Young donors with unknown motivations are replacing aging stalwarts, making fundraising less and less predictable. Here’s what charities need to know to avoid being left behind.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Impact-Investment Fund Taps Leading Philanthropists
Reid Hoffman, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Jeff Skoll are among the business titans and giving experts who will advise the Rise Fund on investments’ social returns.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Water Charity Drills Down to Get to Know Real Needs
Well Aware seeks input from residents to ensure its projects make sense for the Kenyan communities they serve.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Fatherhood Sparked J.B. Pritzker’s Crusade for Kids
The Hyatt hotel heir, investor, and philanthropist says early-childhood education is the key to the nation’s economic future. He wishes more donors agreed.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Tech Wonders and Dilemmas Explored at Innovation Conference
Donors explore the implications of technology aimed at creating a better world at a conference organized by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Partnership Makes $401 Million in Loans Available to Rural Areas
The Department of Agriculture, seven foundations, and Bank of America join forces to make it easier for capital to reach distressed communities.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Religious Charities Commit $52 Million to Help Elderly Jews
The money will be used to provide food and medicine to people, including Holocaust survivors, living in the former Soviet Union.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Former Prosecutor of Nazis, 96, Pledges $10 Million to Prevent Genocide
Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg trial lawyer, donated $1 million to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to use the law to prevent mass killings. He plans to continue giving that amount annually for up to 10 years.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Urged to Tailor Data to Needs of Staff, Donors, and Others
When charities stop relying just on anecdotal evidence of their success, their performance improves and they attract supporters more easily.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$15 Million Gift Is Biggest Ever Dedicated to Freeing Innocent Prisoners
Cincinnati philanthropist Richard Rosenthal says he hopes his donation will spur others to follow his lead in supporting a cause that “truly saves people’s lives.”
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor