September 2019

Meager salaries limit who can take nonprofit jobs — and who can afford to stay. That can hurt your mission and your bottom line, both now and down the road. Some organizations are figuring out ways to pay more.

Hiring managers, consultants, and nonprofit employees share their tips and advice.

The Red Hook Initiative believes residents are best equipped to solve neighborhood problems. So the nonprofit has a set of programs to help employees move up the ladder.

An idea that came up at a happy hour earlier this year prompted an informal information-gathering project that has drawn a worldwide response.

Fundraisers are stepping up efforts to let older donors know they can give tax-free from their retirement accounts. But the mechanics of making the gifts can be complicated.

People of color are doing better compared with a decade ago, but they are still severely underrepresented compared with the national population. Women have made barely perceptible advances.

The Microsoft alums are major donors who are building a brain trust of the best minds in philanthropy to understand how race undergirds big problems like homelessness and educational disparities.

In a loft space in downtown Seattle, Giving Tech Labs technologists who cut their teeth at Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo devise ways cloud computing and artificial intelligence can better serve charities.

Also, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation names a new CEO, and Vic Fuentes, lead singer of the rock band Pierce the Veil, will lead a charity for seriously ill children.

Senior editor Eden Stiffman wants to help fundraisers navigate the complexities of a changing landscape and learn from the wisdom of their development peers.

OneSight builds eye-examination centers and is expanding into new areas including Rwanda and Brazil.

María Carla Chicuén wants to make CasaCuba, at Florida International University, a repository for Cuban heritage and a hub for Miami’s vibrant Cuban-American community.

The company gives each worker a budget to support nonprofits. It has limited its marketing budget in favor of giving more away to good causes.

Data shapes fundraising strategies and performance evaluations at the University of Iowa.

Require all foundations to give at least 7 percent a year — and extend that mandate to donor-advised funds. Otherwise money just ends up going to big nonprofits that don’t need the help nearly as much as grassroots and advocacy causes.

A year after Anand Giridharadas published his book, it’s clear that philanthropy will only be as effective as the people involved. And they will have to be the kind of people who love to think about how power flows through systems, or gets stopped up.

Businesses contribute to many of America’s most challenging problems, including economic inequality, climate change, the opioid epidemic, and gun violence, to name just a few. That’s why foundation support for employee activism, investor pressure tactics, lawsuits, and much more is essential.

It’s not just poor management at nonprofits that puts development professionals under pressure but mistreatment and power plays by grant makers.