Council on Foundations’ New CEO Is Advocate for Giving Nonprofits More Power
Kathleen Enright wants to pursue close relationships with other groups, such as Independent Sector and the Philanthropy Roundtable.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
A Fundraiser’s Guide to Getting Narcissists to Give
New research based on the ice-bucket challenge shows that narcissists often fail to make promised donations. One possible solution: Be sure to recognize them publicly if they do give.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Analyzing Bezos’s $2 Billion Tweet, Line by Line
Jeff Bezos’s pledge has the philanthropy world buzzing, but it’s short on specifics. We parse his announcement for whatever clues it may provide.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Drug, Tech, and Financial-Services Companies Top List of Corporate Donors
The Chronicle’s 2018 report on corporate giving features 19 years’ worth of data on philanthropy among the country’s largest public companies.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips and Alex Daniels
Surprise! More People Give If They Don’t See the Pitch Coming
Avoid giving people “time to find reasons why they might not want to give,” says one of the researchers.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Foundations Break Their Grant Guidelines and Speed Cash to Immigrant Needs
Trump administration policies have prompted some grant makers to pump up their giving and stray outside their usual funding areas for an emergency response.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Special Breed of Grant Makers Hunts for New Ways to Solve Bedeviling Problems
Strategists from more than a dozen foundations are at the forefront of a movement to identify off-the-radar needs where philanthropy could make a big difference.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Donor-Advised-Fund Giving Favors Education but Not Religion, Study Shows
The study by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy may be another ominous sign in a pattern of shrinking giving to faith groups.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Assets Outpace Ford Foundation
For the first time in recent memory, a community foundation is now in the top ranks of grant makers. Only the philanthropies of George Soros and Bill and Melina Gates have bigger endowments.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Donors made at least 15 contributions of $1 million or more last year — no strings attached.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations