National philanthropy cannot pull democracy out of the ditch. Renewal — with community foundations leading the way — must come from the ground up.

I’m struggling right now with the duality of life — days filled with ordinary moments that give the illusion of normalcy despite the near-constant swirl of existential threats. I continue attending to ...

For the Bread & Roses Community Fund, protest is a key method of pushing for social change. Grantees of the $14 million fund have taken to the streets, held signs, chanted slogans, and rallied for ...

Your vision statement is like a participation trophy on your website. It rests there, grammatically correct but strategically ...

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.

When Forbes published this year’s list of America’s 400 richest people, most reactions focused on the staggering wealth of this tiny slice of society. That’s understandable, given that the minimum ...

Foundations are providing more emergency and unrestricted grants; however, most nonprofits surveyed said the response was not enough.

Giving to nonprofits increased by a modest 2.9 percent in the second quarter of 2025, according to new data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. “It looks like we’re seeing some softening at ...

An Exclusive Chronicle Ranking of Who Gives the Most to Charity America’s 50 biggest donors gave to a broad array of causes last year. They supported scholarships to reduce students’ college debt, ...

Jonathan Reckford jokes that before he became CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, he couldn’t really keep a job. In the two decades after he graduated from the University of North ...