Donation Scams: Identifying Fake Charity Appeals
Social media has become a central channel for charitable fundraising, particularly during disasters, emergencies, and fast-moving public events. It has…
Why Collaborative Funds Give Me Hope Right Now
It’s hard to talk with nonprofit leaders today without hearing some version of the same story: Policies are shifting, funding…
Converting Programs and For-Profits into Section 501(c)(3)
Recent nonprofit news highlights a trend that many lawyers are seeing more frequently in practice. Programs lose government funding. Mission-driven…
McKinsey Report Misses Mark on Foundation Leadership
Advice on leadership is everywhere you turn but, unfortunately, a decent amount of it is not so helpful. Enter into…
IRS Criminal Investigation: What Nonprofits Must Know
For many years, nonprofit leaders have thought about the IRS as a civil regulator. The worst-case scenario was an audit,…
It’s Time for a Sector-Wide Reality Check
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)’s newly released report, “A Sector in Crisis: How U.S. Nonprofits and Foundations Are Responding…
Four ‘Principles of Interpretation’ for Philanthropic and Nonprofit Leaders Navigating Crises
CEP just released a powerful and provocative survey of nonprofit and foundation leaders about the state of civil society during…
A Constitutional and Moral Reckoning: The Opportunity for a Third Founding — And Philanthropy’s Role
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [sic] are created equal, that they are endowed by their…
The Best Corporate Grant Databases for Nonprofits: A Review
Each year, billions of dollars in corporate funding go unclaimed simply because nonprofits do not know the opportunities exist. For…
New Data Reveals a Sector in Crisis, But Steadfastly Mission-Focused
The importance of nonprofits’ work in the United States cannot be understated. In the words of one nonprofit leader CEP…