5 PM CST Does your board and staff reflect your community? What do people in your community need versus what do your donors want? How are you listening to community members? How are you stewarding gifts? What kinds of grantmaking support do you provide? Who does it serve? The National Standards for Community Foundations by… Read more »
By Sarah K. Nathan, Ph.D., and Heather A. O’Connor As former fundraisers and “pracademics,” we care deeply about supporting the fundraising profession though evidence-based practices. We are also educators energized by young people choosing philanthropy as their careers. So when recent reports on fundraisers’ job satisfaction sounded a familiar alarm about high turnover rates, we… Read more »
In our second post about philanthropy in America, online master’s degree student Amanda Weitman had the opportunity to learn that incarcerated individuals can be philanthropists, giving their time, talent, treasure and testimony to writing a newspaper that informs its readership about life in prison and the good that happens behind bars. A wealth advisor for… Read more »
As Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas and continues to impact the East Coast of the United States, nonprofits may wonder what research says about giving to disasters, while donors may ask how or where they can give in order to have the most impact. The Center for Disaster Philanthropy, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and… Read more »
Earlier this month, a Federal court in Massachusetts unsealed a “whistleblower” lawsuit that had been filed against the American Kidney Fund (AKF) in 2016. It alleged that AKF, a charity which provides financial support for people unable to afford kidney dialysis, favored applications from patients who received treatment at clinics run by its principal corporate… Read more »