Special Report: Technology Survey
How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media to Spark Change
Nonprofit leaders and technology experts offer tips for running a successful social-media activism campaign.
How a Small Group Saved $176,000 in Technology Costs
A few big changes and some tweaks helped a small nonprofit reduce its technology expenses.
How to Move From Paper to Digital Annual Reports
A growing number of nonprofits and foundations seek to save money and get creative by using new formats for detailing finances and accomplishments.
Online Annual Reports: a Sampling
More and more charities are creating all-digital editions of their yearly reports. The new versions make liberal use of audio, animation, and video rather than long,...
About Managing
Nonprofits Gird for Battle on Federal Spending 
Pressure to reduce the federal deficit means nonprofits could face big cuts in government aid this year and next.
Nonprofits Prepare to Fight Limits on Gift Write-Offs
As President Obama seeks to reduce the value of charitable deductions for the third year in a row, nonprofits prepare to oppose the idea.
New Tax Rules Could Aid Charities
Changes in the estate and gift taxes may make wealthy people more willing to give to charity, fund raisers say.
Paying for Results: A New Approach to Government Aid
Social-impact bonds, a new way for donors and governments to finance nonprofits, got a lift when President Obama sought $100-million for the new tool.
How Social-Impact Bonds Work
A new financial tool encourages donors and others to pay for nonprofit programs upfront -- and then be repaid with a bonus when they perform well.
A Theatrical 'Gumbo’ Helps a Small Town Stir Its Economy
A small Georgia town cooks up a homegrown play, a local rebirth, and a recipe for the revival of other struggling communities.
A Georgia Town Shares Its Economic-Revival Recipe
The creators of Colquitt, Ga.'s 'Swamp Gravy' now offer advice to other communities.
Learning From Failure
A new Web site asks international charities to confess their biggest failures.
Tips for Squeezing Just a Little More From a Tight Budget
Nonprofits have found numerous small ways to save money by renegotiating contracts with suppliers and asking professionals to volunteer service.
New on the Job: CEO of the Association of Small Foundations
Henry L. Berman, who ran a family fund for a friend, now leads an organization that helps small foundations.
Exit Interview: Founder of the White House Project
Marie C. Wilson is leaving the group she created to advance women's leadership roles in all fields, especially in civic and political roles.
Exit Interview: CEO of Save the Children
Charles F. MacCormack, a veteran international-aid executive, plans to step aside from leadership of Save the Children.
About Giving
The Quiet Walton Family Fund Creates a Buzz
One of America's richest families is putting more money into environmental causes and continuing its ambitious push to reshape education.
Walton Fund Focuses on Charter Schools
No other philanthropy has done as much as the Walton Family Foundation to make charter schools part of America's landscape.
Walton Family Fund: a Grants Sampler
A look at some of the foundation's recent awards.
Museum Gets $10-Million for Costume Institute
Jonathan Tisch, the Loews Hotels chief, and his wife, Lizzie, donated money to help the Metropolitan Museum of Art better display its costume collection.
Opinion
How Philanthropy Can Best Help the Homeless
Grant makers should finance groups that push for changes in economic and health-care policies that hurt the neediest and not focus on direct services alone, says a New York...
Obama Must Stop Ignoring Nonprofits
President Obama spends a lot of time promoting businesses but puts almost no effort into using his bully pulpit to help nonprofits, writes Ralph Nader, the veteran consumer...
Foundations Need to Take the Long View on Climate Change
Grant makers should move away from promoting a single approach to curb global warming, write two executives at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Why Wallace Foundation’s 'The Principal Story’ Deserves an Oscar Nod
A new infusion of money and approaches could revitalize efforts by nonprofits to make nonfiction films, writes a Chronicle columnist.
How Head and Heart Must Blend in Philanthropy
Philanthropists are free to express their creativity and individuality in any way they want to, but they need to take steps to be sure that freedom does not become an...
More Features
A Pet Project Turns Cameras on People in Developing Countries
A volunteer-led charity uses photography and a toy dog to build bonds between Americans and residents of poverty-ridden nations.
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