March 1, 2021

A year into the pandemic, nonprofit workers are struggling. Here’s what leaders and foundations can do to help.

Covid has turned work — and life — upside down for many nonprofit workers. Here are the stories of two.

Over the past year dozens of new funds and collaborative fundraising campaigns have sprung up to support groups working to end white supremacy, respond to those hurt by the pandemic, and safeguard the voting process.

Organizers of pooled funds and other efforts to get foundations to collaborate have used them as a test bed for changes they’d like to see in philanthropy.

Fundraisers expect the bulk of their events to continue happening online as the Covid-19 pandemic stretches on. The Chronicle asked experts what they learned about hosting virtual events in 2020 and how to make them even more successful in the year ahead. Plus, a checklist for virtual-event presenters.

Garth Hodgdon, a former sommelier, started the Legacy Cellar Foundation to help wine lovers make a difference.

A nonprofit head shares insights into how Covid-19 altered major-gift fundraising in some very positive ways.

International aid groups, social service organizations, advocacy nonprofits and others are all doing what they can to ensure vaccines get to people of color, the homeless, and other people in need.

Systemic social and economic change is not and should not be the primary focus of philanthropic support. Expanding the reach of our nation’s great charitable institutions and supporting local causes is still the best way to help people achieve the American Dream.

Congregations and faith-based nonprofits are an untapped resource for persuading more people to get vaccines, but they need much greater philanthropic support.