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Do you know?

Larry McGill 13 November 2013

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

Aaron Dorfman 18 October 2013

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

Ted Hart 11 October 2013

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

1 Nick Deychakiwsky 7 October 2013

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

Andrew Watt 20 June 2013

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!

Bradford Smith and Foundation Center 2 April 2013

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

William Schambra 27 March 2013

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

Ken Berger 15 March 2013

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

Alliance magazine 7 February 2013

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

Pablo Eisenberg 10 January 2013

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’, …