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News
Data and the Search for Big Donors
How fundraisers crunch numbers, sift Facebook chatter, and analyze their results to learn exactly what donors want. -
News
The Future of Fundraising and Data Analytics: Two Ideas
Ideas that analysts noodle around with today could become the cutting-edge approaches of tomorrow. Here are two still largely on the drawing board. -
News
Fundraising Lessons From Stanford’s $12 Billion Man
Outgoing Stanford President John Hennessy raised billions for the university by steering clear of talking about goals in dollar terms and communicating clearly what a gift would accomplish. -
News
Nonprofit Connects African Moms to Prevent HIV in Newborns
Mothers2mothers employs HIV-positive women as mentors to coach others on how to give birth to healthy babies. The transmission rate for program participants has dropped to less than 5 percent. -
News
Fewer Facebook Friends Is Better for Fundraising, Study Shows
People sometimes give more to benefit the fundraiser than the charity, which has surprising implications for how to use social media to do good. -
News
Puzzling Fundraiser Job Titles Proliferate as Field Evolves
From “chief progress officer” to “director of e-philanthropy,” nonprofits say they are trying to better reflect the heart of the job. Are they sowing confusion instead? -
Opinion
Opinion: Want Social Change, Donors? Help Fix Democracy
Far less than 1 percent of all grants go to groups working to reduce the influence of money in politics and preserve the integrity of self-government. -
Opinion
Opinion: It’s Time for a Strategy on Rural Philanthropy, Not Just Shaming
Climate change, inequality, jobs, and many other issues foundations care about require more attention outside the cities where so many grant makers focus their work. -
Opinion
Opinion: New Overtime Rules Are Good for Nonprofits — and Good for America
It’s hypocritical for organizations committed to social justice to complain about paying workers decent wages. -
News
Lottery Winners Pour Millions Into Nonprofits, Make Diversity a Priority
Marvin and Mae Acosta, who pledged some of their $328 million in Powerball winnings to charity, may want to give Alcario and Carmen Castellano a call for advice. They hit the jackpot 15 years ago, and dozens of San Jose area charities ended up as winners, too. -
Opinion
Opinion: How Philanthropy Can Show That Black Lives Matter
Foundations could reduce the heartbreaking violence of recent weeks by helping cash-strapped cities so there’s no reason for them to ask cops to raise revenue by targeting people of color for fine- and fee-producing minor offenses. -
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Flouting Taboo, Nonprofit Leaders Open Up About Failures
In a world where politeness reigns, some argue there is value in sharing painful professional experiences. -
Advice
How an Advocacy Group Takes an All-Hands-on-Deck Approach to Big Donors
More than 60 staff members, trustees, and volunteers at Jewish Voice for Peace manage about 600 major-donor relationships in addition to other roles they play at the organization. -
Advice
How Fundraisers Can Deal With Donors Who Have a Different Worldview
What to do when a donor wants to talk politics — or uses old-fashioned terms that make you cringe. -
Advice
What to Do When Donor Values Clash With Your Mission
Your nonprofit wants to be inclusive. Your donors don’t. Can your relationship be saved? -
News
Foundations Show Signs of Rejecting ‘Overhead Myth’
New efforts aim to identify charity’s “true costs” and invest in the financial health of nonprofits.