Grant Making Up, Household Giving Will Be Nearly Flat This Year, Projections Say
Fundraisers are urged to focus on grant seeking and bequest fundraising and to invest in seeking donations of all kinds given the outlook for the next two years.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Plus, a youth arts center and five universities received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Introvert or Extrovert: Who Makes a Better Fundraiser?
Mixing personality types can help you raise more money and hold on to staff members too.
Hedge-Fund Leader Gives $120 Million to Create New Data-Science School at U. of Virginia
The gift comes as a growing number of billionaires are making donations aimed at expanding research on artificial intelligence and watching out for growing ethical concerns.
Gates, Skoll, and Others Pool Funds to Give First $80 Million in Grants
The fund supported by some Giving Pledge signers is going toward large-scale international efforts to improve health and education and bring people out of poverty.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
S.D. Human-Service Group Lands $55 Million; Holocaust Museum Gets $2 Million: Gifts Roundup
A new arts center, three universities, and a community college also received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Big Donors Held Back on Giving Stock in December. Here’s What to Expect in 2019.
With the stock market still volatile, donor-advised-fund providers’ year-end fundraising offers a window into the mood of charities’ biggest supporters.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Frugal Social Worker Gives $11 Million, Maltz Jupiter Theatre Gets $5 Million: Gifts Roundup
Also, Baptist Health La Grange gets $2 million, and Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit gets $1 million from the producer of Hamilton.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Effort to Spur Giving From Donor-Advised Funds Online Appears to Stall
A tech tool promoted by Fidelity Charitable and others as a fundraising boon has done relatively little to spur giving, and Fidelity is talking about a “revamp.”
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
To Heal Divisions in This Country, We Need to Redefine Success
Instead of focusing just on the GDP or stock-market indexes, let’s look at income inequality, health care, and economic mobility.
By Brian Gallagher
Contributor
The philanthropists who intrigued us the most in the past year aren’t just those with the big names but those whose giving patterns offer insights that might elicit gifts from others.
By dan.parks
Contributor
How Stock Volatility Could Take a Swipe at Charitable Giving and Grant Making
Nonprofits that depend on the affluent and foundation grants could face some challenges in the year ahead. But experts say it’s not time to panic.
By Julian Wyllie
Contributor
The Woes of the Trump Foundation Are Pervasive Among Big Donors
The grant maker’s closure illustrates the difficulty the IRS has seeing that donors don’t get overly big benefits from their gifts while still giving them incentive to contribute.
By Suzanne Garment and LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Social Worker Leaves Surprise $11 Million to Charities for Children: Daily News Roundup
Several million came from savings and investments and several million more from inheritance. In other articles, the Baltimore archdiocese is changing the name of its fundraising drive to reassure donors the money isn’t going to defray the costs of the sex-abuse scandal; Jeff Bezos has chosen a former Amazon vice president to head his education philanthropic effort; donors can use voice commands to give to charity through Google Assistant; and much more.
Billion-Dollar Gifts by Bezos and Bloomberg Top List of Biggest Donations in 2018
Both contributions sought to help people in need.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
8 Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2019
Donor-advised funds will keep growing rapidly, livestreaming will become a bigger deal, and other changes likely to occur in the coming year.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor