Conservative Groups Face Safety Threats. It’s Not Just Progressives.
No organization’s workers should fear for their lives.
By Debi Ghate
Contributor
Fidelity Charitable: Using Grants to Win Friends, Influence People, and Silence Critics
Distributing much-needed funds to organizations that improve the management and effectiveness of nonprofits also ensures those places do little to press for new regulations on donor-advised funds.
By Alan M. Cantor
Reporter
Philanthropy Isn’t Doing Enough to Support Youth-Led Voter-Mobilization Efforts
Donors says they understand the importance of involving young voters of color, but they need to provide tangible resources and funding — not just nice words.
By ALEJANDRA RUIZ and Lori Bezahler
Donor-Advised Funds Aren’t All Warehouses of Wealth
A leader of a New Jersey Jewish fund says new proposals to regulate DAFs should recognize the stark differences in giving rates by those at commercially sponsored funds versus those rooted in a specific region.
Here’s How Nonprofits Can Help Their Employees Vote in Force
We need more people who understand social missions to cast their ballots, so we as nonprofits should do all we can to increase turnout.
By BRIAN MILLER and Jeffrey Moore
How Family Giving Can Bring About the Change America Needs Now
By embracing more risk , stepping up their donations, and changing how they interact with nonprofits, family funds have the potential to be key to the recovery and reset ahead.
By Michael Moody and Danielle LaJoie
Foundations Should Examine Practices That Prevent Them From Giving Grantees More Power
Philanthropic organizations say they want to embrace bottom-up approaches to grantmaking, but a series of donor workshops reveals how entrenched ideas and policies create obstacles to such reforms, says a foundation consultant.
By Renee Karibi-Whyte
Contributor
Plan to Accelerate Giving Would Have Opposite Effect (Letter)
An idea floated by the philanthropist John Arnold and law professor Ray Madoff would take away all the advantages of donor-advised funds and crimp the role of family members in running their foundations.
By baroneditorial
Reporter
Foundations That Are Serious About Achieving Equity Need to Rethink How They Work
Ditching old ideas, structures, and titles, like the program-officer term that connotes people of wealth commanding others to take action, will help us do more to meet our aspirations.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Foundations Are Breaking All the Rules in the Pandemic. They Need to Keep Doing That.
Meeting together on Zoom, the walls that hobbled collaboration are falling. How can we keep the spirit going and make grantees a central part of every aspect of our operations?
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor