How to Ensure People With Disabilities Can Participate Fully in Virtual Events
Organizations that don’t prioritize accommodations for people with disabilities at their events convey the message that they don’t matter.
By Lisa Schohl
Director, Nonprofit Learning
Donations to Small Nonprofits Hit Harder by Covid Than Gifts to Larger Ones, Study Shows
Four in 10 nonprofits with annual budgets of less than $500,000 saw a decrease in donations in 2020 compared with 29 percent of larger ones.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tribute Concert Required Innovative Donations
The upcoming world premiere at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra of a classical music piece inspired by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would probably have been impossible if not for a bunch of lawyers in the Chicago area, a Long Island fine arts foundation and an award-winning pianist and composer who put the deal together.
Mandel Foundation Awards $50 Million to Cleveland Orchestra
Also, Amazon Web Services is committing $40 million to improve health equity and outcomes in marginalized communities, and Google.org gave $3 million to develop technology to identify service lines that deliver lead-contaminated water to poor households.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
More Donors Made One-Time and Monthly Online Gifts in 2020
Food banks, faith-based organizations and congregations, and public broadcasting posted the biggest growth in revenue from one-time donors.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
Groups That Serve Nonprofits Weigh Disclosing How Much MacKenzie Scott Gave Them
Organizations cite an onslaught of calls from consultants, financial advisers, and others who want to be associated with the gifts — and fear that if they release the amounts, it could make future fundraising more difficult.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Foundations and Big Donors Quadruple Fund to Transform Lives of Workers and Their Families
Ford, Rockefeller, and people like MacKenzie Scott and Jack Dorsey are seeking to build better paying jobs and find ways to ensure wages and benefits meet the needs of workers who today see little opportunity.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Fundraiser Turns to Podcasting to Shine a Spotlight on Black Development Professionals
A longtime fundraiser, Kia Croom, gives other Black philanthropy professionals a space to underline their value to the field and find support.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
MacKenzie Scott Shines a Light on Groups That Bolster Nonprofits and Foundations
Organizations that work to strengthen philanthropy have long been underfunded and have struggled to win the attention of individual donors. But that might be changing after a rush of multimillion donations from Scott. Plus, see how recipients of her contributions are weighing whether to announce how much they got.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Prospect Research Helps Fundraisers Examine Their Work for Bias
Santa Clara University’s Sharise Harrison hunts bias in advancement records and works to capture the full identities of potential donors. Plus, see all 15 profiles in our report on <a href="https://sandbox.philanthropy.com/package/toward-a-more-just-nonprofit-world">people driving the conversation on equity</a>.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
N.Y. Billionaires Leon and Toby Cooperman Pledge $100 Million to Medical Center in N.J.
Plus, the University of Alabama at Birmingham lands $95 million from Marnix and Mary Heersink to create a biomedical institute.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Stocks Faltered in September, but Fundraisers Shouldn’t Fret
While jobless rates continued a slow rebound, the stock market in September was topsy-turvy, and consumer confidence remains depressed.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
4 Ways to Reshape Nonprofit Recruitment and Hiring
The head of a new nonprofit would like to transform the way nonprofits approach recruiting and hiring. Here’s how.
By Linda Nguyen
Contributor
88 Percent of Affluent Households Donated in 2020, New Study Says
An increasing share of wealthy donors say their giving is driven by cause rather than by their affiliation with particular nonprofits.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Also, the BlackRock Foundation pledged $100 million over five years for climate technology that can achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and the Moody Foundation gave $100 million to build a new student center at Rice University.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
A Giving-Local Mind-Set Reinforces the Chasm Between Wealthy People and Those in Need
When philanthropists mostly donate to causes and services in their own backyards, they perpetuate inequitable giving trends and fail to recognize historic discriminatory practices that have kept people of color out of higher-income areas.
By Davey M. Kim
Contributor