Charities are stepping up efforts to help their supporters raise money from friends. While the amount of money raised is still relatively small, the tactics help nonprofits expand their web of connections to potential donors.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
What Nonprofit Newsrooms Can Teach Charities About Attracting Online Supporters
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune offer practical lessons on building ties with an information-hungry audience.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Facebook and Twitter are important, but the Women’s Marches and other activist campaigns prove that an older form of electronic technology still has power to motivate followers, says Brian Young of Action Network.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Free Tool Helps Nonprofits Draw More Social-Media Fans
Facebook’s CrowdTangle tracks the performance of all an organization’s social-media accounts, and savvy nonprofits can use the data to boost fundraising.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Building the Nonprofit Online Communities of the Future
Connecting donors and beneficiaries online helps charities reach more people in need while forging stronger bonds with their supporters, says Katie Bisbee of DonorsChoose.org.
By Katie Bisbee
Contributor
Trustee rosters at major grant makers sorely lack socioeconomic and geographic diversity, a Chronicle analysis shows. What does that mean for philanthropy?
By Drew Lindsay and Rebecca Koenig
‘Coastal Elite’ Concerns Extend to Foundations, Chronicle Data Shows
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders railed against the power of an entrenched leadership class. They didn’t target philanthropy, but they could have, based on our first-of-its-kind analysis of major grant makers’ boards.
By Drew Lindsay and Rebecca Koenig
Inside Philanthropy’s Boardroom ‘Bubble’
At the 20 wealthiest national foundations, which control $162 billion in assets, plenty of board members have degrees from top private universities, but only a handful live in rural or poor parts of the United States.
On Gender and Race, Change Is Slow
A Chronicle review of trustees at 20 major U.S. grant makers suggests considerable work lies ahead.
By Drew Lindsay and Rebecca Koenig
A Progressive Environmentalist Fires Back at Trump Populism
Foundation leader Farhad Ebrahimi is using his inherited wealth to bring the fight over climate change into the social-justice movement.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
Donors Give More to Paid Fundraisers Than to Volunteers, Study Finds
People gave more often and in larger amounts when door-to-door fundraisers said they were being paid, according to new research.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Hollywood Producer Pursues ‘Focused and Specific’ Giving Strategy
Steve Tisch, whose film credits include Forrest Gump and Risky Business, learned his philanthropy from wealthy parents who stressed that the family’s status carried great responsibility to help others.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Rebuilding Lives by Tearing Down Old Houses
An enterprise of Baltimore charity Humanim, Details Deconstruction provides job skills and fair wages for people with histories of incarceration, addiction, and other problems and generates revenue for the parent organization’s programs.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Concrete Ways Philanthropy Can Fight the Spread of Misinformation
Encouraging scientists to become good storytellers and citizens and financing research on why people ignore facts are critical roles for foundations to play.
In the Trump Era, Big Foundations Must Give More to Black-Led Nonprofits
The centuries-long impact of racism and decades of neglect by philanthropy call for doubling down on aid to established organizations like the NAACP and new movements like Black Lives Matter.
By Susan Taylor Batten
Contributor
New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course
Rajiv Shah sits down with The Chronicle for a wide-ranging discussion about his plans to focus on a few big bets, strengthen the grant maker’s partnerships, and work with the Trump administration.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor