May 2, 2017

Charities are stepping up efforts to help their supporters raise money from friends. While the amount of money raised is still relatively small, the tactics help nonprofits expand their web of connections to potential donors.

ProPublica and the Texas Tribune offer practical lessons on building ties with an information-hungry audience.

Facebook and Twitter are important, but the Women’s Marches and other activist campaigns prove that an older form of electronic technology still has power to motivate followers, says Brian Young of Action Network.

Facebook’s CrowdTangle tracks the performance of all an organization’s social-media accounts, and savvy nonprofits can use the data to boost fundraising.

Connecting donors and beneficiaries online helps charities reach more people in need while forging stronger bonds with their supporters, says Katie Bisbee of DonorsChoose.org.

Trustee rosters at major grant makers sorely lack socioeconomic and geographic diversity, a Chronicle analysis shows. What does that mean for philanthropy?

At the 20 wealthiest national foundations, which control $162 billion in assets, plenty of board members have degrees from top private universities, but only a handful live in rural or poor parts of the United States.

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders railed against the power of an entrenched leadership class. They didn’t target philanthropy, but they could have, based on our first-of-its-kind analysis of major grant makers’ boards.

A Chronicle review of trustees at 20 major U.S. grant makers suggests considerable work lies ahead.

Foundation leader Farhad Ebrahimi is using his inherited wealth to bring the fight over climate change into the social-justice movement.

People gave more often and in larger amounts when door-to-door fundraisers said they were being paid, according to new research.

Steve Tisch, whose film credits include Forrest Gump and Risky Business, learned his philanthropy from wealthy parents who stressed that the family’s status carried great responsibility to help others.

An enterprise of Baltimore charity Humanim, Details Deconstruction provides job skills and fair wages for people with histories of incarceration, addiction, and other problems and generates revenue for the parent organization’s programs.

Encouraging scientists to become good storytellers and citizens and financing research on why people ignore facts are critical roles for foundations to play.

The centuries-long impact of racism and decades of neglect by philanthropy call for doubling down on aid to established organizations like the NAACP and new movements like Black Lives Matter.

Rajiv Shah sits down with The Chronicle for a wide-ranging discussion about his plans to focus on a few big bets, strengthen the grant maker’s partnerships, and work with the Trump administration.

When the Gipper planned to slash spending, he made a philosophical argument about the role of philanthropy. Unlike President Trump.

Donors need freedom to support organizations that promote civic equality and challenge the status quo.

Ideas42 draws on cutting-edge research to help people make smarter choices in health, housing ... and now philanthropy.

Maya Winkelstein of the Open Road Alliance is on a mission to get foundations to talk with grantees about project pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Tips for ensuring donors fulfill their gift commitments — and what to do if they don’t.

Experts see this as one of the most basic kinds of advocacy. Here’s how to get started.