New Data Tool Tracks Nonprofits’ Rise and Decline
The Urban Institute’s online tool tracks how various causes fare in attracting support in cities, in states, and across the country.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Daily News Roundup: Planned Parenthood Sees Flood of ‘Pence’ Donations
Also, Lincoln Center appoints its first woman leader, and a new study says donations have replaced ticket sales as U.S. orchestras’ chief revenue source.
Daily News Roundup: Trump Tax Policies May Curb Giving Incentives for Rich
Also, food brand Newman’s Own plays up its giving and plays down its star power to appeal to millennial shoppers, and much of the Trump transition website is found to be cribbed from a nonprofit.
Daily News Roundup: Trump’s Election Fuels Fundraising Jump for News Nonprofits
Also, the V.A. takes steps to fire a staff lawyer who ran a private veterans charity that spent almost all its donations on fundraising.
Daily News Roundup: Ex-Charity Leader Elected Mo. Governor
Also, Los Angeles voters approve a $1.2 million fund to build housing for the homeless, and a British veterans group draws scorn for raising money by selling T-shirts with anti-Islam and neo-Nazi messages.
Daily News Roundup: Food Banks Try Supermarket Tactic to Push Healthy Eating
Also, advice for nonprofits on building a better 403(b) retirement plan and stamping out cronyism in board recruitment.
Daily News Roundup: Clinton Fund Got Qatar Gift During Hillary’s State Tenure
Also, a New York Times special section on giving includes looks at Silicon Valley’s big-bet philanthropy and a wave of online services that screen charities to advise donors.
Daily News Roundup: Report of ‘Likely’ Clinton Foundation Charges Rebutted
Also, The New York Times examines how millennials’ values and declining religious participation are changing philanthropy.
Daily News Roundup: Yogurt Mogul’s Refugee Advocacy Draws Ire From Right
Also, reports on the growth of “venture philanthropy” among disease nonprofits and how Chelsea Clinton emerged as the “parent” at her family’s foundation.
Daily News Roundup: FBI Tussled Over Investigating Clinton Foundation
Also, The Washington Post summarizes its months-long examination of Donald Trump’s giving, concluding that the candidate’s philanthropy is largely a “facade.”
Daily News Roundup: Critics See Disconnect in Ford Foundation Head’s Pepsi Role
Also, San Francisco auditors conclude that one of the city’s biggest cultural institutions acted inappropriately but not illegally in making a $450,000 payment to an ill ex-employee without board approval.
How the 2016 Philanthropy 400 Was Compiled
A variety of sources were used to make The Chronicle’s list as comprehensive and accurate as possible.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips
Contributor
A New Way to Give: Inside the Donor-Advised-Fund Explosion
A Chronicle analysis of 85 sponsors of donor-advised funds offers insights into the phenomenal growth of these giving vehicles that are challenging conventions of philanthropy.
By Drew Lindsay and joshua.hatch
Daily News Roundup: Myanmar and U.S. Top List of Most Generous Countries
Also, finance mogul Paul Tudor Jones plans an investment fund made up of socially responsible corporations, and a former antipoverty activist draws fire as the head of New York City’s homelessness agency.
Silicon Valley Donors Ignore Local Needs, Report Finds
Philanthropy is burgeoning along with the region’s wealth, but the tech-sector elite pays relatively little attention to charities in its own backyard, according to a new study.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Clinton Foundation Fundraising Dropped $57 Million in 2015
Big annual swings in fundraising are not unusual for the charity, but additional precipitous declines could lie ahead.
By Peter Olsen-Phillips and Megan O’Neil