Feb. 28, 2018

In fundraising pitches for environmental causes, men are turned off by “feminine” words and images, while women show no bias against male-oriented themes, according to a new study.

MacArthur “genius” award winner Greg Asbed has spent years picking watermelons, making farm-labor wages — and persuading major corporations and foundations to fight abuse of field workers

Grant makers and the environmental nonprofits they support have failed to build a robust, broad-based political movement for climate action, even though their critics have urged them to do so for years, says Marc Gunther, a journalist who writes about business and sustainability.

Boards play a key role in changing the culture at a moment when we can expect more revelations of problems like those at the Red Cross and Humane Society of the United States.

Urban Alliance CEO Eshauna Smith works to make sure low-income high-school students, many of them minorities, get opportunities like the one she had.

Measuring the economic impact of giving is tricky, but if more donors were concerned about it, they’d probably give very differently than they do now, experts say.

We break down our ranking by geography, age, and source of wealth and examine big-donor giving going back to 2000.

Only 17 people on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans appear on this year’s Philanthropy 50 list.

New Jersey Community Capital buys pools of troubled mortgages at a discount and then modifies the loans to help homeowners. Vacant properties or converted to affordable housing.

Donors made at least 15 contributions of $1 million or more last year — no strings attached.

Tech billionaires led the Philanthropy 50, the Chronicle’s annual ranking of the top donors, even as worries over income inequality grow.

Lessons from charities that raise $1 million or more through partnerships with retailers.

A message from a business partner spoke to a personal story in the Amazon founder’s family history.

Cast aside assumptions and stereotypes, but don’t ignore a donor’s cultural background.

Organizations working on health, homelessness, juvenile justice, and other social issues need to understand how sexual abuse connects to their mission and how they can help survivors.