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The Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s latest survey shows that last fiscal year, universities raised the second highest total since CASE started keeping track. We walk through key findings with the report’s author.
To ease affordability for talented students, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation and the Juilliard School spearheaded a matching program that raised $10 million for student scholarships. Here’s an inside look.
Erinn Andrews works with wealthy, but not super-wealthy clients who want to give more thoughtfully but lack the capacity to do so. Here’s how she gets these lagging but well-intentioned donors to step up their games.
Through its prestigious Rome Prize and other offerings, the American Academy in Rome gives artists and scholars a chance to live and work in the heart of the Eternal City. Fundraising, though, is an ever-evolving challenge.
In her annual holiday posts, Karen Brooks Hopkins, president emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, recalls memorable fundraising stories. This year, “The Nutcracker” and a high-profile donor present a unique challenge.
As the largest wealth transfer in history takes place, fundraising trends don’t look so good for the arts. Sector stakeholders are trying to figure out how museums can better cultivate a rising generation of heirs.
Civic Hall, an 85,000-square-foot collaborative work and training facility, opened to the public on November 1. We heard from cofounder Andrew Rasiej about his seven-year effort to bring the project to fruition.
NewsMatch, the largest collaborative fundraising campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S., kicks off on November 1. It leverages growing interest in nonprofit journalism, from big funders and small donors alike.
During this year’s National Estate Planning Awareness Week, guest author Katie Hultquist makes the case for planned giving as a deep and largely untapped well of support for LGBTIQ communities.
Drawing on past bad experiences with donors, guest author Jackson Cooper argues that organizations need to make sure they support their LGBTQ+ fundraisers, especially during a time of increased anti-LGBTQ+ animus.
Despite all the wealth-estimating tools out there, fundraisers are still mostly shooting from the hip when it comes to settling on an ask amount. Guest contributor Larry G. Raff walks us through his long effort to devise a better way.
Research shows women are more likely to give than men, but fundraising efforts do not always speak to women donors. A new set of resources offers advice for more inclusive outreach.
Donors are pouring money into DAFs managed by community foundations at a furious clip. Three community foundation leaders share tips on how nonprofits can put their work in front of philanthropic advisors and donors.
Three years after the pandemic forced nonprofits to send volunteers home, many remain disengaged. A new initiative aims to help organizations secure funder support to replenish the ranks.
For some donors, supporting Intermountain Health’s campaign to enhance care for kids throughout the region is highly personal. For others, it’s become something to rally community around in the wake of the pandemic.
Philanthropy is difficult to navigate. That’s why we’ve produced a series of explainers to demystify the basics. Today, we unpack the heated debate over whether foundations should be giving away more money each year.
Philanthropy is difficult to navigate. That’s why we’ve produced a series of explainers to demystify the basics. Today, we look at pooled efforts to support shared causes and interests.
In her annual end-of-year reflection, Karen Brooks Hopkins, president emerita of Brooklyn Academy of Music, reminds fundraisers to stay optimistic even when things seem destined to fail. Donors, after all, are full of surprises.
Useful data on grantmaking can be hard to come by. In this guest piece, the founders of a social impact data startup share why and how they’re seeking to democratize access to that information.
Fundraisers in these fields see opportunity and uncertainty, and many organizations are hiring to take advantage. Here are some major shifts they’ve highlighted in the funding landscape.
Record levels of charitable giving allowed most nonprofits to persevere during the pandemic, but the layered challenges of recent years have proven too much for many, especially smaller groups and service providers.
Think tanks play a vital role in philanthropy’s efforts to incubate ideas and affect the course of policy. But on the left at least, many think tank leaders find themselves perennially chasing grants.
Nonprofits working toward economic justice face a historic moment in the wake of a pandemic and a racial uprising that exposed deep inequality. We spoke with several fundraisers in the field about how the landscape is shifting.
Ongoing crises and political developments have challenged nonprofits serving immigrants and refugees, but sometimes also pose fundraising opportunities. Unsurprisingly, well-established operations tend to have a leg up.
As it gets harder to fill senior-level jobs, recruiting firms that know their way around the fundraising world are thriving. How do they find clients and deliver results? And how hard is it for newcomers to break in?
Fundraisers for filmmaking reported steady revenue thanks to online events, shifts in their donor bases, and in at least one case, a windfall from a certain novelist-turned-donor. Five organizations filled us in on how they’ve evolved.
New tech often underdelivers in the nonprofit world, but the next wave of AI-related tools has the potential to make philanthropy smarter and even more democratic, according to the authors of a new book on the topic.
A raft of national and global crises have led to surges in giving to humanitarian relief organizations. We spoke to fundraisers at four charities about how they’re navigating an evolving landscape.
Northern California’s charities face a set of unique challenges, made all the more difficult by the ongoing pandemic. We spoke with several fundraisers in the region to see how they have fared in tough times.
“There is probably not a word big enough to say how excited we are about this gift,” says the head of Operation Homefront. With $20 million from MacKenzie Scott, the group will expand the number of military families it serves.