Impact Investing for Beginners: Advice From Experts
Foundation and nonprofit leaders share lessons learned from investments designed to reap social as well as financial gains.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Daily News Roundup: How Cash Aid Is Working in a Kenyan Village
Also, a Southern California orchestra courts controversy by inviting a prominent conservative talk-show host to be guest conductor at a benefit concert.
Daily News Roundup: Charities Mount Capitol Case for Universal Deduction
The push to open the write-off for donating to all taxpayers aims to counter a proposal to double the standard deduction, which nonprofit leaders say would cut into giving. Also, New York’s booming real-estate market has financially struggling congregations looking to sell historic houses of worship.
Daily News Roundup: Ala. Senate Hopeful Hit Over Pay as Nonprofit Head
An attack ad cites $1 million in compensation Republican candidate Roy Moore and his wife received as leaders of a Christian legal-aid group. Also, the head of GM’s philanthropy unit resigns, and the National institutes of Health leaves millions on the table in ending a brain-research partnership with the NFL.
Daily News Roundup: Zuckerberg-Chan Initiative Adds Another Adviser
Joel Benenson, a former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pollster, also works for the American Civil Liberties Union. Also, pension and endowment values at the University of California grew 14 percent thanks to lower money-management fees.
From Boys Town to Harvard: Big Endowments in the Cross Hairs
The exploding size of many nonprofits’ cash stockpiles has some lawmakers wondering how much is too much.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Nonprofit’s Twist on Private-Equity Fund Aims to Speed Diabetes Research
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s new nonprofit invests in companies studying the disease. Also, the United States is suspending a program that fights extreme poverty.
Letters: Chronicle’s Endowment Analysis Lacked Context
The chief financial officer at Stanford University says endowments are what lead to America’s economic growth, while leaders of a key college association see a missed opportunity to explain the difference between current gifts and those meant to ensure financial security.
Opinion: Grant Makers Can Promote Diversity by Focusing on Who’s Managing Endowment Assets
Foundations are taking many steps to promote inclusiveness, but too often they forget one area that matters: making sure the people who invest their assets aren’t just white men. Here’s how one foundation is changing the equation.
By MARY MCCLYMONT
Contributor
How to Capitalize on Donor-Advised Funds
The Chronicle’s “What Donors Want: Donor-Advised Funds” gives you advice you can use to tap into this fast-growing trend.
How the Chronicle Analyzed the Growth of Endowments
We examined more than 1,600 nonprofits with endowments of least $35 million.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Many Big Nonprofits Rapidly Stockpiling Endowment Cash, Chronicle Data Shows
For 253 of the more than 1,600 nonprofits studied, the dollars flowing into their endowments over six years exceeded the dollars flowing out by more than four to one.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Hundreds of nonprofits across the country are amassing huge amounts of money — many times more than they spend annually — and Congress is taking a closer look at these stockpiles of tax-exempt cash.
By Megan O’Neil and joshua.hatch
Nonprofit Coalition Takes a New Tack in the Trump Era
Dan Cardinali has spent his first year as head of Independent Sector finding ways to promote a populist tax idea and taking a more expansive approach to getting charities and foundations to work together.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Controversy Over Coke Giving Follows Ga. Health Official to CDC
The soft-drink giant funded anti-obesity programs in Georgia when Brenda Fitzgerald, incoming head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was the state’s health commissioner. Also, volunteerism jumps in New York City, and a tale of two Utah nonprofits that barred LGBT groups from events.
Daily News Roundup: NYC Plan for Arts Groups Links Funding to Diversity
Mayor Bill de Blasio says arts nonprofits’ progress on staff and board equity will be a factor in City Hall grant decisions. Also, big donors to the San Antonio Symphony form a nonprofit to take over operation of the financially struggling orchestra.