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Last year, United Philanthropy Forum and our members across the country fought to prevent federal tax reform from causing harm to the charitable sector. Unfortunately, the final tax bill passed by Congress significantly reduces charitable giving incentives, which many...
There are many reasons why an individual might choose to make a donation. An old fundraising adage says that one of the top reasons why people give to charity is that they were asked. More recently, neuroscience has shown that being generous produces positive brain...
I grew up in a small Midwestern farm town and have always had a passion for animals. I moved to Seattle in the 1970s and fell in love with the outdoors. These interests led me to volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation center, where I faced the devastating truth that...
This post first appeared on the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group website. It was published following the release of the CEP report, Relationships Matter: Program Officers, Grantees, and the Keys to Success. Let me begin by stating the obvious. I love being a...
As a reader of this blog, you probably have one or more philanthropic focus areas about which you are most passionate — education, healthcare, the arts, human trafficking, or another pressing social or environmental issue. You may not realize, though, that disability...
This post from historian Lars Trägårdh originally appeared on HistPhil as part of its ongoing forum on philanthropy in Sweden. It is re-posted here as part of CEP’s blog series on international perspectives on philanthropy. Compared with most other Western...
This post originally appeared on the Glasspockets "Transparency Talk" blog. Philanthropy invests billions of dollars into charitable causes each year. According to Foundation Center, foundations gave an estimated $59.28 billion in 2016. That’s a tremendous amount of...
This article was originally published on India Development Review. You can read the original here. Strategic philanthropy was born a generation ago to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of philanthropy over the past century. Moving beyond traditional...
In The Giving Journey: Guiding New Donors to Actualized Philanthropy, our new report at Open Impact, we look into the mindsets and motivations of new ultra-high-net-worth donors. Specifically, we wanted to know: why do Silicon Valley’s “new donors” give? What barriers...
Twenty years ago, before I worked in philanthropy, if you had asked me to explain the fundamental purpose of a foundation, I would have given a simple answer: to give money to nonprofits. That was naive. After joining the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation in 2003,...