For starters, why not have Hollywood team up with teachers to make education more entertaining?
Movie star and comedian Tiffany Haddish, left, is a former foster child who now advocates on behalf of foster children.
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By not attaching any strings to the money, championing representation and generally taking care to respect nonprofit leaders, she’s following five best practices.
“Science” makes people think optimistically about the future.
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When you ask Americans what the word ‘science’ brings to mind, a majority respond ‘hope.’ Using this built-in brand can help communicate important science messages.
Howard University, in Washington, D.C., recently got its finances in order.
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Due to a ‘once-in-a-century crisis,’ five big foundations are spending more of their assets on grants than usual. Some are issuing bonds to finance their extra support for nonprofits.
Richmond’s towering 1890 Robert E. Lee statue is transformed by protests following the killing of George Floyd.
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A Richmond court says the city cannot remove its controversial Robert E. Lee sculpture because an 1890 land deed gave the Confederate monument ‘to the people’ of Virginia, not its government.
Volunteers distributing food in Valley Stream, New York.
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Food pantries, the providers of services to the homeless and similar organizations now face enormous challenges.
The Ford Foundation, under Darren Walker’s leadership, is joining with other foundations to give more money away.
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A careful review of more than 200 letters written by the wealthy people who signed the Giving Pledge over its first decade suggests a big contradiction.
Joan Kroc gave much to charity during her life and in her will after inheriting the McDonald’s fortune.
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Far fewer Americans include plans for bequests to nonprofits in their wills than give to charity on a regular basis. The pandemic could be a good reason to change that.
The demand for services nonprofits offer is surging.
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With colleges and universities having moved their instruction online due to COVID-19, an ecologist shows how service learning can take place in the virtual world as well.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt enjoying after-luncheon conversation with patients of the Warm Springs Foundation.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal battle with polio, and his steady hand while overseeing a national eradication campaign, highlights decisive leadership against a virus that terrified America.
Volunteers distributing drive-thru iftar meals outside an Islamic center in Falls Church, Virginia.
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Social distancing has made giving to the poor – an obligation under Islam – harder this Ramadan. Meanwhile Muslim nonprofits are feeling the strain of the economic downturn.
Are they spending as much on the needs of others as the rest of us?
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Reliable data on charitable giving is hard to come by. But based on the information available, very rich people are at least as generous as everyone else.
Remote worship is becoming the norm during the pandemic.
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Most Christian churches were relying heavily on ‘collection plates’ to pay their bills before the pandemic struck. And less than half were doing any online fundraising as of 2018.
Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University