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FOR CAROLYN JOHNSON, the future of East Oakland looks a lot like its past. Not the divestment of recent decades hut the once-thriving middle-class Black neighborhood of her childhood in [...]

I CAN'T TELL YOU MUCH about the donor behind the recent $500,000 gift to Mount Calvary Christian. Neither can officials at the central Pennsylvania school. Jared Griest, who leads Mount [...]

SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. FOR AN INDUSTRY that works for the common good, the nonprofit world can be unkind. There's the elbow thrown while jockeying for a donor's attention. The disparaging [...]

EVERY FRIDAY, NPR pauses its broadcast of news--about wars, disasters, political bickering--to give listeners a moment of quiet intimacy. StoryCorps, which airs on public radio stations across the country, features [...]

A new generation of A.I.-driven organizations is upon us. What do they say about how charities will use the powerful technology? AARON ESTEVEZ'S middle-school classroom might not look like the [...]

A start-up is testing autonomous fundraisers that interact directly with donors. Some tech experts have concerns. EVER SINCE THE EMERGENCE of ChatGPT and other more powerful artificial intelligence tools, some [...]

THE FIRST DOZEN YEARS of Chong-HaO Fu's career moved almost in lock step, as he took on increasingly challenging positions all centered on his passion for education. He taught eighth-grade [...]

IT'S ESTIMATED that more than 500 nonprofits aim to heal a fractured America, many of them troubled by the blood sport that seems to accompany most political disagreements. Todd Rose [...]

WILKES COUNTY, N.C. HERE IN THE FOOTHILLS of the Appalachians, big philanthropy operates through L.B. Prevette, a self-described 'hillbilly lesbian' who sports an abundance of tattoos, mismatched earrings, and T-shirts [...]

IN THE world of philanthropy, the future is having a moment. Many grant makers set strategies and goals to achieve over three, five, or maybe 10 years at the longest. [...]

DURING THE HEIGHT of the pandemic, the need for housing and services for victims of domestic violence grew so fast that the New Life Center in Arizona could barely keep [...]

JOE GEBBIA, a co-founder of Airbnb, looks for one primary thing when he decides what charities to support: the founder. He's drawn to people who have the creativity, imagination, and [...]

Most board members understand that their role includes helping bring in money for a nonprofit, but they don't always know how best to go about it or feel comfortable asking [...]

Four years in, it feels as if the only thing we really know about MacKenzie Scott's grant-making process is that we don't know much at all. Since Scott started surprising [...]

Mackenzie Scott's grant-making approach--unrestricted multimillion-dollar gifts without interference or onerous reporting requirements--has proven particularly valuable to Native American nonprofits, whose history with private philanthropy has long been marked by a [...]

LAST FALL, the business school at the University of California's Berkeley campus launched an effort to tackle a pain point in the nonprofit w orld: the lack of financially savvy [...]

The number of people using donor-advised funds is growing fast, but it can be hard to find and cultivate them. Here's advice from several experts. FUNDRAISERS CAN'T AFFORD to overlook [...]

CRYSTAL HAYLING found her way into philanthropy in an old-school way: by answering a classified ad in the Los Angeles Times. The new Los Angeles Women's Foundation was seeking its [...]

SOPHIA LOMBARDO has always felt like she was destined to work in the nonprofit world. Her mother gave birth to Sophia's older brother at 16 and later became the first [...]

THE RESIGNATION of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, under apparent pressure from donors, sparked a debate about donor influence --not just in higher education but in the nonprofit sector [...]

THE GIVING CRISIS is finally beginning to hit nonprofits where it hurts--the pocketbook. But organizations are fighting to win back everyday donors. For the past two decades, the share of [...]

NONPROFITS have faced years of struggle to hold on to staff members and hire new ones. Low pay, burnout, and employees' desire for work-life balance have been stubborn problems. The [...]

ADVERTISING for donor-advised funds often features a cute photo of a piggy bank--a visual representation of the funds as charitable savings accounts. Marketers, however, could soon add images of a [...]

ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO, city inspectors posted an orange sign on the door of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. A tree limb had breached an exterior wall, and the [...]

THE REV. LORI WHITTEMORE has watched her congregation dwindle for years. A Unitarian Universalist minister in Saco, Maine, Whittemore is realistic about everything that keeps people from the pews on [...]

WEALTHY DONORS are giving generously, even as the number of everyday Americans who give to a charity is dwindling. Rich individuals donated an average of nearly $35,000 in 2022, one [...]

THE $4.7 BILLION California Endowment has named Brenda Soforzano, an early architect of 'trust-based philanthropy' and a veteran of health-care grant making in the Golden State, as its next president. [...]

NEW YORK ONCE PER WEEK in a midtown Manhattan hotel, dozens of Girl Scouts gather in a spare room made homey by string lights and children's drawings. They earn achievement [...]

As THE MEDIA and elites across America take up a fight to 'save democracy,' Big Philanthropy is casting itself in the role of superhero. Since 2011, the University of Pennsylvania's [...]

IN THEIR MUST-READ BOOK How Democracies Die, Harvard scholars Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that broad-based coalitions have a unique role in preserving liberal democracy. 'Coalitions of the likeminded [...]

THERE IS A SCENE in the first Star Wars where the heroes find themselves in a garbage compactor. They frantically grab for anything that can keep them from getting crushed [...]

AN ALARMING NUMBER of foundations are falling into a dangerous right-wing trap and ensnaring racial-justice movements and nonprofits in the process. Emboldened by the Supreme Court's ruling last summer against [...]

MANY NONPROFITS continue to hold on to decades-old fundraising strategies that primarily target men--specifically older white men. But those strategies could result in the loss of billions of dollars in [...]

EVER SINCE the Supreme Court ruled last year that affirmative action in higher education was unconstitutional, a tidal wave of legal attacks against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has swept [...]

I WAS EXHAUSTED. I can say 'was' because today I have that postsabbatical glow, thanks to the paid sabbaticals offered by my employer, the Bridgespan Group. For my time off, [...]

RAISING CHILDREN is filled with many remarkable moments. As parents, we've learned to cherish the small victories and seemingly insignificant conversations that, in hindsight, shape who our kids are becoming. [...]

EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO in Mexico City, 30 women from 26 countries came together to start an organization committed to supporting women who run grassroots environmental groups around the world. Melinda [...]

Shared leadership helps organizations find the skills they need and can be an answer to candidates' demand for greater work-life balance. THE PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES was looking for stability [...]

FOR YEARS NOW, the discourse in liberal philanthropy has been all about sharing power as well as giving away money. By making long-term, unrestricted grants to nonprofits, donors place decision-making [...]

Most fundraisers in the Chronicle's exclusive survey expect their groups to raise enough money to meet their goals this year, but there's a deep sense of unease about the economy. [...]

IN 2021, in the midst of a major pandemic-induced diaper crisis, the Greater DC Diaper Bank turned to a then-fledgling tool to cope with surging demand: artificial intelligence. At first, [...]

Once obsessed with bloat and overhead, the nonprofit evaluator wants to judge impact and more. Data, however, is hard to come by. LAST YEAR, 11 million people visited the website [...]

Fortune 500 companies are giving away a smaller share of profits than they used to. Where does that leave nonprofits in their backyards? CATERPILLAR is both the world's largest manufacturer [...]

YVETTE GUIGUENO, a fundraiser, has no use for one of the cornerstones of her profession. She has ignored it throughout her 16-year career, even as she worked at the types [...]

TREKKING 20 miles a day through California, Oregon, and Washington on the Pacific Crest Trail, Elizabeth At well rediscovered an identity as a curious individual, an explorer --not just a [...]

WHAT KINDS OF NONPROFITS does MacKenzie Scott support? Almost four years and more than $15 billion into her giving spree, the philanthropist is fairly tight-lipped about her grantees. She writes [...]

KATE NELSON was in Los Angeles pursuing her passion for stand-up comedy and theater when the Covid pandemic hit. The senior at Emerson College had just spent a few hundred [...]

IN 2020, grant makers swore up and down that they had changed. Instead of attaching restrictions and rules to the funds they provided, many foundations said they would loosen their [...]

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S June decision barring the use of race in college admissions was watched carefully by nonprofit legal experts, who predicted the ruling would be used as a [...]

WYATT THE CHATBOT has already helped more than 30,000 high-schoolers complete their federal student-loan applications on time--a key step to unlocking money to pay for college. Day and night, students [...]