How to Make the Most of a Grant Maker’s Visit
In the latest video in a series on foundation giving, staff members share insights into successful visits to grantees.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How 3 Groups Are Navigating the Giving Seas
Charities are using creative events, extra hands, and tighter bonds with donors and their advisers to stay strong even if times get tough.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How an Advocacy Group Takes an All-Hands-on-Deck Approach to Big Donors
More than 60 staff members, trustees, and volunteers at Jewish Voice for Peace manage about 600 major-donor relationships in addition to other roles they play at the organization.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
More Emails Reach Supporters in 2015
On average, only 7 percent of nonprofit emails were delivered to spam folders in 2015, down from 12 percent the year before, a study finds.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How One Nonprofit Justified Its Project Budget to a Grant Maker
The Stapleton Foundation for Sustainable Urban Communities clearly defined how it arrived at the cost to build a new website in a grant proposal to the Aetna Foundation.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
27% of Groups Scored by Charity Navigator Will See Ratings Change
The watchdog is revising its system for evaluating charities’ financial health, adding new criteria and changing others.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How Grant Makers Can Help Charities Beyond Giving Money
Foundation representatives can sit on committees, write letters of support, and more.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
22% of Americans Say They’ve Donated to Crowdfunding Campaigns
Women are more likely to give to such online drives, and to start them, says a Pew Research Center study.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
A Match for Estate Gifts Helps 30-Year-Old Leader Build Endowment
Mike Goorhouse began his career in philanthropy at age 18 as a member of his organization’s youth grant-making group.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
5 Universities Received Half of All Private Support for Basic Science Research
A survey of U.S. higher-education institutions found that half the money earmarked for basic research in 2015 went toward the life sciences.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor