Giving
A Foundation Risks All of Its Endowment on Creating Jobs
The F.B. Heron Foundation has attracted attention with its effort to put all of its investments and grants into projects and companies that fight poverty.
About Giving
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Heron Fund Takes Radical Path on Investing
As the fund moves its $274-million endowment into impact investments, its most controversial approach is its shift way from a strict asset-allocation plan.
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Charities Say Foundation Applications Too Burdensome
While 77 percent of donors have taken steps to simplify things, fundraisers say they don't feel much of a change, a new study finds.
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Rockefeller Pledges $100-Million to Help 100 Cities Cope With Crises
To mark its 100th anniversary, the fund is helping urban areas withstand shocks caused by climate change, terrorism, or other challenges.
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Charities Want to Know Why Grants Are Awarded, Says Survey
If they knew more about the decision-making process, nonprofit leaders say, they wouldn't waste their time on proposals that will likely go nowhere.
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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Give USC $70-Million
The two music producers gave $35-million each to start a program to help students become entrepreneurs.
About Managing
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Overhead Costs Pose Dilemma for Charities
A growing number of nonprofit experts are trying to get charities to focus on their results when they appeal to donors, but most groups say their supporters care just as much...
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What Nonprofits Say About Spending and How Donors Respond
A Chronicle review of the statements four charities made in recent fundraising letters about how much they spend on their programs.
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IRS Tea Party Scandal Could Deter Advocacy and Limit Charity Oversight
The disclosure that the tax agency singled out applications from conservative advocacy groups for extra scrutiny could also damage the agency's ability to regulate...
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ProPublica Launches Online Tool to Search Nonprofit Tax Forms
A new service provides free access to a decade's worth of data on 615,000 charities.
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Cancer Charity Shrinks Its Revenue
Less than two weeks after the relief charity World Help said it had overstated its revenue by 1,400 percent, another group is revising its revenue statement, potentially by...
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Planning Makes Charities More Nimble in Disasters
Setting up emergency funds, readying crisis communications, and building ties with local officials can help your organization before the next disaster strikes.
Other Features
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New Executive Director Promotes Life-and-Death Conversations
Harriet Stern Warshaw is taking over the Conversation Project, a new nonprofit that wants to help people talk more openly about their end-of-life wishes.
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How a Scrappy Literacy Charity Met Ambitious Goal 5 Years Early
John Wood, founder of Room to Read, says by talking about solutions and taking creative approaches to getting publicity, his charity hopes that by 2015 it will have reached...
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Bird-Watching Program Aids Dementia Patients
The Audubon Society and a nurse have figured out a way to calm Alzheimer's patients and lift their spirits.
About Fundraising
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Same-Sex Couples Get New Attention From Fundraisers
As more states legalize gay marriage, nonprofits see a source of new money — but some donors say they have been put off by a lack of sensitivity by some charities.
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Raising Money From Gay Couples: Advice From the Experts
Establish an anti-bias policy for your organization and think hard about how to deal with tax deductions for couples whose marriages aren't recognized by the federal tax...
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Donor-Advised Funds Keep Up Rapid Growth
The funds are now worth over a third more than they were before the recession started, a Chronicle study finds.
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Assets and Grants at the 10 Biggest Donor-Advised Funds
A comparison of their assets at the end of the 2012 fiscal year and how much they gave in grants.
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Sizing Up the Biggest Donor-Advised Funds
See the change in total assets at the 10 largest funds between the end of the 2012 fiscal year and now.
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How The Chronicle Compiled Its Survey of Donor-Advised Funds
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Fundraisers' Pay Jumped 8% Last Year, the Most in 6 Years
The median salary increased to $71,100, according to a new study by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, though the gap between men's and women's pay is still big.
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Fastest-Growing Athletic Fundraisers Focus on Loyal Donors
Charities learn that creating meaningful ways for athletes to connect with a cause and enlisting retailers to boost giving can increase revenue.
Opinion
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Too Many Charities Don’t Benefit From Donor-Advised Fund Boom
Congress should require peope with donor-advised funds to distribute at least 20 percent of the assets each year—or at least give more generous deductions to people who...
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Scandal Should Prompt IRS to Clarify Rules
To protect the integrity of groups pursuing nonpartisan activities, it's important for the tax agency to be clearer about just what kinds of politicking social-welfare groups...
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Hershey Trust Settlement Shows What Matters on Board Duties
The Pennsylvania attorney general took a high standard in deciding whether anybody had breached fiduciary duty at the $9-billion trust and said nobody broke the law amid...
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Attorney General Inquiry Into Hershey School Resolves Little
The conclusions, which absolve leaders of wrongdoing, are hard to square with what journalists and advocacy groups have reported.
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Documentary Paints a Bleak but Fair Picture of Detroit’s Decline
The filmmakers' starting premise was that entrepreneurs were rebuilding the city against all odds. But what they found was a cautionary tale about the impact of globalization...
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Philanthropy Shouldn’t Jump on Immigration Overhaul
If the system changes, the losers may be many of the very desparate people worldwide whom grant makers most want to help.
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What Young Wealthy Donors Want
People in their 20s and 30s want to take risks and welcome chances for hands-on involvement in philanthropy.
