Cover Story
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Fundraising
Campaigns Get Bigger and Bolder
Fundraising drives are proliferating and going on even longer than before. Here’s why that’s happening — and what’s next.
Highlights
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Fundraising
The Benefits of a ‘Blended’ Campaign
The tally includes revenue from sources not usually counted, such as government grants and contracts. Donors like these drives because the combined money fuels greater results. -
Fundraising
It’s Almost a Requirement Now to Tell Donors the Impact of Their Gifts
Even donors who give to endowments want to know their money will be put to good use someday. -
Fundraising
How to Hire Fundraisers With the Help of In-House Recruiters
Organizations that need an army of fundraisers find that having their own operations devoted to finding and managing talent give them an edge.
Features
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Foundation Giving
Group Wants Foundations to Cede Power, and Eventually Make Reparations, to Grantees
Justice Funders wants to weaken top-down decision-making at foundations and expand the scope of grantee influence. The group already has a big footprint in California and hopes its ideas catch fire nationwide. -
Leadership
Finding Time to Measure Impact While Throwing a Lifeline to the World
The International Rescue Committee helps tens of millions of refugees from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Its leader, David Miliband, says the relentless increase in demand for the charity’s services requires a hard look at what works and what doesn’t. -
Major Gifts
How One Family Passed On a Tradition of Giving Through Multiple Generations
One of them worked as a counselor. Another worked as a teacher in low-income communities. Here’s how heirs to the Procter & Gamble fortune nurtured a culture of philanthropy for more than a century.
Departments
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News
MacArthur Foundation Appoints Prep School Leader as CEO (Transitions)
In other news about people in philanthropy, leaders exit the Southern Poverty Law Center amid news reports about harassment and unfair treatment of staff. -
Face of Philanthropy
CorpsAfrica Gives Locals a Chance to Help Others in Their Own Country
Started by a former Peace Corps volunteer, the group aims to operate in every African nation within a decade. -
Research
Donors Give More to Joint Fundraising Appeals, Study Suggests
Test subjects responded more generously to a single appeal with donation requests from eight nonprofits than to eight individual pitches — with one exception. -
Opinion
Editor’s Notebook: Foundation Leaders Get Out Their Megaphones
More and more foundation CEOs are offering their ideas for how philanthropy can do better. A look inside the Chronicle’s opinion section. -
Advice
How Leaders of an Arts Group Tag-Team Donor Meetings
When top officials describe shared spending and artistic priorities, donors respond well, say two leaders of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. -
Advice
A Charity Boosts Monthly Giving With Phone and Door-to-Door Appeals
How a children’s hospital adds 2,000 monthly supporters annually, with 65 percent staying on board from year to year. -
Advice
You Should Ask for an ‘Exit Interview’ When a Donor Stops Giving: Here’s How to Do It
Communicating with donors even after they stop giving can help nonprofit leaders improve an organization and its fundraising, a philanthropist advises.
Opinion
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Opinion
How Grant Makers Can Help Small, Local Nonprofits Thrive (Opinion)
Multiyear general support is essential. So is help paying salaries of talented staff members. -
Opinion
No Equity Without Everyone: Philanthropy Must Fully Include People With Disabilities (Opinion)
Fifteen grant makers are providing $10 million in a push to make sure foundations are hiring and getting advice from people with physical, mental, and other disabilities. -
Opinion
Why Philanthropy Must Do More to Help Transgender People (Opinion)
More than 30 foundations pledge to speak out against the vicious abuses such people face and to provide support for a burgeoning activist movement. -
Letters to the Editor
Let’s Rethink Pedigrees in Philanthropy; Plus, a Look at Arguments Against Impact Investing (Letters to the Editor)
Cynthia Gibson, a strategy consultant, says the debate over the MacArthur Foundation’s new CEO is part of an overdue discussion about what credentials make a difference in philanthropic leadership. Plus, Doug Stewart, head of the M&M Fisher Foundation, rebuts Hewlett’s Larry Kramer on impact investing.