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Foundation giving remained steady in 2023. What’s the outlook for 2024? 

Candid

Every year, Candid fields the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. private and community foundations to share information about their grant payments and grantmaking practices. Every year, Candid fields the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. The median community foundation awarded 6.6%

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Minter-Jordan Picked As New CEO At AARP

The NonProfit Times

In 2020, Myechia joined 18 other Black and Brown executives in Massachusetts as a founding leader of The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF) to provide philanthropic support to community groups and coalitions fighting systemic racism and racial inequity in the Commonwealth.

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Harvard’s Top Development Officer To Step Down

The NonProfit Times

During the run-up to her resignation several major donors to the university, including hedge fund managers Bill Ackman and Kenneth C. Griffin, Access Industries founder Leonard Blavatnik and others all expressed concern or announced plans to suspend donations. Those three alone had donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the school.

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Creating Public Transparency: Bringing GuideStar to Israel

NTEN

In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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One-on-One with Elana Frank: Founding and Scaling a Nonprofit

Allegiance Group

We recently spoke with Elana Frank about her experience founding and scaling the Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF). Her background at a community-organizing nonprofit in New York and a master’s degree in nonprofit management gave her a solid foundation for starting a nonprofit. But even so, she’s had much to figure out along the way.

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Visit to Qatar

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of their recommendations was that there be a venture capital fund for investing in education. StartL, a new education VC fund backed by a number of leading American foundations, will be launching there. I was able to mention the Venture Capital in Education Summit that I’m attending in New York next week.

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Happy Tweetsgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.