Volunteers Can Teach the Professionals a Lot About Raising Money — if They Let Them
As donors themselves, volunteer fundraisers understand what makes potential donors tick — and often in ways the professionals don’t. Greater respect for their skills and increased collaboration with development staff are sorely needed.
Advancing Health Equity Should Include Supporting Those Living With Rare Diseases
More than 25 million Americans suffer from rare diseases, yet research and advocacy to combat these illnesses receive limited philanthropic support. Grant makers have an obligation to make addressing rare diseases part of their efforts to ensure that everyone has access to care.
By Peter L. Saltonstall
Contributor
As in other conflicts around the globe, sustaining donor interest in the war in Ukraine is an ongoing battle. But grant makers can have a lasting impact if they focus on building strong, stable, and peaceful societies.
By Alexandra Toma
Contributor
Donors Leery of Supporting Grassroots Organizing Need to Rethink How They Approach Such Work
The perceived messy work of building movements often scares away grant makers, but these efforts are critical to creating equitable societies. Donors need to adopt new practices and strategies to measure and support them.
By Ben Naimark-Rowse
Contributor
The End of AmazonSmile Is an Opportunity for Nonprofits to Revisit Their Values
Its free money for nonprofits came with a cost. It led groups to push aside fundamental beliefs to accept easy cash from a corporate behemoth whose business model harms the very communities they aim to protect.
By Christopher Hammett
Contributor
Americans Are Volunteering Less. What Can Nonprofits Do to Bring Them Back?
Recent surveys showing a decrease in volunteering largely blame the pandemic, but the problem isn’t new. Nonprofits need to figure out how to turn Americans’ desire to lend a hand to neighbors into more formal commitments to help their communities.
By Leslie Lenkowsky
Contributor
I Know Trusting Grantees Works Because It Propelled My Own Successful Career
When others doubted me, one man showed his faith in my ambition to become a business leader. Today, I’m putting that same trust in the grantees and low-income mothers my foundation supports.
By Holly Fogle
Contributor
The Rule of Law Faces Threats in the U.S. and Abroad. Philanthropy Needs to Pay More Attention.
Addressing myriad societal problems depends on a strong rule of law. Unfortunately, developing, promoting, and enforcing this fundamental component of healthy democracies isn’t on most donor radars.
By William H. Neukom
Contributor
Lloyd Morrisett’s Philanthropic Legacy Is Bigger Than Big Bird
The man who co-created “Sesame Street” also presided for decades over a foundation that has left a lasting mark on the entire field of communications and mass media.
By Lee D. Mitgang
Contributor
Refugees Like Me Know What Our Communities Need, but Donors and Large Nonprofits Aren’t Listening
Despite growing philanthropic recognition that the most successful movements are led by oppressed groups themselves, organizations that aid refugees remains mired in their colonial roots and a continued reliance on white so-called experts.
By Sana Ali Mustafa
Contributor