September 27, 2016
Clients of the donor-advised-fund provider directed more than half of their grant making to causes in their home states in fiscal year 2016, according to new data on their giving.
September 27, 2016
Also, Yale University bucks the 2016 trend of college-endowment losses, and new census data shows the first significant drop in U.S. proverty since the Great Recession.
September 27, 2016
Jamie Smith had served as co-interim leader of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network since January. Her top priorities include fundraising and managing growth.
September 26, 2016
By focusing on the best minds and seeking lots of advice, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are reminding donors of the power of basic science — and smart philanthropy.
Special Report
September 06, 2016
Fundraisers focused on harnessing the baby boomers' wealth and millennials' energy risk missing out on the giving potential of the demographic cohort in between.
September 26, 2016
Other notable gifts include $66 million from a University of Vermont-trained physician to endow his alma mater’s medical school.
September 26, 2016
The money will be used to provide food and medicine to people, including Holocaust survivors, living in the former Soviet Union.
September 26, 2016
Plus, more on the Zuckerberg-Chan pledge to fund disease-eradicating research and a controversial Bay Area socialite's refusal to give up a leadership role at one of the region's premier cultural institutions.
September 26, 2016
Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg trial lawyer, donated $1 million to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to use the law to prevent mass killings. He plans to continue giving that amount annually for up to 10 years.
September 23, 2016
Only 30 percent of respondents in a study by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management said they met frequently with current or potential donors, and only 55 percent said they sometimes did.
September 23, 2016
In this video interview, Chronicle reporter Eden Stiffman talks to Tiffany Gueye, former CEO of Building Educated Leaders for Life, about the group’s participation in randomized controlled studies and its partnership with the YMCA.
