Dec. 5, 2017

Interview

When School Becomes a Refuge

By Nicole Wallace

Raised homeless and without his parents, the Nord Family Foundation’s Anthony Richardson is focused on education in Ohio.

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Tackling Inequality With an Entrepreneur’s Eye

By Nicole Wallace

Propeller co-founder Andrea Chen helps nonprofits and small ventures grow and take on tough problems.

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William & Mary Aims to Democratize Its Campaign

By Nicole Wallace

Under the prodding of a young development chief, the university targets small gifts, not just big donors.

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Open Your Tent for Supporters Wide, Says Leader of Progressive Group

By Nicole Wallace

Groundswell Fund’s Vanessa Daniel believes donors will respond when reproductive rights are linked with other progressive issues.

Tyler Norman, age 10, prepares her violin for a rehearsal at InterSchool Orchestras of New York’s ISO Day, where students participate in extended rehearsals and sections, as well as social activities. Tyler is a member of ISO’s Morningside Orchestra.

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A Youth Music Program Brings Together Kids From All Walks of Life

By Drew Lindsay

The 45-year-old InterSchool Orchestras of New York nurtures friendships and a love of music.

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A First-Generation College Grad Helps Others Get Their Degrees

By Nicole Wallace

Dartmouth alumna Alexandra Bernadotte builds support networks for students who might struggle with academics or campus life.

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Pressing Foundations to Fight Opioid Abuse

By Nicole Wallace

Claire Fiddian-Green of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation is rallying fellow grant makers to tackle the epidemic.

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How One Group Crafts Data-Smart Solutions on Land Use

By Nicole Wallace

Ray Rasker and Headwaters Economics are finding answers on issues that often polarize communities.

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Ending Poverty, One Family at a Time

By Nicole Wallace

Heather Reynolds and Catholic Charities Fort Worth have built an innovative approach that’s showing solid results.

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Leader Moving From a Small Charity to a Big Foundation Finds a New Voice

By Nicole Wallace

Taking over the Denver Foundation after leading a small nonprofit, Christine Marquez-Hudson had to change her style.

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Building Bridges Across Faiths

By Nicole Wallace

Raised by a Muslim father and Methodist mother, Aziza Hasan now helps people of Jewish and Islamic faith find common ground.

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A Very Personal Fight on Mental Health

By Nicole Wallace

Matt Kuntz of the National Alliance on Mental Illness talks openly about how depression almost led him to take his life.

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After 16 Years in Prison, a Massachusetts Man Helps Others Rebuild

By Nicole Wallace

Many of the kids who come to YouthBuild have a criminal record. CEO John Valverde can relate.

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Winning the Fight to Bring Justice to the Jailhouse

By Nicole Wallace

Alec Karakatsanis has filed a barrage of lawsuits to reform a cash-bail system he says discriminates against the poor. And he’s winning.

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How New Forms of Philanthropy Are Squeezing Traditional Charities

By Alex Daniels and Rebecca Koenig

Donors and foundations look to alternative legal structures and for-profit investments to effect change, with big implications for grant-supported nonprofits.

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Donor States of America

By Drew Lindsay

A study by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy draws on a survey of 9,000 U.S. households and offers insights into the 21st-century American donor.

Illustration showing a man shouting into a megaphone that has a pattern of vines and ripe fruit on it.

Opinion

Opinion: Fight Hunger by Fighting Poverty

By Andrew Fisher

Handing out groceries isn’t all charities should do; they must advocate for policies that provide health care, good wages, and policies that mean nobody needs donated food.

Vietnam’s need for motorcycle helmets that worked in a tropical climate and that fit the typical Vietnamese rider led to the development of a better product. A related campaign in support of a mandatory helmet law put the poor at the center of the issue.

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5 Key Ingredients for Donors Seeking Audacious Changes

By Susan Wolf Ditkoff, Phil Dearing, Andrew Flamang, and Abe Grindle

Emotionally appealing milestones and a willingness to work on a grand scale and make course corrections are critical, yet too few donors understand that and are frustrated by setbacks.

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Cash in Donor-Advised Funds Take Years to Trickle Out to Charity, Study Finds

By Alex Daniels

The report also raises concerns about whether the funds are sometimes used as a tool for tax avoidance with no net benefit to the public good.

Kenn Ricci, the principal of Directional Aviation Capital, and his wife, Pamela, are big donors to the University of Notre Dame.

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A Family That Doesn’t Shy Away From Big, Complex Gifts

By Maria Di Mento

Kenn and Pamela Ricci’s $100 million pledge to the University of Notre Dame in October made news not just for its size but also for how it intertwines the donors’ family with the benefactor.