Bike-athon Founder Looks to the Future After a Record-Breaking Year
With nearly 10 percent growth in 2018, Billy Starr talks about the first-, second-, and third-generation of riders who are fueling his cycling event’s against-the-odds success.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
How One Founder Started a Nonprofit — and Raised $1 Million
The daughter of an alcoholic wanted to help youths who had experienced trauma.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
An Accidental CEO Builds Up a Grass-Roots Charity
Kathleen Ruddy wanted to be a doctor. Instead, she’s built the charity world’s biggest supporter of pediatric-cancer research.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
A Cancer Charity Uses Competition and Recognition to Keep Volunteers Engaged
Among other things, the group has a web page that spotlights the events, teams, and participants that raise the most money each year. Volunteers love the competition.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Harvard Raises $9.6 Billion in Capital Campaign: Daily News Roundup
It surpassed its goal by more than $3 billion. Plus, Sloan Kettering is coming under fire for its deal to share cancer-patient data with a for-profit; a veterans charity raised $6.5 million in Florida but allegedly gave none to charity; a big donor’s Facebook post with photos of two black women has roiled the University of Mississippi; a tool used to measure nonprofit efficiency is inaccurate, a study finds; and much more on nonprofits and the law; big gifts and grants; and weekend reads.
Facebook processed more than $45 million in gifts during 2017’s event — about 15 percent of the total share of estimated contributions.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery Brings History to Life
Far more than just a burial ground, the 180-year-old landmark is also a public park and tourist destination with a calendar full of unconventional events.
By Ariella Phillips
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Koch Fund Boosts Education Giving
The Charles Koch Foundation is giving far more to colleges and universities even as its philanthropy is facing more scrutiny. In other articles, single people are often seen as selfish, but research shows otherwise; the number of college students volunteering has hit an all-time low; a nonprofit that thrived after 9/11 has languished in recent years; and more, including opinion and the arts.
A Bike-athon Pro Talks About How to Motivate Your Volunteer Fundraisers
Rider Chris McPhee, who has helped raised $700,000 to fight cancer, builds highly committed peer-to-peer teams.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Sweet Briar’s $44 Million Rescue Offers Unusual Fundraising Lessons
An army of alumnae rallied to save their alma mater with a Starbucks challenge and a host of other creative ideas. Will it be enough to save the college over the long term?
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor
Big Gifts That Keep On Giving to Local Economies
Measuring the economic impact of giving is tricky, but if more donors were concerned about it, they’d probably give very differently than they do now, experts say.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
How New Forms of Philanthropy Are Squeezing Traditional Charities
Donors and foundations look to alternative legal structures and for-profit investments to effect change, with big implications for grant-supported nonprofits.
By Alex Daniels and Rebecca Koenig
Daily News Roundup: How the Tax Bill Could Alter Giving
In other articles, the Metropolitan Opera suspended its renowned conductor and former music director after three men claimed he sexually abused them as teenagers; Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of a foundation when the group funded an Israeli settlement; a nonprofit associated with the Koch Brothers gave $1.7 million to Project Veritas; and much more on giving.
New Orleans Cooks Up a Special Sauce to Boost Middle-Class Giving
Contrary to national trends, middle income workers have become the backbone of giving in the Big Easy, according to a Chronicle data analysis. Locals explain what made it happen.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Nearly half of adults are not married, and charities are finding that their giving is anything but traditional.
By Eden Stiffman and Megan O’Neil
From Zero to $40 Million: Elite Fundraiser Explains How She Did It
Exhaustive research and tenacity helped Anna Barber raise this tidy sum for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Now she’s striking out on her own.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor