Since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday, it has caused extensive damage totaling at least in the tens of billions of dollars, according to analysts. The deadly storm hit Florida’s…
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A new National Center for Family Philanthropy report authored by Betsy Erickson, Piyush Tantia, and Nicholas A. Tedesco finds that high motivation to give often is not enough to inspire…
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For decades, Faye Schuett, alongside her late wife Linda Seaver Burnett, has championed LGBTQ+ rights, blending LGBTQ+ activism with philanthropy to create lasting change. Her deep commitment to equality has…
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Nearly one week after the Supreme Court delivered its Johnson v. Grants Pass ruling, housing justice funders from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., during the 2024 Funders Institute to discuss…
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California’s homeless service nonprofits have a problem: They aren’t getting paid on time, and it’s making it even harder for them to get people off the street. California’s homeless service…
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Catastrophic. Deadly. Life-threatening. These are words used to describe the strongest hurricane to affect the United States this year. Making landfall near Perry, Florida, as a Category 4 storm, Hurricane Helene caused…
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Transformative change in disaster prevention requires big thinking. Just as some of philanthropy’s biggest successes, such as marriage equality to vaccines, were once thought of as inconceivable moonshots, so too…
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Click here for more.Disaster philanthropy in response to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes is on the rise, just as the events themselves happen in greater frequency. Donors want to help…
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For an industry that works for the common good, the nonprofit world can be unkind. There’s the elbow thrown while jockeying for a donor’s attention. The disparaging remark about a…
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Click here for more.On June 9, 2021, a rarity occurred in Congress: a new bill managed to reach across the aisle. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the Accelerating Charitable Efforts…
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Click here for more.In the past few years, community foundation DAFs, or donor advised funds, have received increased attention from the charitable sector, due to their growing popularity – and their lack of regulation. Unlike…
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Click here for more.When Se-ah-dom Edmo, executive director of Seeding Justice, first joined the foundation in 2019, the board made it clear that they wanted to change how the organization managed its donor-advised…