Alex Daniels
Philanthropy
Washington, DC, United States
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Growth of Organizations That Advance the Work of All Nonprofits Poses Challenges, Research Finds
Lack of funding stymies innovation for these groups, and the lack of any way to evaluate the quality of services provided means nonprofits often face tough choices when seeking help for training, advocacy, and other needs. → Read More
Funding for Small Nonprofits: State Surpluses Lead to Creative Thinking and Advocacy
In Maryland, nonprofits want to create a $100 million fund designed to give priority to small organizations led by people of color. Across the nation, nonprofits are watching to see if they can promote a similar idea. → Read More
In-Person Advocacy on Capitol Hill for Nonprofit Causes Returns
After a three year absence from Washington, advocates are seeking expanded federal giving incentives, a White House liaison, and more attention to a range of causes that foundations and nonprofits see as crucial to their success in advancing their missions. → Read More
New Report on State Charity Regulation Touches Off Debate About What Helps Nonprofits Thrive
The Philanthropy Roundtable, a group of foundation and donors that advocates for a hands-off approach to regulating charities and giving, says states with too many regulations stifle nonprofit creation. But regulators say the study was sloppy and misleading. → Read More
Gates Foundation to Increase Funding to $8.3 Billion This Year
The grant maker predicts its annual grant budget will grow to $9 billion by 2026. → Read More
New Chair of Rockefeller Brothers Fund Wants the Public to Understand How Philanthropy Works
In an interview, Joseph Pierson, the new chair, and Valerie Rockefeller, the outgoing board leader, discuss general operating support, MacKenzie Scott’s giving approach, whether philanthropy should work to dismantle capitalism, and how the grant maker decided to divest from fossil fuels. → Read More
Foundations and Big Donors Step In to Tackle the Nation’s Nurse Shortage
Grant makers are backing ways to pay educational costs and make the jobs more attractive, especially to people of color, who often don’t choose the profession, and promoting innovations such as the use of robots for routine tasks. → Read More
In Major Shift, Gates Foundation Will Plow Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Into Improving Math Education Nationally
The nation’s biggest private supporter of education says helping kids do better in math will help ensure they graduate high school and get well-paying jobs as adults. That means cutting support for reading, writing, and the arts. → Read More
Salaries of Foundation CEOs Aren’t Keeping Pace With Inflation; Racial Diversity Grows Among Grant Makers
A new study by the Council on Foundations finds that grant makers are boosting benefits to make up for lack of pay raises. Meanwhile, the boards of foundations aren’t keeping up with strides in race and gender diversity of staff. → Read More
Walton Foundation’s Caryl Stern Plans to Step Down After Pandemic Leadership
The nonprofit veteran said she wanted to focus on advancing social change in different ways. Stern’s prior leadership role at Unicef helped her move quickly to advance an ambitious response to the pandemic, which erupted just six weeks after she took over the foundation. → Read More
Ford Offers $80 Million to Boost Nonprofit Resilience in the Face of Global Authoritarianism
The new effort will be focused on Africa, Asia, and South America and comes as nonprofit face threats to the right to protest as well as to the safety of their staffs and the survival of their organizations. → Read More
Foundations and Government Team Up to Pay for Legal Help for Immigrants Facing Deportation
Some say government funds shouldn’t provide such services, but others say it’s a smart fiscal move since families left behind may need more social services. → Read More
Philanthropy Jumps Into the Spotlight at Next Week’s U.N. Meetings
Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Melinda French Gates will be among the leaders of meetings designed to channel new funds to solving problems like the global refugee crisis, threats to democracy, climate change, and pandemic recovery. → Read More
As More Foundations Seek to Influence Public Perceptions, New Approaches Abound
Grant makers are pouring millions of dollars into work to change public attitudes, but some nonprofits say equal effort needs to be put into building social movements that can advance new policies and ideas. → Read More
Foundations, Especially Small Ones, Fared Worse Than the Overall Stock Market Last Year
The average foundation gained 16 percent last year, compared with the nearly 29 percent gain of the Standard and Poor’s index. Wealthier foundations did somewhat better but were still far below the index. → Read More
Ban on Government Funds Puts Pressure on Nonprofit Drug Injection Sites in R.I.
The tiny state is the first one to authorize places where drug users can go without fear of getting arrested, but private donors aren’t eager to do what government won’t do and support the services. → Read More
Safe Injection Sites for Drug Users Are a Tough Sell to Foundations
People are dying in record numbers from overdoses, but grant makers have been tiptoeing around one way to reduce harm from drugs. One nonprofit hopes its lawsuit against the Justice Department will make a difference. → Read More
More Foundations Are Speeding Up Giving Due to Global Challenges
A third of grant makers established after 2010 plan to spend all of their assets by a specific time — far more than the 7 percent of foundations created in the 1990s that plan to do so. → Read More
New Poll Finds Support for Foundations — but Not the Hefty Tax Breaks Their Donors Get
The study also found that people across the political spectrum want to speed money to charities from foundations and donor-advised funds. → Read More
In Unusual Step, Foundations Embrace Organized Labor With $20 Million Plan to Help Workers in the South
Progressive foundations have already raised $14 million after a string of victories at Amazon, Starbucks, and elsewhere demonstrated that workers have the potential to push for big changes. → Read More