Thursday: Webinar on Diversifying Donors
How to Attract Asian American and Indigenous Supporters Join our 75-minute session to learn from two major donors and a nonprofit executive about challenges and new opportunities for engaging these donors, what motivates them to give, and how to develop messages and tactics that will resonate. You’ll also get real-world examples of how to approach potential big donors and ask them to give. Join us on Thursday, October 21, at 2 p.m. Eastern.
Nonprofit News From Elsewhere
Christian Aid Ministries, the missionary group that had 17 members kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend, is a well-funded “big dog in the mission world,” but at least some of the kidnapped members were new to Haiti and other Americans there wonder why they ventured into an area known to be especially dangerous. The Millersburg, Ohio, organization was founded in 1981 and had revenue of $130 million in 2019. It often helps smaller missions get aid to some of the 126 countries it’s involved in, wrangling shipping containers and expensive all-terrain vehicles. But amid Haiti’s political unrest and social breakdown after the August earthquake, armed gangs control half of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and kidnapping is a revenue-raiser for them. One American who has lived in Haiti since the 1990s said the area outside the city where the group was taken “is a no-go zone these days.” (New York Times)
Plus: What Is Christian Aid Ministries and What Does It Do in Haiti? (New York Times)
The McKnight Foundation says it will reduce its investments in polluting industries while expanding holdings in clean technologies to achieve a “net zero endowment” by 2050, although that doesn’t necessarily mean it will purge all of its fossil-fuel investments by then. The Minnesota-based grant maker, which has a $3 billion endowment, says it has already begun reducing its investments in fossil-fuel companies. Elizabeth McGeveran, the foundation’s director of investments, said McKnight might continue owning investments in fossil-fuel companies involved in energy-transition projects, although it is likely that eventually those will drop out of the portfolio as well. “In the short-term we’ll still have exposure. In the long-term I expect we won’t,” McGeveran said. (Reuters)
Conservation and the Climate
- Philanthropic Climate Change Pledge Drive Gains Speed (Devex)
- Nearly $7 Million Awarded in First Earthshot Prizes (New York Times)
More News
- Why the Salesforce CEO Wants to Redefine Capitalism by Pushing for Social Change (NPR)
- Neb. Courts Release Nonprofit’s Prison Overcrowding Reports (Associated Press)
- San Antonio Nonprofit Known for Serving Vets Becomes Big Player in Migrant Detention Industry (San Antonio Report)
- $100 Million Anonymous Gift Will Fund Construction Career and Technical Education Center in Michigan’s Kalamazoo County (MLive)
- Obituary: Margo Leavin, Champion of L.A. Artists and Major Donor to UCLA, Dies at 85 (Los Angeles Times)
Arts and Culture
