Make AI Your Strategic Thought Partner: Here’s How
Nonprofits that use AI for more than routine tasks are seeing the payoff. Five leaders explain how to get started.
By David Wheeler
Contributor
The Charity That Imports Charities
How the GreenLight Fund scales anti-poverty work one city at a time.
By Ben Gose
Senior Editor
5 Funders, 1 Grant Report: Less Paperwork and Better Results
One nonprofit consolidated five grant makers around a shared goal and cut compliance work by 55 percent — reclaiming hundreds of hours for what actually matters.
Funding Small Studies — and Life-Changing Cures
For decades, Cures Within Reach has supported efforts ignored by most other grant makers. The results should make philanthropy pay attention.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Winners of Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge Find Creative Solutions
Many are using a combination of artificial intelligence and the wisdom of their residents.
By Glenn Gamboa
Associated Press
A New Bitcoin Fund Aims to Boost Crypto Gifts to Save the Children
The fund aims to serve as an innovation in both fundraising and in how nonprofits move their money to where it is needed.
By Rasheeda Childress
Senior Editor, Fundraising
A Division of USAID Relaunches as a Nonprofit
The reincarnation of USAID's Development Innovation Ventures is thanks to $48 million raised from two private donors.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
How Unlikely Allies Help One Nonprofit Get Results in a Deep Red State
By staying disciplined and creating broad coalitions, a small criminal justice group has carved out improbable victories in Republican-dominated Alabama
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Wikipedia’s Army of Volunteers Is Its Superpower
The massive online encyclopedia is driven not by a CEO or board but by 250,000 volunteers who rule by democratic consensus and help fund the group.
When Does It Make Sense to Merge?
At the Independent Sector National Summit in Atlanta, nonprofit mergers were a hot topic. Experts shared best practices.
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer
States and Foundations Unite to Bolster National Service Programs
The turmoil at AmeriCorps, which mobilized 1.3 million people over the past decade, has left nonprofits scrambling and prompted new state and philanthropic experiments.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Who Decides? Foundation Staff Look to Outsiders to Steer Grants
The Spark Fund and the NextGen Grantmakers Initiative are among several philanthropies backing participatory grant-making efforts.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Citi Foundation Puts $25 Million Toward Youth Unemployment, AI Labor Disruptions
The banking group’s philanthropic arm is donating $500,000 each to 50 groups worldwide that provide training for low-income youth.
By James Pollard
Philanthropy Reporter, Associated Press
Faith, Generosity, and Justice: Dilnaz Waraich on Muslim American Giving
In this episode, the WF Fund president discusses Islamic principles behind charitable giving, why trust-based philanthropy requires humility, and how interfaith bridge-building strengthens communities.
An Anti-Authoritarian Playbook for Donors
The Democracy Fund’s Joe Goldman offers a three-part framework for donors who are concerned that America is backsliding into authoritarianism.
Black Foundation Leaders in the Age of Trump: Still Leading and Dreaming
Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy provides a record and a time capsule of Black foundation leaders as the backlash against racial equity reaches the highest levels of government.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations