Philanthropy (Other)

In the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s three-part series, president Phil Buchnan revists several questions he wrote about in 2022. In part three he tackles two questions: How can funders best…

More than grants, donations, or volunteer hours, public trust and community engagement are the currency of the nonprofit sector. The public’s belief that nonprofits will “do the right thing” is…

Preventing mission creep is a common problem for growing nonprofits. While new opportunities bring with them the chance to do more and serve a wider group of constituents, expansion without…

The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events is prompting some philanthropists to reconsider their disaster responses. The question is whether to fund long-term recovery and resilience rather than…

The Northwest Area Foundation has been a longtime funder of Native communities. But it wasn’t until we showed up as listeners and learners, and not as experts, that our effectiveness…

Our nation faces a severe and worsening housing affordability and supply crisis. Elevated mortgage interest rates, rising home prices, and a record-low supply of available homes are impacting local housing…

It’s not always clear how to develop a strategy for disaster philanthropy for high-impact donors. The Center for Disaster Philanthropy recently held a webinar titled “Hurricane Helene: How funders can…

While Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) have been around for nearly 100 years, their popularity has soared recently – with the number of accounts up 9x in the past 10 years. DAFs…

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…

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…

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…