Daily News Roundup: $100 Million Pledge Backs Tex. Leadership Center
Also, Donald Trump’s pick for treasury secretary had ties to nonprofits that supported a lucrative merger involving a bank he led, and a black college’s marching band draws a donation windfull to perform at the inauguration.
4 Ways to Modernize a College Phone-athon Program
A top Colorado State fundraiser talks about how the university is using data analytics and a personal touch to keep money flowing in by phone.
By Timothy Sandoval
Contributor
How Tech Donors Could Change the World With $20 Million
Mark Zuckerberg and other technology billionaires should help nonprofits prove to skeptical donors the value of spending on tech to advance their missions.
By Paul Rieckhoff
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: $140 Million From Gates Backs Anti-HIV Implant
Also, Bay Area charities face challenges in meeting the demands of Silicon Valley philanthropists, and the IRS eyes land-donation deals structured to give investors big tax breaks.
Challenging Sacred Cows and Killing Jargon: Our Most Popular Articles of 2016
In a year full of changes and big questions for nonprofits, Chronicle readers looked for unconventional wisdom and evidence of ideas that work.
Daily News Roundup: Giving Via GoFundMe Passes $3 Billion Mark
Also, Amazon raises its profile in Seattle philanthropy amid a downtown building boom, and the NFL de-pinks its annual October cancer campaign.
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to Spend Down $1 Billion Endowment
The youth-focused grant maker said the decision was made to address the pressing challenges children face today and because larger, pooled grants tend to have greater impact than smaller, piecemeal ones.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Daily News Roundup: Google Parent Gives Staff Holiday Bonus to Charity
Also, San Francisco teams with tech leaders to fund a $30 million program to aid homeless families, and looming tax changes fuel a year-end burst of stock donations.
Daily News Roundup: Dumpster-Diving Samaritans Face Charges in Pa.
The two men were arrested while scouring commercial trash containers for food to give to the homeless. Also, Facebook investors allege collusion in a stock move that aided Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic ambitions.
Daily News Roundup: Bloomberg Commits $360 Million More to Curb Smoking
Also, the number of private-college presidents pulling down $1 million-plus paychecks rises and a newspaper investigates spending by a San Francisco socialite’s disability charity.
Daily News Roundup: Patagonia Black Friday Bonanza Aids Green Groups
Also, the ice bucket that started it all goes on display at a Smithsonian philanthropy exhibition, and two founders of Guess jeans ready their art collection for a new Los Angeles museum.
Daily News Roundup: Big Cities Say They Will Fight Trump on Deportations
Also, federal authorities accuse an Oregon charity of helping people set up religious nonprofits to evade taxes, and “free-market philanthropy” rises in Silicon Valley.
Daily News Roundup: Trump Taps Philanthropist Betsy DeVos for Education Dept.
Also, the president-elect says he won’t press for a renewed investigation of the Clinton Foundation and Exxon Mobil accuses Rockefeller family charities of spearheading a climate conspiracy.
Daily News Roundup: Apple Opens Payments Service to Charity Gifts
Also, volunteering takes a place on the agenda at industry conventions, and a university revises naming guidelines after stripping a controversial donor’s name from a campus facility.
Daily News Roundup: Clinton Fund Got Qatar Gift During Hillary’s State Tenure
Also, a New York Times special section on giving includes looks at Silicon Valley’s big-bet philanthropy and a wave of online services that screen charities to advise donors.
Daily News Roundup: Myanmar and U.S. Top List of Most Generous Countries
Also, finance mogul Paul Tudor Jones plans an investment fund made up of socially responsible corporations, and a former antipoverty activist draws fire as the head of New York City’s homelessness agency.