Nov. 1, 2022

To solve the problem, some groups are offering bonuses, giving fundraisers more decision-making power, and more.

In 2018, Unicef realized it had a problem: The international humanitarian group could not hold on to its major-gift fundraisers. In that year alone, 30 percent of the fundraisers who brought in the biggest gifts quit.

In a Chronicle survey, 30 percent of respondents were somewhat or very dissatisfied with their organization’s diversity.

Lessons from the city’s lead and water crisis are especially important now as other cities like Jackson and Baltimore struggle with drinking-water issues resulting from failing infrastructure and decades of disinvestment.

Foundations and donors made investments in health care as well as economic development, education, and community organizing.

When Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, walked into the American Museum of Natural History’s famed Hall of Dinosaurs, she held her own amid towering velociraptors.

Individual donors gave a total of $326.9 billion to nonprofits last year — about two-thirds of all charitable giving — according to the latest “Giving USA” report. Much of that came from some of America’s wealthiest donors.

The Donor Participation Project was started as a way for development professionals to explore how changes in fundraising practices could encourage more people to give to nonprofits.

With many organizations returning to in-person events, these smallish gatherings at people’s homes are popping up — and have appeal to people wary of germy indoor events.

When grant makers turned down the author’s request 20 years ago to fund his fledgling organization, he quickly attributed it to institutionalized racism. His mentors’ response: Don’t you dare blame outside forces for preventing you from succeeding. Instead, refine your work and build something better.

Pablo Eisenberg, who died last week, was unparalleled in bringing passion, energy, and fierceness to the fight for justice. See also a tribute to him by the Chronicle’s editor.

Grant makers aren’t giving away their own money so the conversation with their partners should always be about equals working to change the world — not as benefactor and supplicant.