Grants From Fidelity Donor-Advised Funds Top $5 Billion This Year
The total exceeds the amount disbursed in all of 2018. With more than two months still to come in 2019, the total for this year appears likely to exceed $6 billion.
By dan.parks
Contributor
When Major-Gift Fundraisers Manage Fewer Donors, They Can Raise More Money
Better work-life balance and a better donor experience are two of the benefits.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Plus, Oprah gives Morehouse College $13 million for scholarships, and four universities and a Houston group receive big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Billionaire Denny Sanford’s $350 Million Gift Aims to Spur Work-Force Development
The pledge to National University in San Diego brings Sanford’s total lifetime giving to nearly $2 billion, with some of his biggest gifts going to education and health care.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Oregon Community Foundation Lands a $75-Million Bequest (Gifts Roundup)
In addition, Chicago museum received $125 million, Gordon College got $75.5 million, and Oprah gave more than $1 million to help North Carolina students attending historically black colleges.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Billionaire Ken Griffin Gives $125 Million to Science Museum in Chicago
The founder of a $32 billion hedge fund has given a total of about $580 million since 2006, according to a Chronicle tally.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Charities Dedicated to Women and Girls Receive 1.6% of All Donations, Study Finds
The Women’s Philanthropy Institute also found that only 3.3 percent of all nonprofits in the United States are dedicated to helping women and girls.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Syracuse and Dartmouth Get $25 Million Each (Gifts Roundup)
Plus, UCLA lands $20 million, Morehouse College receives $2 million for financial aid, and other universities and the Michael J. Fox Foundation get big donations.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Nicole Shanahan Gives $100 Million for Reproductive Research and Other Causes
The lawyer and founder of ClearAccessIP, who married Google co-founder Sergey Brin last year, said the gift was motivated in part by her struggles to conceive a child.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Los Angeles Billionaires Behind $750 Million Gift Support Wide Array of Causes
In addition to their support for environmental research, Stewart and Lynda Resnick have a track record of giving to arts and culture groups, health and wellness organizations, and youth charities.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Cultivating Major Donors Is Growing More Important, Study Suggests
The heads of charities have good reason for the shift: Donations from modest and midlevel donors have dropped recently, and nonprofits have been relying on big donors to pick up the slack.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Also, best-selling author Dean Koontz and wife, Gerda, gave $9 million for high-tech cancer care, and entrepreneur Elizabeth Elting contributed $5 million for women MBA students at NYU.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
How to Protect Your Nonprofit From Controversial Donors
As donor scandals ensnare nonprofits, fundraisers and experts suggest policies and procedures to avoid problems.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Just Half of Wealth Advisers Say They Understand Impact Investing Well
New Fidelity Charitable survey finds gaps between financial advisers’ understanding of impact investing and their millennial and Gen X clients’ interest in the practice.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor
How to Streamline the Evaluation of Potential Donors
The University of California at San Francisco uses an algorithm that cuts low-scoring people from the list of potential donors and creates a tiered system for the rest based on the likelihood they will give.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Bill Gates Lauds Worldwide Gains in Education and Health, but Inequality Remains a Stubborn Problem
Girls are held back by the demands of unpaid domestic work, among other challenges, according to this year’s “Goalkeepers” report, released by Bill and Melinda Gates.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor