Disruption Ahead: What to Know About Donor-Advised Funds in 2019
With Fidelity Charitable poised to become the country’s biggest grant maker, can charity fundraisers — or Congress — ignore the stockpiles of money in donor-advised funds?
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Inside One Group’s Fundraising Windfall From Donor-Advised Funds
Why the Pan-Mass Challenge is the only regional nonprofit among the top recipients of Fidelity Charitable donations.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Effort to Spur Giving From Donor-Advised Funds Online Appears to Stall
A tech tool promoted by Fidelity Charitable and others as a fundraising boon has done relatively little to spur giving, and Fidelity is talking about a “revamp.”
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
How Charities Found #GivingTuesday Success Ditching Facebook for Face-to-Face Fundraising
One Ohio town of just 4,300 residents raised $1.6 million; a United Way promoted “Thanking Tuesday.”
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Giving to Tulsa’s United Way reached almost $26 million last year, just $5 million shy of the giving total to the United Way of New York City.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Homegrown business leaders are helping turn this city into an Ohio hot spot.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Nonprofits Are at Risk as the Wealthy Gain More Philanthropic Clout, Report Argues
A new analysis from the Institute for Policy Studies contends that tax-law changes are needed to rein in power of big philanthropy.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Snapshots of Fundraising Performance at 8 of America’s Favorite Charities
We take a closer look at the fundraising performance of Doctors Without Borders and Rotary, where giving soared in the past decade. Others struggled to escape the recession’s grip.
By Heather Joslyn and Drew Lindsay
Who’s Raising the Most: The 100 Charities That Are America’s Favorites
The country’s 100 top charities — United Way, Red Cross, Obama Foundation, and Harvard, among them — raised 11 percent of all cash and stock donated to charitable causes.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
How the 2018 America’s Favorite Charities Ranking Was Compiled
The goal: identify cause-driven organizations that most successfully earn direct financial support from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
By Tyler Davis and Drew Lindsay