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‘Colliding Crises’ Are Straining Nonprofit Finances
More than a third of respondents in a Nonprofit Finance Fund analysis ended last year with an operating deficit.
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A ‘Precarious Moment’ for Nonprofit Finances
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20,000 Have Lost Nonprofit Jobs. Here Are 6 of Them
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An Antidote to Nonprofit Burnout
Plus, join our July webinar on laying the groundwork for your year-end strategy.
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Explore Our New Podcast on Leading Well
Tune in as Chronicle CEO Stacy Palmer asks innovative nonprofit CEOs to share their proven approaches to working with boards, managing intergenerational staffs, hiring and motivating strong senior teams, and much more. Look for new episodes on Tuesdays. -
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Listen Now: Navigating Leadership Challenges
Drawing from a long career in philanthropy, Barron Segar discusses the important role leaders play as a steady hand during challenging times. -
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Listen Now: How Valerie Jarrett, the Obama Foundation CEO, Builds a Strong Executive Team
Valerie Jarrett, head of the Obama Foundation, shares her tips on identifying the skills your senior team needs, attracting strong candidates, and building cohesion in the C-suite.
Big Philanthropy
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Interactive
America’s Biggest Donors — the 25th Anniversary of Our Annual Philanthropy 50
Search or browse this year’s list of America’s biggest donors and all the past lists going back to 2000. You can sort by name, amount donated, source of wealth, location, and top cause. -
Philanthropy 50
America’s Mega-Donors Stuck to Their Giving Strategies in 2024
The donor backlash and MacKenzie Scott’s no-strings giving didn’t sway the country’s biggest philanthropists. -
Big Philanthropists
Melinda French Gates Is Just Getting Started
Since last spring, when she left the Gates Foundation, she’s written another book and announced a billion dollars in new funding — discovering creative ways to support women and inspiring more of them to give.
Opinion
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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. -
Congress Is Facing a Crisis of Courage. Here’s a Solution Tailor-Made for Philanthropy
To protect democracy, grant makers should fund security details for members of Congress. -
‘Top Chef’s’ Recipe for Making DEI More Palatable
The long-running show offers lessons on how to reframe diversity initiatives so they unite rather than divide.
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Advice
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Tips for Winning 6-Figure Grants in a Competitive Climate
This year, the competition for large foundations’ attention is fierce. Here are key strategies to stand out in a crowded field. -
Feeling Burned Out, Overwhelmed, and Outmatched? This Professor Has Some Advice
Finding community is the “holy grail” to keep going when you’re trying to solve social problems against what seem like impossible odds. Joy is important, too. -
‘We Need to Be Strategic’: How GBH’s Leader Makes Hard Choices After Federal Funding Cuts
Susan Goldberg discusses running a nonprofit in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s attacks on PBS, among other challenges.
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Tips for Winning 6-Figure Grants in a Competitive Climate
This year, the competition for large foundations’ attention is fierce. Here are key strategies to stand out in a crowded field. -
Lambda Legal, a Nonprofit Supporting LGBTQ+ Rights, Exceeded Fundraising Goal by $105 Million
The group is set to hire more attorneys, coordinate pro bono representation from major law firms and hold public trainings about the rights of LGBTQ+ people. -
Attracting Monthly Donors and Keeping Them
Key concepts and advice for establishing or expanding a monthly giving program at your organization.
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The Commons
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Grant Making
As Washington Brawls, Betting on Communities to Fix What’s Broken
National funders back efforts to repair sewage, schools, civic health, and more. Is that a better investment than trying to stop polarization in politics? -
Opinion
Barbara Kingsolver on the Urban-Rural Divide: ‘Ask Rather than Tell.’
A conversation with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author on Appalachia, her own nonprofit work, and how philanthropy can better serve the region. -
Advocacy
Can a Shift From ‘Slacktivism’ Win Over Gen Z?
Nonprofits are giving young Americans meaningful work and the chance to direct the change they want to see happen.
Technology
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Technology
5 Key Findings From Our Nonprofit Technology Survey
The Chronicle of Philanthropy survey reveals a sector at a crossroads, where organizations that can afford to modernize are pulling ahead, while those that can’t fear being left behind. -
Technology
Exclusive Chronicle Survey: Nonprofits’ Tech Dreams and Challenges
Charity leaders are trying to improve their organizations’ use of technology, but they’re running into roadblocks. Chief among them: a lack of money and expertise. -
Technology
Nonprofits Are Turning to AI to Save Time and Money
Organizations are experimenting with ways the technology can craft grant proposals, analyze donor data, improve programs, and more.
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Lurie Family Gives $50 Million to Back Autism Research
Plus, Vassar College received $28 million for its music programs, a Chicago art collector sold her collection to back quantum science, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center got $50 million. -
An Indigenous Leader’s Message for Nonprofits: Focus on Resilience, Endurance
Joshua Arce, head of Partnership for Native Americans, is thinking seven generations behind and ahead to keep his nonprofit on mission. “It’s time to get centered on what you stand for,” he advises. -
Points of Light, Founded by Former President Bush, Aims to Double American Volunteerism by 2035
The group aspires to mobilize people to volunteer with nonprofits in the U.S. at a scale that only federal programs like AmeriCorps have in the past. -
Colgate U. Lands $105 Million for Student Housing Campus
Plus, the widow of the founder of Cintas gave the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra $60 million, and the Heinz History Center and two universities received big gifts. -
‘NGOs Gone Wild’: House Republicans Target Nonprofits in Hearing
Republican lawmakers alleged a “money laundering” scheme funneling taxpayer dollars to Democratic officials. Democrats claimed the Trump administration is “weaponizing the federal government” to chill nonprofit activity and speech. -
Can Trump Strip Harvard of Its Charitable Status? Scholars of Nonprofit Law and Accounting Describe the Obstacles in His Way
Two experts explain what it would take for the federal government to revoke a university’s tax-exempt status.
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