August is celebrated as Black Philanthropy Month. In honor of this month and black philanthropy, we’re posting an article by Dr. Tyrone Freeman about Madam C.J. Walker’s philanthropy. This article originally appeared in Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. By Dr. Tyrone Freeman Madam C. J. Walker’s philanthropy is typically… Read more »
I’ve talked about impact investing and its baseline principles in a previous blog post. Now, I’m going to dive into what programs make good investment opportunities for impact investing. For large dollar donors and foundations, this strategy could be game-changing; instead of making grants out of their endowment dollars and seeing little return, they could… Read more »
By Julia Kohl Julia Kohl is a development consultant for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, a nonprofit theater company in the Boston, MA area, and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in philanthropic studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. For the Spring 2019 semester, she joined Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog and fellow graduate student Taylor… Read more »
If you’re at all like me, you’ve got a pitiful savings account and a sad, sad start to a retirement account. I’ll admit this problem is largely of my own making, but I’m guessing you can empathize. So bear with me. Even with those pennies you’ve been able to save, you’re thinking about how to… Read more »
We’ve featured multiple different community foundations who utilize The Fund Raising School for different classes and in various structures. Many of these organizations work with Liz Jackson, associate director at The Fund Raising School, to bring in faculty members to teach to the nonprofits that the foundations support. Many of the featured foundations come from… Read more »