Nonprofit Trends

Local food banks with fewer volunteers. Community fundraisers falling short. Across the country, a sense that neighbors don’t help neighbors like they used to anymore and a resulting giving crisis.…

If little else is certain about the future of the philanthropic sector, I can confidently predict that over the next few years, fundraisers will be under intense pressure from technological…

Highlights from our conversation with young nonprofit leaders.
For some young people working in nonprofits, their organizations and leaders seem out of touch. Top officials, they believe, are too consumed by their legacy and the hunt for grants. They feel radical change is needed now — in how philanthropy dispenses money, how organizations fight crises,…

Editor’s note: According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity in 2020 committed to giving a total of US$24.7 billion to hospitals, homeless…

More and more funders are adding a feature to their strategy: explicitly soliciting funding from their peers to amplify their own work.

Caroline McLaughlin and Laura Savage reflect on the International Education Funders Group (IEFG) annual conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The small group of us who coordinate philanthropy networks have developed a unique perspective on philanthropy.

Collaborative funds—entities that strategically channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits and community-based organizations—deliver outsized impact across issue areas in the Global South.

We’re all better off when we’re all better off.

The future is having a moment. Philanthropic and nonprofit organizations can use the foresight tools long championed by private industry to build more desirable futures for their communities.

The systemic change exemplars report highlights a combination of eight practices used by Indian nonprofits to create impact at scale.

After serving for two years as under secretary of agriculture for rural development in the Obama administration, Lisa Mensah joined Opportunity Finance Network, a leading network of community development financial institutions, as…

Cryptocurrency is becoming a more familiar way to pay for things. One option is as part of a crowd, through a decentralized autonomous organization. In this relatively new kind of…