Accountability

A woman filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Getty Foundation alleging she was denied an undergraduate internship with the institution because she is white. In the lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Samantha Niemann accused Getty of violating her civil rights, racial discrimination and harassment, as well as retaliation. She seeks unspecified compensatory and…

George Mason University’s president has responded to concerns raised by faculty, students and others that the public university has become overly dependent on private donations—questions prompted by one recent gift from a foundation with conservative ties and another that asked that the university’s law school be renamed to honor late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin…

Rarely in matters related to race can the issues be boiled down to contrasts between black and white. Typically, there are shades of gray that add nuance as to why situations are as they are and we find ourselves debating in those blurred lines. That blurriness is about to gain clarity with a new report…

Conferences include a variety of general sessions, workshops and networking opportunities. When you feel burned out or stale in your nonprofit position, go to a conference that interests you. You will feel renewed and validated...

In most cases, the question of who benefits from your nonprofit is directed at the end-user: What are your program’s outcomes? How does your nonprofit benefit society? But that question is not often directed toward the for-profit businesses that also benefit from your positive outcomes. By digging deep into this question, you will be able to find new funders for your nonprofit...

Is there some deep, dark secret lurking in the trenches of nonprofit fundraising, one that is nearly as bleak as the abysmal donor retention rates, one that holds organizations back from realizing their true potential? Yes. The bizarre lengths nonprofit organizations will go to in their endless pursuits of “free” is a bone-deep problem that afflicts organizations of all sizes...

As a promotion at recent fundraising conferences, my team had the idea to give away pedometers to the more than 4,000 fundraisers in attendance. If they walked 33,000 steps at the conference, and sent a picture confirming their totals, we’d make a $25 donation to their nonprofits. I thought this would become the Ice Bucket Challenge of fundraising conferences. It did not...

Nike co-founder Phil Knight is worth an estimated $25 billion, and plans to give most of it away to charity, he told CBS in an interview that aired Sunday. "By the time, you know, the lives of my children and their kids run out, I will have given most of it to charity," Knight said…

Two brothers await a South Dakota Supreme Court decision tomorrow on whether they can learn what happened to millions of dollars that disappeared from their late father's foundation. Mark and Paul Schwan—sons of Marvin Schwan who founded his namesake frozen-food business that owns brands, like Freschetta and Mrs. Smith's—are trying to figure out where more than $600 million went that the Marvin M. Schwan Charitable Foundation's trustees invested in offshore real estate developments...

Trump campaign’s adviser for veterans issues can’t account for $6 million the billionaire raised for veterans charities—and from the sounds of it, couldn’t care less. "I could ask, but it’s not high on my priority list," Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, said. Back in January, Trump skipped an Iowa presidential debate due to…