Dec. 1, 2020

Charities will see an about-face on many issues, but with a divided Congress, they may need to adjust their strategies. Here’s what to expect.

Relief groups are hoping for more tranquility under a Biden administration after years of fighting off budget cuts from the Trump administration. See more ways the Biden-Harris administration will affect the nonprofit world.

The new administration is expected to undo changes that limited access to abortion at taxpayer-funded clinics and that promoted short-term health-care plans that don’t cover pre-existing conditions.

Groups that focus on racial justice, overhauling the criminal-justice system, and closing the racial wealth gap are hoping to make progress. See more ways the Biden-Harris administration will affect the nonprofit world.

Immigrants-rights groups hope the new administration will get the immigration system back to where it was before President Trump slashed refugee admissions and ended many protections for asylum seekers and “Dreamers.” See more ways the Biden-Harris administration will affect the nonprofit world.

The president-elect has joined with others in calling for a temporary 15 percent increase in SNAP benefits during the Covid-19 crisis, and he wants low-income families to get an extra $100 a month in nutritional support. See more ways the Biden-Harris administration will affect the nonprofit world.

After four years playing defense, leaders fighting climate change have a friend in the White House. That’s no reason for foundations to dial back their efforts on the issue, advocates say.

So far this year, rich donors have given at least $208.3 million to such efforts. The number of large gifts far exceeds previous years.

Conservative and liberal foundations are putting money into a cadre of nonprofits working to help Americans find common ground on political and public policy matters.

In this week’s edition of Ask an Expert, we answer reader questions about how to stay in touch with major donors in meaningful ways and how to ask for gifts at a time when traditional face-to-face fundraising practices have been upended.

Accurately recording donors’ names and identities is vital to effective fundraising and strong donor relations.

A community activist hopes colorful murals will help bring visitors back to Chinatown’s struggling restaurants and stores.

Millennial and Generation X philanthropists advocate a humbler approach to giving that listens to people in need and the nonprofits that serve them.

The demise of local news organizations is sabotaging nearly every mission foundations and donors care about. Foundations can lead the way in ensuring businesses, government, and small donors contribute to the reinvention of the news industry so it truly serves our democracy.

The new presidential administration will be much more open to the progressive goals shared by much of the philanthropic world. One of those goals should be eliminating its own democratic deficiencies, says the author of a major new book on philanthropy.