On the opinion pages of philanthropy sector publications, a debate has raged about the right foundation payout rate for “this moment of crisis.” Since the 1970s, the received wisdom among many of the largest, most influential foundations is that the best approach is to allocate just over 5% of the institution’s assets for grantmaking and overhead each year. The actual annual payout rate for American foundations is somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 to 8% when smaller foundations are included. Some prominent philanthropists and activists have urged their colleagues to “overspend” in light of the country’s compounding crises. Some have even called for new legislation temporarily mandating payout rates as high as 10%. That means, since March, the range of what is considered responsible foundation payout has, in the most optimistic scenario, expanded a whopping 2 to 3%.
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Beyond Buzzwords: In Stressful Times, These Funders See Hope in Intersectionality
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09/21/2017
Mark Ruffalo’s Non-Profit Got a Nod for Work Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
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09/21/2017
Groundswell Fund honored with 2017 NCRP Impact Award for ‘smashing silos’
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09/19/2017
Repealing federal estate tax could cause declines in large donations
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09/18/2017
WWNO – All Things New Orleans: September 14, 2017
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09/15/2017
Estate tax is powerful incentive for charitable donations like ISU’s $50 million pledge
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09/13/2017
Which Inclusive Funder is Being Honored by NCRP for Smashing Silos?
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09/11/2017
Cash, Speed, and Trust
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09/08/2017
The Meyer Memorial Trust: Reckoning with Race
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09/08/2017
Foundation for Louisiana to receive Mover and Shaker Award at the 2017 NCRP Impact Awards in New Orleans
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09/07/2017
The 2020 Census Is in Trouble and Needs Our Help
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09/07/2017
In Troubled Times, Here Are Four Funders Standing With Vulnerable Communities
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09/07/2017
NCRP Names 2017 Impact Award Winners
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09/07/2017
Groundswell Fund to Be Honored with 2017 NCRP Impact Award
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09/07/2017
Measuring Impact: How Do You Assess the Effects of Giving?
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08/18/2017
‘An Intolerable Failure’: How Nonprofits Responded to Charlottesville
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08/08/2017
Southern Strategy: Can National Funders Better Engage a Growing Region?
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07/26/2017
Not Just Money: Where is the Money Going?
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07/24/2017
Covering Philanthropy in Changing Times
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07/06/2017
Estate Taxes and Charity
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07/05/2017
Go Behind Celebrities’ Ceremonial School Donation Checks
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06/28/2017
Change in the South Requires Focus on Wealth Building, Report Finds
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06/27/2017
GuideStar’s Reversal on ‘Hate’ Flags Sparks Debate Over Role of Charity-Information Sites
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06/23/2017
70 Experts Share Their Best Advocacy Planning, Strategy, Skills and Training Tips
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06/12/2017
As GOP Eyes Estate Tax, Muted Pushback From Charity Leaders
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06/07/2017
The Third Wave Fund Is Funding The People Usually Overlooked By Big Philanthropy
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05/25/2017
Experts Press Foundations to Engage in Health-Care Debate
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05/18/2017
A Revamped ACLU Takes on Today’s Fights
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05/11/2017
A gem at the COF conference: A session on the Sustainable Development Goals
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05/03/2017
5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era
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05/02/2017
Who’s at the Board Table?
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05/02/2017
On Gender and Race, Change Is Slow
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04/27/2017
Microgrants Make Big Impacts for Local Communities
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04/27/2017
Report: South Lags in Philanthropy, Tops in Need
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04/17/2017
Five Costs To Cutting Arts Programs
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04/14/2017
Where in the World is Big Philanthropy? Not in the Deep South
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04/11/2017
Alumnae invoke social change after graduation
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04/10/2017
Report: Southern non-profits struggle to get large-scale funding
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04/07/2017
Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South, Study Finds
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03/27/2017
Next Gen Voices
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03/22/2017
Grant Makers Blanket Capitol Hill Amid Deep Worries Over Taxes and Spending Cuts
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03/21/2017
Eliminating the NEA Will Disproportionately Hurt Communities of Color
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03/15/2017
Back From the Margins: Behind a New Call to Boost Funding for Black-Led Organizations
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03/14/2017
What’s So Special About 5%?
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03/13/2017
Time for Philanthropy to Take Bold Action: Invest in Policy Change
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03/09/2017
How to Fund Social Change in an Increasingly Networked and Volatile Environment
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02/27/2017
Making News in D.C.: Qorvis MSLGROUP, NCRP, Glen Echo Group and Vox Media
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02/23/2017
Georgia Charities Risk Losing Millions to One Philanthropy’s Risky Investment Strategy
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02/08/2017
Do arts grant-givers overlook artists of color?
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02/08/2017
The National Interest: All Money Ain’t Good Money: The Role of White Foundations in Social Justice Movements
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02/07/2017
NCRP highlights community values in strategic framework
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02/06/2017
With Smart Philanthropy, Anything Is Possible
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02/06/2017
Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice
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01/26/2017
Big-Donor Dollars: How Many Do Calif. Causes Actually Receive?
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01/24/2017
Letters to the Editor: Criticizing Foundations Is Not Only Way to Produce Change
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01/23/2017
Report: Big Decade for Philanthropy Doesn’t Translate to Social Justice
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01/18/2017
Pittsburgh’s Sarah Scaife Foundation has Trump ties
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01/17/2017
Big Foundations Make Money, but Charitable Giving is Down
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01/12/2017
Philanthropy Booms, But Giving for Social Justice Stays Flat
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01/10/2017
For Philanthropy, Trump Era Is Time to Double Down to End Injustice
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12/27/2016
5 Ways Foundations And Wealthy Donors Can Combat The Trump Agenda
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12/20/2016
The Futurist: Alberto Ibargüen and the Remaking of the Knight Foundation
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12/16/2016
NCRP Study Faults Foundations for Underfunding Social Justice Philanthropy
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12/02/2016
Philanthropy is Neglecting Poor Communities, But What About the Influx of New Funders?
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11/29/2016
Foundation Watchdog Acquires Bolder Giving
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11/16/2016
Wealthy Donors Look To Solve Financial Crisis In Kalamazoo, Mich.
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11/15/2016
With Yet Another Leader Already on Her Way Out, Where Is This Big Foundation Headed Next?
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10/30/2016
MSU, Michigan Nonprofit Association partner for executive MBA program
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10/27/2016
When a Foundation Board Gets in the Way of Community Impact
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10/27/2016
How new breed of charities is changing the face of giving
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10/15/2016
Eye in the sky: the billionaires funding a surveillance project above Baltimore
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10/05/2016
States May Follow In Cracking Down On Trump Foundation
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09/19/2016
Team Trump Spooked by Charity Probe
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08/31/2016
3 Things Foundations Can Do About Predatory Lending
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08/31/2016
Baltimore Surveillance Effort Betrays a Community Fund’s Mission
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08/30/2016
Donors promise $70M to aid Kalamazoo, but at what cost?
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08/26/2016
Billionaire donors Laura and John Arnold support far more in Maryland than police surveillance
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08/17/2016
Leonardo DiCaprio, the Malaysian Money Scandal and His “Unusual” Foundation
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08/17/2016
Leo’s charity under microscope amid ties to $3 billion scam
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08/07/2016
Shaking up or short-changing rural?
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08/05/2016
Intersecting Marginalities: The False Dichotomy of Rural Communities vs. Communities of Color
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08/01/2016
Report Looks at OCF’s Diversity Work
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07/27/2016
It’s Time for a Strategy on Rural Philanthropy, Not Just Shaming
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07/22/2016
Dwyane Wade’s nonprofit should up its game, foundation watchdogs say
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07/21/2016
The Future of Philanthropy
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07/19/2016
Police Shootings Since Ferguson Put Foundations to the Test
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07/12/2016
With Millions at Stake, Some Foundations Slash Consulting Budgets
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07/11/2016
Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy: A Work in Progress
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07/10/2016
Black activists hope killings prompt more action from whites
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07/10/2016
Activists ask more white urgency to killings
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07/07/2016
Who Really Benefits When Billionaires Give Away their Wealth?
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06/26/2016
Report Says Oregon’s Largest Charity Needs To Increase Help To Marginalized Communities
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06/23/2016
A Call to Action for Philanthropists in the Wake of Orlando
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06/23/2016
Report On the Oregon Community Foundation
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06/22/2016
Report Assesses Oregon’s Largest Charitable Foundation
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06/22/2016
Diversity study cites Oregon Community Foundation’s ‘mixed’ record
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06/18/2016
L.A. education foundation became a lucrative source of income for USC’s Pat Haden and his relatives
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06/10/2016
Commentary: Smarter Philanthropy Will Aid St. Louis
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06/02/2016
Aaron Dorfman – Advocating for Nonprofits – Episode 007
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05/26/2016
The Climate Change Fight Cannot Be Won With White Liberal America Alone
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05/23/2016
How to squander $52m of charitable money in 6 months
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05/03/2016
The Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund Receives National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Honor
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04/13/2016
Assessing Community Giving, Grassroots Needs
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03/14/2016
Impact Award for Area Consumer Health Foundation
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03/14/2016
Three California Grantmakers Win Prestigious Impact Award
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03/08/2016
Everglades Trust Ads Call Attention to Foundation/Industry Relations
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03/04/2016
Effort to Shame Mott Foundation Is Well-Timed, Expert Says
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02/29/2016
3rd Generation of Walton Family Makes Sharp Turn in Giving
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01/31/2016
Who Should Pay for the Arts in America?
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01/28/2016
Another Big Grant Maker Redirects Its Giving Toward Poverty
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01/17/2016
Should Foundations be Subject to “Sunshine” Laws?
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01/12/2016
Philanthropy Is on a Collision Course With Presidential Campaign Politics
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01/07/2016
Through a Glass a Little Less Darkly: 2015 Philanthropic Transparency Highlights
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01/06/2016
A City in Remission: Can the “Grand Bargain” Revive Detroit?
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01/03/2015
Philanthropists should spend more on criminal-justice reform
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12/22/2015
Philanthropy Awards, 2015
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12/14/2015
Report: Knight Foundation Needs Greater Focus on Equity
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12/10/2015
New Online Site to Function as a ‘Yelp’ for Grant Makers
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12/10/2015
“Bright and Shiny” Syndrome: Philamplify Looks at the Knight Foundation
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12/02/2015
How New Thinking Is Shaking Up Old Money
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11/23/2015
Criminal Justice Reform Is Gaining Steam. What Role Has Philanthropy Played?
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11/23/2015
The First Woman Of Women: How Melinda Gates Became The World’s Most Powerful Advocate For Women And Girls
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11/19/2015
In memory of Rick Cohen
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11/18/2015
Sector Crusader Rick Cohen Dies Suddenly
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11/18/2015
Former Jersey City official Cohen dies; credited with waterfront boom
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11/17/2015
Rick Cohen, Rural Philanthropy Advocate and Journalist, Dies
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11/09/2015
Markets, Equity & School Choice Taken On by Hazen Foundation
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11/05/2015
New Head of Key Congressional Committee Seen as Friend to Nonprofits
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10/28/2015
A Role Model for Social Justice Giving in Michigan?
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10/28/2015
Kresge’s Focus on Solving Big Problems Shows Promising Signs, Watchdog Says
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10/20/2015
Let’s Require All Big Foundations to Let More Nonprofits Apply for Grants
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10/08/2015
Meyer Trust takes on the E word
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10/08/2015
The NCRP Debate on Market Approaches to Education Reform
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09/09/2015
Patagonia Rallies for an Earth Tax
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08/17/2015
MacArthur and Ford Foundations Diverge on Strategy
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06/29/2015
Sorry, Walmart: Charter Schools Won’t Fix Poverty
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05/27/2015
Nimble Response to Community Needs
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05/21/2015
Brooklyn Foundation Receives Award
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05/18/2015
What’s It Like for Environmental Groups
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05/08/2015
Walton Family Meets Needs in Conservation
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05/05/2015
Walton Foundation’s Market-Based Initiatives
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05/03/2015
‘Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A Philanthropic Opportunity’
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04/30/2015
Buying Elections is Charity
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04/27/2015
The Philanthropy of Peace
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04/16/2015
Standing O is at it again!
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03/30/2015
The Conservative Group Behind Scott Walker’s Political Rise
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03/13/2015
White Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice
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03/04/2015
Sector Not Paying To Develop New Leaders
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03/02/2015
Systems Change Approach as Top Trend
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02/19/2015
Philanthropic Activism on the Ferguson Commission: An Interview with The Deaconess Foundation’s Starsky Wilson
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01/20/2015
What’s Next for Nonprofits
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12/22/2014
Transparency in Philanthropy: Get on Board or Get Run Over
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12/18/2014
Foundation Helps Get $20 Million Windfall
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11/25/2014
The Case Foundation on Impact Investing
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11/19/2014
Foundation’s Mission Investing Pays Off
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09/24/2014
Philanthropy and Democracy
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09/21/2014
Green Movement Gets Brown
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09/21/2014
Trustees Pay Is Challenged
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08/11/2014
Get Unsolicited Proposals Heard
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08/06/2014
Net Neutrality and Civil Rights Groups
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08/05/2014
Hoping William Penn avoids more upheaval
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08/01/2014
IRS, MN AG Asked To Investigate Bremer
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07/31/2014
Another Departure from William Penn
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07/29/2014
California Endowment Rated Well
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07/29/2014
Bremer Foundation calls claims ‘baseless’
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07/22/2014
Foundation Trustees Shouldn’t Be Paid Millions
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07/17/2014
Philanthropy Watchdog Questions Minn. FDN Trustee Compensation
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07/15/2014
Hewlett Bets $50-Million
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07/13/2014
Corporate Cash Donations Creep Up
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07/11/2014
Bremer Must Clean Up Its Act
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07/02/2014
Trustees’ actions raise some serious questions
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07/01/2014
Investigate Bremer Foundation salaries
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06/30/2014
Watchdog Seeks Probe of Minn. Fund’s Booming Trustee Pay
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06/27/2014
Bremer trustees paying themselves too much
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06/25/2014
Bush Foundation charts new course – again
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06/17/2014
SoCal Charities Mobilize Behind Blue Ribbon Commission
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06/16/2014
Watchdog Groups Multiply and Demand More
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06/10/2014
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation receives award
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05/22/2014
How A Zagat Style Website Will Increase Accountability
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05/22/2014
How A Private Foundation With Student Loan Ties Became A Force In Higher Education
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05/21/2014
5 Reasons Philanthropy Will Benefit from Philamplify
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05/06/2014
NCRP launches Philamplify
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05/06/2014
NCRP Launches Assessment Website
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05/06/2014
New Website Invites Feedback on Grant Makers
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04/11/2014
Charitable giving firm sees surge
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01/01/1970
Five ways foundations and wealthy donors can combat the Trump agenda
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