The name change could help generate interest in Carnegie, the man, but could also fall flat at a time of simmering distrust ...

Colleges have moved slowly amid calls to remove the names of donors who enabled Jeffrey Epstein from campus buildings.

Dozens of literary entities, from the presenters of the National Book Awards to an organization supporting North Carolina ...

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum is one of the three donors who gave $200 million. His gift will support the construction of a ...

Donors often believe that the smartest way to build a lasting legacy is to create a foundation that lives forever. But the ...

I bet sometime during your last board retreat someone raised the next-generation donor problem: Young donors are skeptical about philanthropy and want to be part of the solution beyond writing a check ...

Melinda French Gates has a message for the world’s major philanthropists: Women’s health is too big a problem to leave to one funder. This week, French Gates committed another $50 million to women’s ...

Earlier this year, a study on higher-education fundraising revealed that 89 percent of the dollars raised came from just 2 percent of donors. Researchers and university fundraisers agree this mix of ...

A quiet Treasury proposal threatens the infrastructure that helps thousands of fledgling nonprofits get off the ground.

Last week the Office of Management and Budget issued a proposal that would overhaul the way that more than 100,000 nonprofits receive grants to carry out government programs. Among other things, the ...

Though we don’t all use the same language for it, every foundation has some purpose (or theory of change) for its work. At the most basic, purpose is whatever effect you are trying to have. A grant ...

In her op-ed “The IRS Is Coming for Groups That Incubate New Charities,” Ema Sol charges that fiscal sponsorship disclosure on Form 990 would amount to a federal “attack” on the charitable sector. Her ...