Drew Lindsay
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A Half-Billion Dollars of Influence: Big Philanthropists and the Midterm Elections
Major charitable donors are becoming political heavyweights, thanks to controversial eight- and even nine-figure contributions. → Read More
Fundraisers Band Together to Find Practical Solutions to the Giving Crisis
The Donor Participation Project was started as a way for development professionals to explore how changes in fundraising practices could encourage more people to give to nonprofits. → Read More
2022’s ‘Collapse’ in Small Gifts Threatens Nonprofits as Recession Looms, Report Says
Charities are losing the supporters who could help them navigate a downturn, according to data from the year’s first half. → Read More
‘What’s Your Pet’s Nickname?': Fundraisers Forge Ties to Donors Via Digital Focus Groups, Surveys
An animal-welfare group is among those finding that monthly surveys bring supporters closer. → Read More
‘I Found My Peace': To Save Lives From Violence, This Group Aims to Change Lives
Philanthropists are betting millions on community programs that focus on the young men most likely to take a life or be shot. → Read More
How to Strengthen Donor Loyalty? A New Study Says Talk Less, Listen More
A survey of more than 1,000 charity supporters indicates two-way communication is key to long-term commitment. → Read More
Case Study in Digital Advertising: How to Spend at Year End
Inside the success of the Parkinson’s Foundation, plus tips for 2022 and adapting to new privacy measures online. → Read More
Fundraising Leadership at the Biggest Groups Still Has a ‘Shocking’ Lack of Diversity Despite Racial Reckoning
America’s nonprofits have promised to make their staffs look like America itself. Yet diversity remains elusive in the ranks of top fundraisers at the biggest organizations, despite significant turnover. → Read More
Heifer International’s Crypto Move and What It Might Mean for Everyday Donors
As cryptocurrency values plunge and some groups pull back on digital-cash giving programs, the development group doubles down with a crowdfunding platform it believes has lessons for all fundraising. → Read More
Portrait of the Grant Maker as an Artist
In a 20-year career in grant making, Kresge Foundation president Rip Rapson has done hundreds of drawings to make philanthropy’s complexity clear — to himself and to others. → Read More
How Mother Jones Defies Fundraising Rules to Build Community and Grow
The scrappy investigative journalism outlet wants donors to feel part of a “high-quality thought partnership.” → Read More
9 Ways to Forge Stronger Connections With Supporters
With rates of giving declining, here are tips for how to better engage everyday Americans. → Read More
2021’s surprisingly strong giving ...
Even as 2022’s economic uncertainty looms over fundraising forecasts, this much is clear: The pandemic-born surge in charitable giving was bigger than anyone knew. And it stretched into 2021. → Read More
Charity:water Believes Donors Have More to Give Than Dollars — if You Ask
The nonprofit offers its supporters a host of ways to give as they want. → Read More
Will a Money-Back Guarantee Win Over Wealthy Donors? An Antipoverty Effort Aims to Find Out.
The campaign aims to tap two big sources of capital — the wealth of individual philanthropists and impact investments. → Read More
From Newtown to Uvalde: Growth in Gun-Violence Philanthropy and a New Mind-Set for a Movement
How a decade between the two largest school shootings opened a new flow of grant dollars and ushered in a strategic rethinking of gun-control efforts. → Read More
Gun Violence, President Biden, and Philanthropy: An Activist Talks About What’s Next
Politicians on both sides of the aisle stand in the way of preventing tragedies like the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Tex., says the founder of Guns Down America. → Read More
Charity in Wartime: How a Ukrainian Children’s Cancer Group Carries On
The Tabletochki Charity Foundation helps families in their battle against the disease — and the Russians. → Read More
What Giving Tallies Miss: New Report Finds Significant Charitable Activity Outside of Nonprofits
Many gifts of cash and goods aren’t counted because they don’t go to formal charities. → Read More
An Aid Group Mends the Heartbreak of Ukraine With Sutures and Medicine
Project Hope, which has worked in Central and Eastern Europe since 1974, is providing medical supplies to Ukrainian hospitals and helping refugees who are fleeing the war-torn country. → Read More