Required Reading for Running a Capital Campaign
A collection of articles and advice to help your nonprofit run a big fundraising drive.
Big Gifts and the New Tax Law: Boom Now, Bust Later?
High-earners may make big gifts in 2025, but their giving may decline next year.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
Is the Giving Pledge Living Up to Its Potential?
Only 13 percent of U.S. billionaires have signed the Giving Pledge, and almost 80 percent of the original signers’ gifts have gone toward their foundations.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Get Your Major Donors on the Path to Big Giving at Year-End
The summer is an ideal time to deepen ties with donors and craft a cultivation plan for the rest of the year, major-gifts experts advise.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
Funders Commit $1 Billion Toward Developing AI Tools for Frontline Workers
NextLadder Ventures will provide grants and investments to develop tools for public defenders, parole officers, social workers and others who help Americans in precarious situations.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Capital Campaigns — Full Speed Ahead or Time to Pull Back?
How charities are handling ambitious fundraising efforts in a time of economic uncertainty.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
Depression Research Gets Big Boost From Steel Magnate’s $40 Million Gift
Plus, Amway heirs gave $20 million to Northwood University, medical students in Ellsworth, Kan., will benefit from a $15 million donation, and a $10 million gift will support budding lawyers pursuing public service careers.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Why Elon Musk’s $34 Billion Loss Wasn’t Really That
What it tells us about the philanthropy of the ultra-wealthy.
By Tobias Jung
Contributor
Lurie Family Gives $50 Million to Back Autism Research
Plus, Vassar College received $28 million for its music programs, a Chicago art collector sold her collection to back quantum science, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center got $50 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Colgate U. Lands $105 Million for Student Housing Campus
Plus, the widow of the founder of Cintas gave the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra $60 million, and the Heinz History Center and two universities received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How Small Nonprofits Can Run a Strong Capital Campaign: 8 Tips
Nowadays groups of all sizes are pulling off multiyear drives. Here’s what you need to know to succeed and how to get started.
By LISA SCHOHL
Contributor
MIT and Other Institutions to Share $90 Million Gift
Plus, construction projects at three universities attracted more than $35 million from private donors, and nursing students at an HBCU will benefit from a $1 million windfall.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
$50 Million Gift Launches New Women’s Health Program
Plus, hedge fund investor Ken Griffin gave $10 million to NYU Langone Health to create a center that will offer programs focused on women’s health and well-being, and three other universities landed big gifts for health-care programs.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Houston Couple Gives $150 Million to Launch Pediatric Cancer Center
Plus, Georgetown University received $25 million for its nursing school, and the National Constitution Center got a $15 million donation to celebrate the founding of the United States, and the donor is loaning a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution and a document that led to the creation of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
N.Y. Couple Gives $125 Million to Help Israeli Medical Students
Plus, USC Shoah Foundation landed $30 million to endow the Holocaust remembrance organization’s efforts to collect and preserve thousands of Holocaust survivor testimonies from around the world, and the Library of Congress received $20 million to purchase a rare 17th century viola for its collection.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
UCLA Lands $25 Million to Launch a Center for Digestive Health
Plus, the National Academy of Sciences received $20 million, Agnes Scott College got $15 million, and three other universities received eight-figure gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor