Walton Family Foundation Commits $20 Million for Arkansas State Park
Also, Morgan Stanley is giving $20 million to seven mental-health charities that serve young people, and the MacArthur Foundation donated $8.1 million to reduce incarceration in five counties nationwide.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Grant Makers Push for More Trust in Relationships With Nonprofits
Less paperwork. Simplified ways of measuring impact. More general operating support. It’s all part of the Trust Based Philanthropy Project’s plan for changing the relationship between foundations and grantees.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Data-Driven Program Evaluation Hurts Equity Efforts, Say Critics
Foundations should rethink the way they measure success if they want to achieve progress, say advocates for change.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Syracuse U. Gets $75 Million From the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Also, the Center at Sierra Health Foundation is accepting applications for $20 million in grants to help young people battling addiction in California.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
The next downturn — whenever it comes — will likely be different from those in the past.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
The Year’s Big Stories in the Nonprofit World That Point to Key Changes Ahead
Concerns about tainted money, undue pressure on fundraisers, the inequality gap, and the role of philanthropy in fixing democracy are among the issues we covered in the past year that will continue as major forces in the year ahead.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
Trust in Grantees, Not Command and Control
John Esterle and Pia Infante champion an approach to grant making that give grantees more power in decision making. A growing number of foundations are taking notice.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Family Foundations Shift Focus Toward Economic Equality
The shift is most notable for newer family-run grant makers, while older ones tend to focus on education.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Network of Community Foundations Hopes to Attract ‘Big Bet’ Money From Foundations
The big winners, if the movement gains traction, would be small nonprofits with a history of working successfully with community foundations to close the “opportunity gap.”
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Fun With Gerrymandering: Mapping Software Gives Ordinary Citizens a Lesson in Civics
A group of seven grant makers in Pennsylvania recently ventured into some unusual territory for most of them: the arcane world of congressional redistricting.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Grant Makers Want to Help People Use Their Voices
Some are working to get specific segments of the population more involved in civic affairs while others are taking a broader-based approach to educate people about the Constitution and the political system.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
The Microsoft alums are major donors who are building a brain trust of the best minds in philanthropy to understand how race undergirds big problems like homelessness and educational disparities.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Five CEOs of Wealthy Foundations Pledge to Do More to Help Charities Pay Overhead
Leaders of the Ford, Hewlett, MacArthur, Open Society, and Packard foundations also called on all grant makers to recognize that stingy policies are making it hard for many nonprofits to operate efficiently and stay solvent.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Foundation Assets Top $1 Trillion, but Signs Point to Slump
The increase occurred despite a run-up in grant making from $60 billion in 2013 to $75 billion in 2017, for a total of more than $320 billion over that five-year period.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Tiny Grant Maker North Star Points the Way to Big Shake-Up in Philanthropy
Its “participatory grant making” model, where control of the money is ceded to the community it serves, has drawn notice from bigger foundations and young philanthropists.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Fundraiser Salaries Jumped 8 Percent in 2018, Survey Finds
However, a relatively small percentage of fundraisers enjoyed most of those gains, according to a survey released Thursday by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
By dan.parks
Contributor