Where Most Needed

Smaller Educational Institutions Falling Short in Fundraising

Big research institutions capture most of the growth in fundraising as its graduates hit the jackpot. 

Salvation Army Embraces Centralized, Corporate Marketing

The largest charity in the US (in terms of private suport) ventures outside its comfort zone in the new century's fundraising environment. 

Salvation Army Extracts Greenmail from Greenpeace

Challenging a huge, unexpected bequest on a technicality, Salvation Army succeeds in reducing Greenpeace share by $6 million. 

Harvard's Hospitals Gear Up to Go National

Beefed up development staffs generate record results, going after new money using a range of approaches from traditional golf events to small dinners and tours with a focus on venture medicine. 

Sidebar: Benefactors Behaving Badly

Pledges are not the only area where donors put charities on the spot.

Preventing Perfidious Pledges

Some large institutions are trying various ways to protect themselves from donors who don't take their pledges seriously. 

Millionaires, Raise Your Hands

A report on charity by the wealthy leads me to speculate on what the top of the US wealth pyramid really looks like. 

Hawaii Foundation Selling Off Affordable Housing to Benefit School

Tenants in the 857 units are suing because the nonprofit owner wants to prepay its HUD mortgage to release it from a commitment to affordable rents, and a board member (son of the founder) is speaking out against it. 

Donors Get the Deduction, Charities Get the Headaches

Donors get charitable deductions for toxic waste dumps and land with unexploded ordinance—if they can find a charity willing to go along. 

Before and After Death, The Rich are Getting Stingier

Bill Gates & Warren Buffett are countering a trend toward diminished charitable giving by America's wealthiest families.