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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Today, nonprofit fundraising and especially large capital campaigns emphasize naming opportunities to attract seven-, eight-, and nine-figure donations from high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Less than one percent of major gifts are offered anonymously , not surprisingly, as fundraisers encourage public acts of charity.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Whether those revenues are just to portray the executive director as a fundraiser—this is good clout, social capital in this nonprofit world—or is it about the people that [are] being served? And I think sometimes we lose that aspect. AQ: Dean Spade, the lawyer who does trans law, he had a great point. GoFundMe campaigns and the like.