Donor Advised Funds
Community Foundations and Impact Investing of DAFs
On January 9th, Wall Street Journal blogger Veronica Dagher posted an article highlighting the opportunity for philanthropic donors with Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) to create a “double bottom line.” Dagher points out that donors at large national funds, such as Schwab, are increasingly looking not…
The New Mobile Giver and the Story Behind Millions in Donations by Text for Haiti
A new kind of charitable giver is emerging in the mobile age.
A report underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has found that this donor is younger and more likely to be African-American or Latino than traditional donors. Moreover, new donors often use their mobile phones to…
Why Millennials are the Perfect Donor
In my humble opinion, Millennials bring together all of the aspects of a perfect donor. At Building Tomorrow and in general in my watching of the fundraising world, I have seen Millennials do some amazing things by giving their time, talents, and resources to others and to causes they believe in.…
How Mother Nature Changed Our Plans … But Not Our Message
I’ve long been wary about in-house videos. Because, let’s face it, videos can be tough to pull off. So it was with some trepidation that we decided not just to make our first set of short videos this year, but to feature them at our 25th anniversary annual meeting-indeed, to make them the…
Stuart Comstock-Gay
Stuart Comstock-Gay has spent his career addressing issues of community, democracy and civil rights, both in philanthropy and civil rights work. He is president of the Delaware Community Foundation, the same post he held in Vermont. He has served as executive director of the National Voting Rights…
Why We Went Digital With Our Donor Stories
by PJ Watters
As a community foundation, we are always talking about our role connecting "people who care" with "causes that matter." When we award grants from our funds, people don't usually know who's behind the fund name-and they should! It's time we tell our fund founders' stories. So we…
The Greedy Giver
by Suzanne Skees
The world reverberates with crashing economies and toppling dictatorships from Detroit to Italy, Egypt to Syria; and one vital outcome of these changes is this: Everyday people know more about one another, feel connected through communication, and take action in the collective.…
Giving the Gift of Giving
by Brenda Chumley
On behalf of the entire team at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, I'd like to wish everyone a happy Community Foundation Week! We're pleased to celebrate by sharing how we work with other community foundations across the country.
In 2004, the Greater Kansas City…
The Weekly Fanfare of Philanthropy
by Carl Little
Last week was a quiet one at the Maine Community Foundation — not! Between debriefing about the annual Inspiring Philanthropy evening and preparing for the upcoming Feed a Family campaign, we barely had time to celebrate Community Foundation Week.
The Maine Community Foundation…
Three Big Ideas from the World's Only Secretariat for Philanthropy
By: Dan Hymowitz and Heather Lord
In America, the debate lumbers on about the best way to coordinate the philanthropic sector and the U.S. government. Meanwhile, one post-conflict West African country has jumped right in — the Liberia Philanthropy Secretariat is the fruit of collaboration between…
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