Nonprofit Registry Launches New Dot-Giving Domain to Help Charities Raise Money
The new domain can be used by charities to complement their main site and make fundraising more efficient or by individuals to create sites to solicit gifts for charities or by corporations to highlight their social-responsibility programs.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
How to Unlock More Gifts: New Research Says Enhancing Psychological Well-Being Is Key
Impact isn’t the only thing big donors care about; they often want to be part of a large community, says a new study of people with at least $1 million in assets.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Open Philanthropy Gives $150 Million for Global Health, Climate, and Education
Also, the Lilly Endowment gave $80 million to improve public parks in Indiana, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded $4 million to 35 historic Black churches across the United States.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Harvard Lands $50 Million Gift to Launch Program Honoring Paul Farmer
Plus, gifts from MacKenzie Scott and Michael Jordan inspired a Washington State couple to give Friends of the Children $33 million to expand its youth mentoring and family services programs.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Fidelity Pledges $250 Million to Support Minority Students
The Invest in My Education program, announced Tuesday, plans to increase graduation rates and students’ ability to complete their education debt free.
By Glenn Gamboa
AP Business Writer
Disaster Giving Goes Mostly to Immediate Relief, Not Prevention or Long-Term Recovery
Foundation giving was 15 times greater in the year after the pandemic struck. But the emphasis on immediate relief worries experts, especially as climate change makes natural disasters more frequent and devastating.
By Kay Dervishi and Yesica Balderrama
Giving Was Up but the Number of Donors Was Down the First Three Quarters of 2022
Charitable giving was up 4.7 percent, but the number of individual donors was down 7.1 percent compared with 2021, according to new data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
A Fundraiser Rallies Donors to Loan Paintings for a Special Exhibit of Black Art at Cedars-Sinai
The exhibit was sparked by a call from a donor to a fundraiser to discuss leaving pieces by Black artists so the art would reflect more of the hospital’s patients.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
James Irvine Foundation Awards $35 Million to Support Workers in California
Plus, the Semiconductor Research Corporation gave $250 million to a consortium of seven U.S. universities for microelectronics research, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation committed $5 million to support studies focused on gun violence.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Damar Hamlin’s Toy Drive: What’s the Plan for the $8.6 Million?
The Buffalo Bills safety plans to use that money as well as the proceeds from the sale of T-shirts to support young people through education and sports and the Cincinnati trauma center that treated him after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
How the Columbus Zoo Tests the Fitness of Its Fundraising Program
The nonprofit revved up small-gift donations with a free data-analytics product offered by the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Livestreamers Up Their Games to Help Charities Raise Funds
Raising money for charity using livestreaming isn’t entirely new, but this genre has upped its game, with streamers raising $1.4 million for nonprofits. Find out how it’s done and if this might be a good fit for your group.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Experts Share Tips on Fundraising Amid Uncertainty
Several frontline fundraisers joined the Chronicle to discuss how the pandemic has changed their relationships with donors and which donor-cultivation strategies are most effective now.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply
Too often, nonprofits force development officers to grovel for donations from the rich, rather than emphasizing how to connect people in a community to support an organization’s mission.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan and Michelle Flores
The grassroots grants came from Co-Impact, a group supported by Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, among others, while the Mellon Foundation donated $11 million for a cultural center to memorialize the history of slavery in Richmond, Va.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
The emergence of text generating artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT could significantly change philanthropy — for better or worse.
By Daniel Hadley
Contributor