Charity Creates a Searchable Directory of Giving Circles
Philanthropy Together aims to expand the number of giving circles globally to 3,000 by 2025, with their members contributing a collective $1 billion annually to philanthropic efforts.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Not Just for Dancing Teens: Some Charities See Potential in TikTok Fundraising
Some nonprofits hesitate to embrace the video-sharing app, but those who have say it helps them authentically connect with younger supporters, spread their message more broadly, and raise money in a new way.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Crowdfunding Continues to Gain Traction as a Fundraising Tool
Roughly 32 percent of people say they donate to a crowdfunding effort each year, according to a survey. Nine out of 10 respondents said they’d continue to give the same amount or more to crowdfunding efforts over the next three years.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Asian American Business Leaders Pledge $10 Million to Fight Hate
The founders of Peloton, Stitch Fix, YouTube, and Zoom are among the more than 3,400 Asian American business leaders and their supporters who have pledged to fund nonprofits that serve Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
New Program Trains Athletes in Advocacy and Philanthropy
Players on the Indiana Fever WNBA team are the first group in the new program designed to train professional athletes in how to choose a cause they care about and inspire people to support it.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Nonprofits Step Up to Bolster Covid-19 Vaccination Efforts
International aid groups, social service organizations, advocacy nonprofits and others are all doing what they can to ensure vaccines get to people of color, the homeless, and other people in need.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Events in Which Donors Raise Money From Friends Saw Steep Revenue Declines in 2020
With social gatherings banned or curtailed for much of last year, just four of the top 30 athletic and other large-scale fundraising campaigns managed to outpace their 2019 revenue.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Bill and Melinda Gates Say Digital Giving Can Democratize Philanthropy
They also highlighted winners of their foundation’s Reimagine Charitable Giving Challenge, which awarded as much as $100,000 to ideas for ways that help small-dollar donors support their own or other communities in need.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
College Fundraisers’ Confidence Continues to Be on the Upswing
The latest in a series of surveys of higher-education fundraisers found similar levels of confidence among fundraising leaders and gift officers for the first time since April 2020.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Donors Say They Plan to Continue to Give in 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic did not spoil charitable giving, and in some cases has even inspired bigger gifts, according to findings from two new surveys from technology companies FrontStream and Data Axle.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor