$500 Million Campaign Reveals New Fundraising Might for National Park Foundation
The 50-year-old organization had never raised more than $25 million in a year until it launched its first-ever drive in 2013. Now, its leaders are surveying vast new territory.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
Tools to Help You Respond to This Year’s ‘Giving USA’ Findings
Tips and advice for winning major gifts, tapping corporate and foundation grants, and adjusting your fundraising strategy in unpredictable times.
By Margie Fleming Glennon
Chief Content Officer
Giving Surged to $410 Billion in 2017. Will the Growth Last?
Charitable support increased in dollar terms for the fourth straight year, according to the newly released “Giving USA 2018" report, but there are warning signs ahead in donor trends, tax changes, and trade-war threats.
By Heather Joslyn and Timothy Sandoval
Gifts Roundup: Cincinnati Zoo Secures $50 Million for Elephant Habitat
Also, Denny Sanford donates $100 million to help kids form strong social bonds, and a retired high-school teacher left $7.4 million to the University of Kansas.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Craigslist Founder’s $20 Million Gift Signals Ongoing Commitment to Journalism
Billionaire Craig Newmark says his donation to the City University of New York’s graduate journalism program is part of a campaign to counter fake news and “bad actors” who are undermining democracy.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: $50 Million Gift to Cincinnati Zoo
In other articles, the former chairman of Wells Fargo is giving $20 million to DePauw University; the Gates Foundation is starting a nonprofit biotech in Boston; a little-known conservative Midwestern couple is wielding big influence in philanthropy; “design thinking” can help nonprofits with fundraising; how to get narcissists to give to charity; and other articles about legal news and investing and opinion and much more.
Daily News Roundup: Mo. House Drops Attempt to Get Records From Greitens Nonprofit
In other articles, the Danish drugmaker Lundbeck has agreed to pay $52.6 million to resolve a U.S. inquiry into its financial support of patient-assistance charitable foundations; the Shubert Foundation is giving $30 million to more than 500 performing-arts groups; families on the Gaza Strip are increasingly needy due in part to the freezing of U.S. aid; and more news and features.
Daily News Roundup: David Koch Leaves Conservative Nonprofit
The billionaire industrialist and philanthropist is in declining health. In other articles, money for the universal basic income experiment in California is coming from the Economic Security Project, co-chaired by one of Facebook’s founders, Chris Hughes; the Lichtenstein Foundation is giving big while winding down; the Kellogg Foundation is starting a $10 million small-business loan fund for Battle Creek, Mich.; and more news and opinion.
Why Money Shouldn’t Trump Mission When Choosing Board Members
When nonprofits fill their boards with megawealthy people, mission suffers and differing viewpoints are lacking. Here’s why economic diversity among trustees is good for nonprofits and how to make it happen.
By Isa Catto
Contributor
Billionaire Gives $100 Million to Expand ‘Emotional Learning’ Program for Kids
The gift from banker Denny Sanford supports a curriculum designed to help children identify connections among thoughts, emotions, and actions, among other things.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Daily News Roundup: Anti-Gun-Violence Teens on Get-Out-the-Vote Drive
The March for Our Lives youth movement will go on a bus tour across the country this summer to register young people to vote. In other articles, the Gates Foundation found it benefited from offering 52 weeks of paid parental leave; some wonder if the IRS’s scrutiny of blue states’ tax workarounds will also bring more attention red states; among the options Starbucks’s Howard Schultz is weighing is philanthropy; and more news.
Personal Ties Guide L.A. Couple’s $190 Million in Giving to Schools and Hospitals
Investors Richard and Melanie Lundquist, part of the latest crop of Giving Pledge signers, have tapped business connections and teamed with Los Angeles’s former mayor to improve education and health care for thousands in the city.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
The major-gift-fueled rise in overall dollars donated is masking a fundamental shift in philanthropy: The share of people who give is dropping across all demographics. Are fundraisers doing enough to lock in tomorrow’s donors?
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Daily News Roundup: Santa Fe Shooting Survivors Start Nonprofit
In other articles, the Parkland students that formed the nonprofit March for Our Lives are trying new ways to hold politicians and businesses accountable for gun safety; critics are questioning Food for the Poor’s claims of low administrative costs; a judge has delayed an order to force Missouri Governor Eric Greitens’s nonprofit to turn over records; Warren Buffett’s charity lunch sold for $3.3 million; and much more about giving and arts and culture and opinion.
Gifts Roundup: Sesame Workshop and Gun-Violence Research Each Get $20 Million
In other news about recent gifts, the UCLA law school gets $4.3 million, and Duke University men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and his wife, Carol, commit $3 million for low-income college students.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Bloomberg Foundation Pledges $375 Million to Help Needy Kids Attend College and Get Career Training
The former mayor of New York said the money takes aim at intergenerational poverty by helping more deserving kids get higher education.
By Drew Lindsay
Contributor