How a Year of Funding Whiplash Reshaped the Nonprofit Work Force
Hiring plans collapsed, layoffs surged, and applications soared as funding disruptions hit nonprofits in 2025. The result is a more competitive, less stable job market that’s likely to persist this year.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Leaders Face Disruption With Resilience and Resolve, Poll Finds
A survey takes the pulse of nonprofit and foundation leaders, including their outlook for the future.
By George Anders
Contributor
Budget Cuts Are an Opportunity — Not a Catastrophe
Tough financial decisions can help nonprofits sharpen their missions and build trust with funders. That’s why I embrace them.
By Drew Martin
Contributor
Short-term advances can keep charities afloat till a grant comes through. Will foundations subsidize them?
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
CFO as Storyteller: A Powerful Voice for Your Future
Chief financial officers must go beyond spreadsheets and offer the strategic clarity your nonprofit needs to chart a sustainable course.
By Jennifer Hahn
Contributor
Stop Treating Impact Investing as a Side Hustle
To ensure endowment investments routinely align with mission, foundations need to tear down the wall between CEOs and CIOs.
By Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor
Tools for Times of Budget Cuts and Belt Tightening
A collection of case studies, fundraising advice, and other resources for managing nonprofit finances in tough times.
How ‘Promote Giving’ Will Raise Millions for Charities
A new line of investment funds donates at least 5 percent of its performance fee, also known as the “promote,” to charities.
By Glenn Gamboa
AP Business Writer
America’s Favorite Charities 2021
See our full ranking with data profiles of the nonprofits that earn the most support from individual Americans, private foundations, and corporate philanthropies.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
The 100 Groups That Raise the Most Cash
See our full ranking with data profiles of the nonprofits that earn the most support from individual Americans, private foundations, and corporate philanthropies.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Mergers Have Become a Lifeline for Nonprofits. Will Foundations Help Cover the Costs?
Charities are looking for strategic partners to survive a rough 2025, and they hope foundations — which have long pushed for consolidation — will help pay for the mergers.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
How Well Do You Know the New Tax Law? A News Quiz
What will change for big donors, corporate giving, charities? Test how much you know.
Trump Wants to Axe an Affordable Housing Grant That’s a Lifeline for Many Rural Communities
Experts and state housing agencies say that would set back tens of thousands of future affordable housing developments nationwide, particularly hurting Appalachian towns and rural counties where government aid is sparse and investors are few.
Could a $5-a-Year Campaign Replace Federal Funding?
One leader’s idea to bring new funding to the arts and why it could be a model for other fields facing government cuts.
By Brett Egan
Contributor
With Federal Funding Slashed, This Nonprofit Aims to Reinvent Itself
About half of Jumpstart’s funding came from AmeriCorps, support the Trump administration recently cut.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
To Protect Grantees, Invest Conservatively: A Financial Strategy to Buck the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
A proposed new tax on foundation earnings should push foundations to align endowment investments with mission — and help grantees survive.
By Clara Miller and David Morse