Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

As advisors to donors and nonprofits, we know firsthand the impact this wealth can have, and were optimistic that much of it will be deployed through philanthropy or values-aligned investing to address our worlds most pressing problems. Can Women Get Philanthropy Unstuck? In short, philanthropy has a math problem.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 27, 2024

Prest Also, Price Philanthropies gave $10 million to accelerate training for mental-health professionals in California, and Girls Who Invest received $2 million to recruit more women and nonbinary people for careers in the investment-management industry.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Warren Buffett's fortune, now valued at $144 billion, will go to a charitable trust managed by his three children when he dies, and the money must be given away within 10 years. Nati Harnik/AP The Gates Foundation has an endowment of $75.2 Nati Harnik/AP The Gates Foundation has an endowment of $75.2

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 15, 2024

Prest Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Yvonne Owens Ferguson, left, Gloria Jackson-Leathers, and Allison Greenwood Bajracharya, are assuming new roles at the Marion Kauffman Foundation. Also, the Center for Nonprofit Management has installed a new CEO, and the Open Society Foundations promoted its new president from within.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 6, 2023

Rasmuson Foundation Gretchen Guess, executive director of operations at the Providence health-care system in Spokane, Wash., has been tapped as the Rasmuson Foundation’s next president and CEO. Draper Richards Kaplan has hired a former Delaware state official as managing director and a Providence, R.I.,

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 16, 2022

percent of the assets that wealthy foundations ask outside managers to invest go to firms run by women or people of color, according to a report released Thursday, up from 16.6 By Sara Herschander. percent in 2021.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 13, 2025

The report from Exponent Philanthropy features insights on grantmaking, operations, and management of foundations with few or no staff.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Photo by Arno Senoner on Unsplash Should a private foundation be more than a private investment company that uses some of its excess cash flow for charitable purposes? Heron Foundation, New Frontiers in Mission-Related Investing , 2004 At the end of 2024, US private foundations held a record $1.64 trillion in assets.

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Ann Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Effective financial management is critical for your nonprofit to grow and thrive long-term. One important but sometimes overlooked step in future planning is ensuring proper nonprofit financial management. After all, to build up your organization, you first need a solid foundation! Chief financial officer (CFO).

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 4, 2024

GivingData launched a program to help grantmaking foundations optimize their use of the company's enterprise grants management platform.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2025

It is up to all of us involved in philanthropy to tell their story and explain the indispensable role of unrestricted giving in advancing the missions, objectives, and dreams of our causes. Do stockholders instruct management how their money is to be directed? Why are unrestricted gifts beneficial? Of course not. She isnt alone.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By Sheringham Odhiambo , Madeleine Ballard , Ben Pyne & Kathryn Harrison Ten years ago, I (Sheringham) was going door-to-door, providing routine health checks, administering vaccinations, and managing cases of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other debilitating diseases for residents of Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

Women have a unique opportunity to use their position to advance philanthropy and impact to tackle the pressing problems affecting human and planetary health. Why focus on young women in philanthropy? When should we start educating young women in philanthropy? Significant giving by women is already under way.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

JANUARY 26, 2024

Brody is the chief strategy officer for the Foundation for a Healthy St. She serves as a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for strategy development and deployment and directly oversees the Foundation’s grant making, strategic initiatives portfolio, and research and education activities. Brody, Esq., Brody, Esq.

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Candid

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The need to center performance over prestige According to Altrata’s Ultra High Net Worth Philanthropy 2024 report, “[a]lmost 20% of UHNW individuals have a private foundation. Strategic, data-driven storytelling can create lasting emotional connections and visibility beyond traditional philanthropy.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 18, 2024

Entirely separate legislation is needed for donor-advised funds managed by community foundations and commercial gift funds. By Gerry Roll Getty Images Entirely separate legislation is needed for donor-advised funds managed by community foundations and commercial gift funds.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Research consistently shows that Indigenous-managed lands have better climate outcomes than lands managed by other entities. CLUA (a group of six foundations with aligned funding goals) also provides essential expertise that has been instructive both for us at Skoll as well as the entire funding community.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. The Problem With Problem-Solving Solving problems to improve people’s lives has been philanthropy’s raison d’être. Can this vision be applied to philanthropy? Medicine 3.0:

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JUNE 28, 2024

Prest Kresge Foundation Shamar Bibbins will succeed Lois DeBacker as managing director of Kresge’s environment program. Also, the Getty Foundation tapped a new associate director, and the Chicago philanthropist Ann Lurie has died.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2024

Childress, who co-chairs the firm’s DEI Protection Task Force, says confronting such litigation could force nonprofits and philanthropies to face profoundly difficult decisions. The current landscape of challenges to DEI and other race-conscious practices remains highly uncertain for nonprofits and philanthropies. asks Childress. “Is

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Review your data management and protection policies and practices to ensure current compliance and also to manage future risks; strongly consider the importance of privacy rights whether currently captured in the law or not. The factsheet What Is Lobbying Under the 501(h) Election? from Alliance for Justice is a helpful resource.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This article is the third installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. The management of millions of acres of land by Indigenous people, supported by new capital resources, would allow Indigenous cultures and languages to flourish again. In Utah, the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition is managing lands.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 21, 2020

I was recently contacted by Julianne Buck, executive director of the Community Foundation of Grundy County about the Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts I send. Guest Post by Julianne Buck of the Community Foundation of Grundy County. I run a community foundation and it’s difficult to briefly explain what we do. Julianne Buck.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

“Simply put, Black women are the backbone of modern day philanthropy.” So asserts a new book, Portraits of Us: A Book of Essays Centering Black Women Leading Philanthropy , edited by Toya Nash Randall, former board chair of Black Foundation Executives and “curator and catalyst” of Voice. And that’s really what the book is about.”

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Especially as philanthropy has been shifting its focus from individual grants and programs to investing in broader systemic change, addressing confirmation bias becomes all the more urgent: the tools, practices, and cultures for evaluating evidence and learning have not kept pace with this shifting scale.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The "2024 Foundation Operations and Management Report" showed that financial support was up, but racial equity became less of a priority.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 23, 2019

Bean is sharpening its focus on outdoor philanthropy. Reps from the Target Foundation have been calling Minnesota organizations it supports with news of some big changes. Stacy Palmer , the editor at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, agrees. Development Manager, Corporate Partnerships, Grameen America (NYC) 2.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although a growing body of research shows that inexperienced and unprepared first-time managers can be costly for organizations, many individual contributors continue to be promoted into management roles without the proper training, mentoring and support. Allie Markham, inspHire Program Manager, Abe Brown Ministries, Inc.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 17, 2024

F rom Education to Nonprofit Management Nicole’s interest in public service began in high school, where her involvement in the Youth Volunteer Corps sparked her passion. Managing Giving Matters, an online database of Middle Tennessee nonprofits, Nicole oversees a crucial initiative.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Prest David Lynn Photography Owen Ryan is joining Grindr for Equality as managing director of Grindr’s social impact initiative, dedicated to advancing health and human rights. Also, the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation will install its next president on January 1.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Based on a survey of 250 nonprofits, including foundations, international NGOs, public charities, higher education institutions, and health and human services organizations, the report states that 44 percent of nonprofits surveyed said they use the technology for forecasting, budgeting, and payment automation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2019, in Maryland, this is what the Prince Georges County Council and Venture Philanthropy Partners (later known as Youth Invest Partners) were doing in establishing the Nonprofit Capacity Building Program. Community-based organizations are one of the greatest levers for change. For example, when we first met A.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Fineberg of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, lamenting philanthropy’s inability to join forces to amplify and expedite impact. The work began by building the digital infrastructure.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Illustration by The Chronicle; photos from World Food Program USA, Elton John AIDS Foundation Barron Segar, CEO of the World Food Program USA and Anne Aslett, CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 26, 2024

Prest Sean Busher Holly Welch Stubbing, currently president and CEO of E4E Relief, will be the next president and CEO of the National Philanthropic Trust, which manages $21.6 Also, the Huntsman Mental Health Foundation has named a new leader, and Maurice Jones will be the first CEO of the Center for First-Generation Student Success.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Image credit: Wirestock on iStock Philanthropy today is a system of wealth hoarding. Total charitable foundation assets reached $1 trillion in 2019, growing to $1.5 As intersecting crises intensify in our age of racial capitalism and climate colonialism , why are foundations holding onto all of this wealth? No, they don’t.)

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