January 2023

Charity workers want better pay, benefits, and equity, but contract talks can be contentious. Is there another way?

When employees organize a union at their workplace, the charity’s leaders are sometimes unaware and are caught off-guard by the news. Plus, read our report on how nonprofit groups are unionizing.

Rafat and Zoreen Ansari are Indiana physicians who are devoting their fortune to fostering a better understanding of the world’s religions and ensuring people with autism get the care they need.

A Baltimore foundation gave nearly all of its $1 million in assets to resuscitate a nonprofit newspaper. Its goal: to put the money in the hands of a Black-led charity and counter the idea it’s enough just to give to racial-equity organizations

Loretta Ross, who won a prestigious MacArthur fellowship in 2022, helped expand the abortion debate by creating a framework that brings together social justice and reproductive rights.

The nonprofit revved up small-gift donations with a free data-analytics product offered by the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.

New research prompted more funding and advocacy.

As more employees organize and seek a voice in corporate decisions affecting their lives, grant makers have the best chance in decades to address labor-market issues that have long stood in the way of worker equity and opportunity.

As election-related activities such as get-out-the-vote efforts in Georgia become more common in the nonprofit world, greater scrutiny is needed of practices that allow people to give to 501(c)(4) groups and avoid paying taxes on those contributions.

This year’s list reflects a world struggling to address the climate crisis, conflict, and the innovations and dangers posed by technology.