Ex-Charity Navigator CEO Takes New Role Helping Nonprofits Assess Performance
Ken Berger, who left the watchdog group in April, joins a company that helps organizations use data to learn how they can improve.
By SUZANNE PERRY
Contributor
Google Co-Founder Views Tech Investment as a Way to Give
This week’s announcement of Google’s restructuring under the umbrella company Alphabet, which will allow co-founder Larry Page more freedom to pursue big “long-shot” projects, echoes his belief that for-profit enterprise can do more to change the world than traditional philanthropy, writes Vox columnist Dylan Matthews.
Opinion: Has Effective Altruism Lost Its Focus on Real Problems?
After attending the Effective Altruism Global conference, columnist Dylan Matthews of Vox suggests that the movement’s dominance by white male tech industry workers is skewing its focus away from problems like poverty and toward existential risks like an artificial-intelligence apocalypse.
Marshall Project Expands Role but Still Faces Money Challenges
Eight months after the launch of the Marshall Project, Nieman Journalism Lab finds that the nonprofit criminal justice-focused news site has diversified its coverage and developed effective partnerships with other media, but fundraising remains challenging.
Massachusetts Land Trust Uses Crowdfunding to Conserve Acreage
Two hundred and twenty six individuals donated a total of $25,000 during the seven-week campaign for Sudbury Valley Trustees, which was run through WorthWild, a company that specializes in environmental fundraising, according to The Boston Globe.
Ads That Plug Your Nonprofit … Again … and Again …
The technology for “remarketing” to a targeted audience of supporters has never been easier to use, and it’s catching on with at many charities.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Opinion: Is Technology Helping People Do Good or Do Well?
As Silicon Valley moguls talk up technology’s promise to drive social change, six academics, futurists, and philanthropists consider whether the tech industry is improving the world or just improving bottom lines, in The New York Times Room for Debate opinion feature.
Changes to Combined Federal Campaign Delayed One Year
The new rules, now set to begin in 2017, will prohibit federal workers from making donations in cash and charge participating nonprofits a fee instead of taking a portion of donations.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Russian Tech Tycoon Pledges $100 Million for ET Search
The 10-year commitment by Internet billionaire Yuri Milner will support an unprecedented expansion of scientists’ search for signs of extraterrestrial life, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Associated Press report.
The top-level web domain was originally intended for nonprofits, though its use has expanded to include other types of organizations.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Quickly Organized Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $570,000 for Baltimore
Launched by the local United Way after the death of Freddie Gray, with an original goal of $20,000, the drive reached $100,000 in two days and kept going from there.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Bill and Melinda Gates: Big in Philanthropy, Big on Facebook
Richard Branson and hedge-fund manager George Soros also scored high in a study of social-media clout among the world’s most generous people.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Fundraising Company Classy Wins $18 Million in Investment
The startup, which offers crowdfunding tools for nonprofits, announced Tuesday that it has secured $18 million in an investment round led by entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital Management, writes The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Push-Up Challenge Draws Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Carson Daly
Several big names have participated in a lighthearted campaign to help veterans, but nonprofits have yet to find the next ice-bucket phenomenon.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Opinion: Sean Parker on How ‘Hackers’ Can Remake Giving
In a Wall Street Journal column, the Napster co-founder and former Facebook executive describes how a generation of young tech moguls is changing traditional philanthropy and offers advice to this “hacker elite” on deploying its enormous wealth to solve global problems.
Gates Foundation Eliminates a Quarter of IT Staff
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has cut 33 of 129 jobs in its information-technology department as part of a reorganization of the unit, technology-news site GeekWire reports.