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Raise your hand if you know the answer to the following question: How many grant dollars did US foundations award in 2011? Anyone? Let me ask a different question. If you needed to find the …
Community Foundations Hall of Fame celebrates ten outstanding initiatives
We all know our sector too often falls short of our own highest aspirations. So it is even more important to celebrate excellence when we see it. Many community foundations work with underserved communities, partnering …
Council on Foundations’ 2013 Community Foundations Conference: local impact on an international scale
The Council on Foundations’ 2013 Fall Conference for Community Foundations, held on 22-25 September in San Diego, marked a unique opportunity for CAF America to speak directly with community foundation decision-makers, thought-leaders and strategists to …
San Diego hosts 2013 Fall Conference for Community Foundations
Sunny San Diego was welcoming to the roughly 1,100 participants of the Council on Foundations’ 2013 Fall Conference for Community Foundations, held on 22-25 September. Conference committee chair John Kobara, COO of the California Community …
Giving USA: more of the same
It’s more of the same for giving, which isn’t a bad thing. Giving USA 2013, which covers giving levels for 2012, was released today, and the results are what you’d probably expect: a small increase …
How do I general support thee, let me count the ways!
With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, I could not resist paraphrasing her famous poem for an appeal to foundations to stop trying to be so unique. But, I promise you, this will be the shortest …
In the fight over big vs. small government, philanthropy has forgotten the poor
Philanthropy’s standing with the policymakers in Washington, DC, has reached an all-time low. A prime reason foundations have earned that status is that they have lost sight of their primary obligation to support the poor. …
Charity Navigator introduces expanded methodology that examines results reporting
With more than 1.8 million NGOs, $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in annual revenues and one in ten of all US workers, America’s non-profit sector has become the largest in the history of the world. …
Sandy’s ill wind apparently blows some good to US non-profits
US charitable giving is estimated to have grown 1.7 per cent in 2012 from the previous year. However, had it not been for Super Storm Sandy in October, it might well have gone down, according …
Non-profits should focus on gun control – not donor tax breaks
In his 21 December column for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and an outspoken critic of US foundations, attacks the ‘absurdity of the non-profit world’s priorities’, …
