tex. Haul Raises Giving-Day Bar
Also, Yale University bucks the 2016 trend of college-endowment losses, and new census data shows the first significant drop in U.S. proverty since the Great Recession.
Religious Charities Commit $52 Million to Help Elderly Jews
The money will be used to provide food and medicine to people, including Holocaust survivors, living in the former Soviet Union.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Leader Tiffany Gueye: How an Education Charity Rigorously Measures Results
In this video interview, Chronicle reporter Eden Stiffman talks to Tiffany Gueye, CEO of Building Educated Leaders for Life, about the group’s participation in randomized, controlled studies and its partnership with the YMCA.
By Eden Stiffman and Nidhi Singh