Architects Help Nonprofits Build Their Missions
A new book shows 38 examples of how architects donated their design skills to help charities advance their missions.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Focus on Signature Programs Can Help Charities Gain Grant Makers’ Support
Focusing on collaboration and signature programs can help charities gain grant makers’ support.
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
How a Mississippi Charity Uses Bus Tours to Inform Donors
A closer look at how nonprofit groups can use guided tours as a way to tell their stories to supporters.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
History, Culture, and Justice Among the Stops on a Miss. Donor Trip
A Mississippi legal charity leads an annual bus trip for its supporters through the struggling Delta region, shedding light on the area’s history, its continuing needs, and how they intertwine.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Foundations Offer Operating Support to Help Arts Groups in Tough Times
A new fund provides no-strings-attached grants and consulting help to Atlanta charities.
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Foundations Move to Fill Reporting Gap Left by Shrinking Newsrooms
As newsrooms lose staff members and other resources, foundations are stepping in to fill the gaps in health-care reporting.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Foundation-Financed Office in Liberia Seeks to Build and Guide Philanthropic Efforts
A group of American foundations has financed a government office in Liberia that works to coordinate philanthropic efforts in the African country.
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
New Exchange Seeks to Help Charities Expand
Many nonprofit groups with demonstrated results still struggle to raise money to spread their programs, despite plenty of talk in the philanthropic world over the past decade about focusing dollars on what works. That mixed record has prompted interest in a capital marketplace — not unlike the…
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
How a Generous Donor Decides Where His Money Should Go
When it comes to multimillion-dollar gifts, Ronald O. Perelman, the head of the New York holding company MacAndrews & Forbes, and the chairman of Revlon, says he rarely seeks out charities to which he might like to give. Instead, he waits until a group approaches him with an idea, a need, or a…
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
The idea: As a program analyst at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard Bornstein wondered how to respond to a friend who came to him seeking advice on an education charity to support. Sitting down the hall from Mr. Bornstein were dozens of people with vast knowledge of the question, yet…
By Caroline Preston
Contributor
Map Tracks Grants to Help Charities Cope
An interactive map tracks foundation grants made to help charities deal with fallout from the economic crisis.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Pursuing Operating Support: Tips From Experts
By Elizabeth Schwinn In pursuing operating-support grants, experts say, charities can improve their chances of success ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Back to BasicsTABLE: Grant Makers That Provide the Most Money in Operating-Support Grants by taking the following actions: Focus on results. To persuade a…
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
Back to Basics: Making the Case for Operating Support
More charities are seeking -- and getting -- operating support from foundations
By Elizabeth Schwinn
Contributor
New York Amid old hotels, church missions, a furniture shop, and numerous restaurant-supply stores, the 31-year-old New Museum last month opened a new building on this city’s infamous Bowery street. And unlike anything else in this gritty neighborhood of worn bricks and faded signs, the new New…
By Sam Kean
Contributor