June 1, 2016

Tool Kit

Appealing to Women Donors

Research shows that women, whether wealthy or not, outpace men when it comes to charitable giving. We’ve collected here some of our best information on female donors.

IN HER NAME: United Way of Salt Lake's Zenia Frendt leads the charity's Women's Leadership Council, which paid to open this community center in an apartment complex that's home to many refugees. The center features a painting of its namesake, Hser Ner Moo, a Burmese girl murdered in the complex.

News

Women Primed to Give Big — if Nonprofits Are Willing to Change

By Megan O’Neil

Women have the wealth and ambition to be a major force in philanthropy, but charities have to recognize and respond to big changes in the demographics of donors.

News

Women to Watch

By Maria Di Mento

Here are some of the philanthropists putting their wealth, names, and smarts to work for good.

Tool Kit

How Much America’s Biggest Companies Give to Charity: an Exclusive Chronicle Study

A Chronicle survey of America’s biggest companies found that donations grew 2 percent in 2015 compared with the previous year. Meanwhile, companies are increasingly integrating philanthropy throughout their business operations.

JOB TRAINING: Symantec created the Cyber Career Connection program in 2014 to prepare women and minorities for jobs in cybersecurity, a field lacking in qualified candidates. The company helps nonprofits like Year Up, clients of which are shown here, place trainees in those positions.

Opinion

Businesses Reorient Giving to Mesh With Core Operations

By Alex Daniels and Peter Olsen-Phillips

Companies such as Walmart and Citigroup are increasingly putting the entire heft of their organizations, not just the check-writing functions of their foundations, behind efforts to solve social problems.

News

Cash Giving From Businesses Edges Up, Chronicle Survey Shows

By Alex Daniels and Peter Olsen-Phillips

Gilead Sciences, Walmart, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and ExxonMobil led the way, reflecting a strong presence throughout the list of financial institutions and drug companies.

JOB INSURANCE: State Farm and Enterprise Community Partners support Westside Works, which helps people build job skills and acquire certifications.

News

How Nonprofits Can Strike a Deal With Corporate Partners

By Alex Daniels

Kellogg’s and State Farm provide insights into what charities need to do to land deep-pocketed sponsors in the business world.

TECH START-UP: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes part in the Hour of Code, which introduces students to programming and computer science.

News

Why Companies Give to Nonprofits

By Alex Daniels

Executives with Microsoft, Citi, PNC, and Walmart explain how and why specific nonprofits were chosen to receive millions of dollars in support.

REACHING OUT: Nicholas Kristof interviews villagers in the rebel-held Nuba Mountains of Sudan last year.

News

New York Times Columnist Unlocks Millions in Giving

By Marc Gunther

Nicholas Kristof has inspired his readers to shower donations on good Samaritans who previously toiled in obscurity, but not all of his subjects turn out to be praiseworthy.

David Guizar visits his mother, Maria Guzman, who holds a picture of her slain son Oscar. On the wall behind them is a picture of another of Ms. Guzman's sons, Gilbert, who was also murdered.

News

Crime Victims Get a Voice in Prison Overhaul

By Rebecca Koenig

Californians for Safety and Justice, which advocates for trauma centers for victims and changes in sentencing, is expanding nationally.

FISCAL EDUCATION: Ariel Investments founder and University of Chicago donor John Rogers Jr. focuses his giving on spreading financial literacy and building a stronger minority business community in his hometown.

News

For a Chicago Businessman, Philanthropy Is a Team Sport

By Nicole Lewis

A love of basketball helped lead John Rogers Jr. into the game of philanthropy. Now one the nation’s most admired money managers, he hopes to spread the wealth to kids struggling to achieve the American dream.

The Rockefeller Foundation and other grant makers are working to advance Bus Rapid Transit in hopes of reducing emissions and link people to better economic opportunities.

Opinion

Opinion: Fighting Global Climate Change Requires Foundations to Give Local

By James Canales and Kate Wolford

Grant makers can make a big difference on an immense planetary problem by fostering collaborative solutions in their home regions.

Mike Goorhouse, who joined the community foundation in his Michigan hometown five years ago as part of a succession plan, has been helping donors understand how the organization uses its unrestricted endowment.

News

A Match for Estate Gifts Helps 30-Year-Old Leader Build Endowment

By Eden Stiffman

Mike Goorhouse began his career in philanthropy at age 18 as a member of his organization’s youth grant-making group.

Pam Scott, left, who has been a marketing consultant to big companies like Nike, is now using her skills to help an international nonprofit work to reduce teenage pregnancy in Tanzania, including getting nurses' views on providing contraceptives to teenage girls.

Opinion

Charity’s Push to Get Women Donors More Actively Involved Yields Big Gifts

By Megan O’Neil

A new Melinda Gates-backed venture taps female philanthropists for their talent as well as their wallets.

A network of foundations and donors spent more than a decade supporting nonprofit activists who laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s ruling in June legalizing same-sex marriage. Such collaboration among grant makers is becoming increasingly important, argues Phil Buchanan of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

Opinion

Opinion: 5 Issues Foundations Must Confront to Stay Relevant

As criticism of philanthropy mounts, grant makers must rethink how to spend their endowments and work with grantees — and with one another.

With bilingual agents and Spanish-language ads, the children’s medical charity has cultivated a growing Latino donor base.

News

Operation Smile Courts Hispanics With Eye on Population Shift

By Timothy Sandoval

With bilingual agents and Spanish-language ads, the children’s medical charity has cultivated a growing Latino donor base.

Advice

How ‘Lean Start-up’ Helped Double Taproot’s Reach in a Year

By Drew Lindsay

The foundation quickly built a website where nonprofits and skilled volunteers find each other.

Advice

What Women (Donors) Want: Cultivation and Stewardship Advice for Fundraisers

By Eden Stiffman

Experts share their tips for inspiring women to give money and time to your cause.