Desperately Seeking Fundraisers
To solve the problem, some groups are offering bonuses, giving fundraisers more decision-making power, and more.
By Emily Haynes and Rasheeda Childress
How Unicef Aims to Hang On to Its Major-Gift Officers
The organization is addressing the isolation and burnout on its global development teams in part with a professional development program for fundraisers called the Major Gift Leadership Academy.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Fundraisers Question How Much Progress Has Been Made on DEI
In a Chronicle survey, 30 percent of respondents were somewhat or very dissatisfied with their organization’s diversity.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
Little Amal Trip to New York City Shines Spotlight on Refugee Children
When Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, walked into the American Museum of Natural History’s famed Hall of Dinosaurs, she held her own amid towering velociraptors.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Fundraisers Band Together to Find Practical Solutions to the Giving Crisis
The Donor Participation Project was started as a way for development professionals to explore how changes in fundraising practices could encourage more people to give to nonprofits.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
What Nonprofit Advocate Pablo Eisenberg Taught Us All About Fighting for Change
Pablo Eisenberg, who died last week, was unparalleled in bringing passion, energy, and fierceness to the fight for justice. See also a tribute to him by the Chronicle’s editor.
By Gary D. Bass and Mark Rosenman
No Thank You: Why One Foundation Leader Doesn’t Want Gratitude From Grantees
Grant makers aren’t giving away their own money so the conversation with their partners should always be about equals working to change the world — not as benefactor and supplicant.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Urgent Philanthropic Action Is Needed as the Nation’s Water Crisis Claims Lives and Livelihoods
Climate giving too often focuses solely on future crises even though communities are already suffering the effects of drought, flooding, and other climate-driven water problems. Efforts to address the challenges facing two Western rivers demonstrate a better path forward for grant makers.
By Andrea Keller Helsel and Ted Kowalski
When grant makers turned down the author’s request 20 years ago to fund his fledgling organization, he quickly attributed it to institutionalized racism. His mentors’ response: Don’t you dare blame outside forces for preventing you from succeeding. Instead, refine your work and build something better.
By Eboo Patel
Contributor
How to Get Big Donors to Give in Troubled Times
Individual donors gave a total of $326.9 billion to nonprofits last year — about two-thirds of all charitable giving — according to the latest “Giving USA” report. Much of that came from some of America’s wealthiest donors.
By Lisa Schohl
Director, Nonprofit Learning
Porch Parties Are a Charming, Intimate Way to Raise Money. Here’s Why.
With many organizations returning to in-person events, these smallish gatherings at people’s homes are popping up — and have appeal to people wary of germy indoor events.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
Lessons from the city’s lead and water crisis are especially important now as other cities like Jackson and Baltimore struggle with drinking-water issues resulting from failing infrastructure and decades of disinvestment.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor