Grant Makers Seek a More Web-Savvy Nonprofit World
Members of NetGain, a partnership aimed at making the Internet work for social justice, have given more than $18 million to the cause in the past year.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Podcast: Mending a Rocky Relationship With a Major Donor
Two experts discuss how to work through disagreements and deliver bad news in this episode of Fundraising Fundamentals.
By TONY MARTIGNETTI
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $10 Million for Minority Girls, Young Women, and Transgender Youths
Other awards include a total of $5 million over three years from the biopharmaceutical company Shire to two groups working to improve the lives of children born with rare diseases.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Want Our Expertise? Pay Us, Grass-Roots Groups Say
Community organizers take a stand against requests to work for free.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Grants Roundup: Kern Family Foundation Awards $6 Million to Olin College of Engineering
Other awards include $1.5 million from the Kresge Foundation for programs at EmcArts that address complex social challenges.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
It’s Not Foundation Money but Culture and Talent That Can Change the World
Studies of social change show that transformational results depend on shared values and expectations among the people doing the work.
By SARA BRENNER and Amy Celep
Gates Fund Makes Foray Into Fighting Poverty in the U.S.
The philanthropy, which focuses most of its U.S. grants on education, is providing $3.7 million to learn what makes the most difference in promoting social mobility in America.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
The $1.6 Billion Barr Foundation Expands Its Reach
The Boston fund will now start making grants nationally to support efforts in arts, education, and climate change.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
NFL Brain-Research Funds Went to League-Linked Scientists
The NFL, which has been grappling with controversy over its handling of concussions and traumatic brain injuries suffered by players, has steered millions of dollars in grants for studies on the issue to researchers with league affiliations, according to an ESPN investigation.
Grant Proposal Rejected? Find Out Why — and How to Get Funded
Volunteers at the Unfunded List can critique proposals that were turned down and help promote the most promising ones.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: $40 Million to Program for Asian Health-Care Workers
Other awards include a $12 million grant from the Rasmuson Foundation to support the expansion of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Podcast: Using Computer Science to Benefit Social Justice
In this episode of Fundraising Fundamentals, a Ford Foundation program officer explains the advantages of having technologists working for social good.
By TONY MARTIGNETTI
Contributor
Another Big Grant Maker Redirects Its Giving Toward Poverty
The Irvine Foundation will end traditional arts, youths and education, and democracy grants to instead focus on ways to aid the working poor by expanding their economic opportunities and advocacy clout.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grants Roundup: $5 Million to Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center
Other awards include $2 million from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation to Say Yes Buffalo to provide college scholarships to graduates of Buffalo, N.Y., public and charter schools.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
What Foundations Want From Grantee Evaluations
An association of small foundations shares grant makers’ opinions on different types of evaluations and tells how to measure the intangible, such as increased hope or confidence.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grants Roundup: Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Awards $5.8 Million to 211 Nonprofits
Other awards include nearly $2.5 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for 19 documentary and interactive digital-media projects.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor