April 2, 2019

Fundraising drives are proliferating and going on even longer than before. Here’s why that’s happening — and what’s next.

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.

Even donors who give to endowments want to know their money will be put to good use someday.

Organizations that need an army of fundraisers find that having their own operations devoted to finding and managing talent give them an edge.

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.

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.

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.

In other news about people in philanthropy, leaders exit the Southern Poverty Law Center amid news reports about harassment and unfair treatment of staff.

Started by a former Peace Corps volunteer, the group aims to operate in every African nation within a decade.

Test subjects responded more generously to a single appeal with donation requests from eight nonprofits than to eight individual pitches — with one exception.

More and more foundation CEOs are offering their ideas for how philanthropy can do better. A look inside the Chronicle’s opinion section.

When top officials describe shared spending and artistic priorities, donors respond well, say two leaders of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

How a children’s hospital adds 2,000 monthly supporters annually, with 65 percent staying on board from year to year.

Communicating with donors even after they stop giving can help nonprofit leaders improve an organization and its fundraising, a philanthropist advises.

Multiyear general support is essential. So is help paying salaries of talented staff members.

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.

More than 30 foundations pledge to speak out against the vicious abuses such people face and to provide support for a burgeoning activist movement.

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.