New Travel Website Links Hotel Discounts and Charity Gifts
Kind Traveler, launched earlier this month, offers up to 25 percent off published rates on stays at select boutique and style-focused hotels if users donate at least $10 to charity for each night booked, writes The New York Times.
A Tech Solution Helps a Busy Charity’s Clients Find Help
Action for Boston Community Development built a computer system to make it easier to navigate its wide variety of social services and locations.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Obituary: Peter Hero, Guided Growth of Silicon Valley Giving
Peter deCourcy Hero, who died of cancer Sunday at age 73, is credited with catalyzing a philanthropic culture in the tech industry while serving as president of a forerunner of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Palo Alto Weekly reports.
Independent Sector Names Education Technology Leader as COO
The hiring of Hopscotch Ventures founder Victor Reinoso will support Independent Sector’s “new vision” of using technology to foster better collaboration among its members, said Dan Cardinali, the nonprofit-advocacy group’s new chief executive.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
With New Capital, Auction Site CharityStars Eyes U.S. Push
European charity-auction startup CharityStars has secured $2.2 million in new funding and plans to use the infusion to expand into the United States and China, reports TechCrunch.
Potential Transfer of Nonprofit Web Services Creates Concern
The company that routes traffic to websites with domain names .org and .ngo might soon change, a process affecting millions of websites.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Watchdog Nonprofit Unveils Database to Trace ‘Dark Money’
The Center for Public Integrity launched a new online tool Tuesday aimed at shedding light on the flow of funds coursing into political campaigns via nonprofits that are not required to identify donors.
Data and the Search for Big Donors
How fundraisers crunch numbers, sift Facebook chatter, and analyze their results to learn exactly what donors want.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ideas that analysts noodle around with today could become the cutting-edge approaches of tomorrow. Here are two still largely on the drawing board.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Opinion: Clinton Foundation Donors Backed Russian Tech Venture
Major U.S. tech companies that have contributed to the Clinton Foundation heeded calls by the Hillary Clinton-led State Department to invest in a Kremlin effort to develop a Russian equivalent of Silicon Valley, according to a Wall Street Journal column.
Opinion: ‘Ice Bucket’-Backed ALS Advance No ‘Breakthrough’
Media accounts of new research partially funded by “ice-bucket challenge” donations overstated the importance of the work to promote a feel-good narrative about the 2014 fundraising sensation, writes HealthNewsReview.org, a nonprofit website that assesses reporting on medical news.
Drive for Homeless Teen Becomes Crowdfunding Cautionary Tale
An online campaign for a needy teenager hoping to attend college in Georgia shows how the internet can quickly transform a heart-tugging story into a magnet for donations, and how quickly the tale can turn, The New York Times writes.
Tumblr Key in Planned Parenthood Arm’s Centenary Campaign
The reproductive-health group’s New York chapter is putting the microblogging site at the center of a 100th-anniversary advertising campaign that does not shy away from the abortion issue, writes The New York Times.
Magazine Features 8 Philanthropic Leaders on Future of Giving
In essays for The Nation, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, and six other nonprofit leaders and activists write about how philanthropy can work to address the effects of income inequality and social injustice.
Correction: Funding for Nonprofit’s Google ‘Transparency’ Campaign
An official with the Campaign for Accountability, which has issued highly critical reports on Google’s ties to federal agencies and influence on internet-privacy policy, told SiliconBeat that the campaign is not a project of a fund that has received significant financial support from the Gates and Hewlett foundations, as the tech-news site had previously reported.
Kimbia’s Giving-Day Tech Failure Spurs a Wake-Up Call
Nonprofits are working with technology providers and their own staffs to prevent another costly meltdown — and some are questioning whether giving days are a sustainable way to raise money.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor