Nonprofits Plan for Year-End Fundraising — and Uncertainty

Plus, Blackbaud faces a lawsuit from donors after a data breach, and $12 billion was pledged worldwide in first half of 2020 to fight Covid-19 [Philanthropy Today] Are you working remotely? Many organizations provide access to premium Chronicle content in the office. If your group is one of them, you can maintain that access when you’re at home. Read this helpful [FAQ]( to see how. Your account is easy to set up and will provide you access wherever you are. Fundraising [Nonprofits Plan for Year-End Fundraising — and Uncertainty]( [Image]( PHOTO BY ROBIN F. PENDERGRAST By Emily Haynes and Eden Stiffman Charities are looking to existing donors, especially wealthy ones, to give during the last quarter of the year. The pandemic, record unemployment, and a divisive presidential campaign make planning tough. (PREMIUM) ADVERTISEMENT [advertisement]( Security [Blackbaud Faces Lawsuit From Donors After Data Breach]( By Eden Stiffman The plaintiff is calling for Blackbaud to provide free credit monitoring and financial compensation for victims. (PREMIUM) Disaster Philanthropy [$12 Billion Pledged Worldwide in First Half of 2020 to Fight Covid-19]( By Michael Theis However, the report by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid found relatively little funding earmarked for women, people of color, people with disabilities, and other historically disadvantaged groups. (PREMIUM) Opinion [Today’s Racial-Justice Grant Makers Could Learn a Lot From an Early-20th-Century Philanthropist]( By Suzanne Garment and Leslie Lenkowsky The billions pledged this year for racial justice should support more than legal, economic, and political change. As Julius Rosenwald showed us over a century ago, backing promising education programs can also make an enormous difference. More About Racial-Equity Grants See a Chronicle article about the unprecedented billions foundations are putting into [racial equity]( — where it’s going and where it isn’t. Grants Roundup [USAA Provides $30 Million to Help Military Families]( By M.J. Prest Also, the Gates Foundation has granted $23 million to three college-attainment groups, and a sports company has pledged $20 million to combat systemic racism. Paid for and Created by Omidyar Network [The Future of Workers and Work]( Covid-19 magnified the scale of an economy that is dramatically out of balance, clearly pointing out the importance and fragile state of worker rights, opportunities, and protections in the US workforce. This series of videos explores these themes in even more detail. A Message from Anthology: Campus Labs, Campus Management, and iModules have come together to create Anthology: a collection of the best in higher ed. [Learn more](. Nonprofit News From Elsewhere A U.S. Senate panel has found widespread abuse of a tax break originally intended to reward landowners who agree to forgo developing their properties for conservation purposes. The conservation-easement deduction, which landowners receive typically after donating development rights to a nonprofit land trust, was meant as a market-based way to keep some land pristine. Investment advisers, however, have been luring investors to buy land and receive deductions that are often worth far more than what they paid for the property. A report by the Senate Finance Committee said the deals were often "structured so that investors got tax breaks worth $2 for every $1 they put in, with language cut-and-pasted from one project to another." The industry group behind such deals said the problem lies in the property appraisals, not the investment structure. ([Wall Street Journal]( — subscription) The Whitney Museum of American Art has canceled an exhibition of works by artists and activists after criticism that it used underhanded and exploitative methods to secure the pieces. The museum bought some works at discounted prices via charity fundraisers to which the artists had donated their work. One photographer, for example, whose prints would normally sell for thousands of dollars donated a piece to a coalition of Black photographers — which in turn was raising money for criminal-justice and bail-reform groups — to be sold for $100. The idea was that the print would end up with a buyer who typically could not afford original art — but the Whitney bought it instead. The museum is now considering what to do with the pieces. ([New York Times]( More News - Federal Prosecutors Set Their Sights on Steve Bannon’s Murky Nonprofit ([ProPublica]( - The British Museum Has Taken Down a Bust of Its Founder and Put It in a Cabinet With a Label Identifying Him as a Slave Owner ([artnet News]( Innovation - [This Grocery Startup Is Placing Fully Stocked Fridges of Free Food Around the Bay Area]( ([Fast Company]( - Unemployment Is Rampant. So This Theater Is Giving Freelancers Money. ([New York Times]( - Bringing a ‘Broad City’ Approach to Energizing the Youth Vote ([New York Times]( What Everyone Else Is Reading [Confronting Philanthropy’s Uncomfortable Truths (Opinion)]( Nonprofits and foundations hoping to address our interconnected health and racial-justice crises need to be prepared to take on the societal systems that created them — and that have allowed their own organizations to flourish. ADVERTISEMENT [advertisement]( [Rockefeller-Led Covid Testing Plan Steps In to Replace Government Inaction]( In the absence of clear federal guidance the grant maker, along with other partners, is leading the way on multiple fronts in the effort to include Covid testing and tracing. (PREMIUM) [‘Fund Us Like You Want Us to Win’]( Foundations are putting unprecedented billions into racial equity, but some grant makers worry that too little is going to grassroots movements. (PREMIUM) [High-Dollar Donors Remain Confident During Pandemic]( Among donors who gave more than $2,500 to charities in 2019, 70 percent said they expect to give at least the same amount this year as in 2019, while 18 percent said they expect to give more this year than last year. (PREMIUM) [Companies Lead Philanthropic Response to Calls for Racial Justice, but Will It Last?]( As the cries to end police brutality against Black people escalated in cities across the country this year, corporations led the philanthropic response, moving faster than foundations to get billions of dollars in grants for racial justice out the door. (PREMIUM) Major-Gift Fundraisers: Learn From Your Peers [Join Our Webinar]( — Attracting big gifts from wealthy supporters gets more competitive each year, but 2020 has upended traditional approaches to big-gift fundraising. With the pandemic wearing on, in-person meetings on hold, and the economic outlook dim, how can you stay in touch with key donors in meaningful ways — and win big gifts? 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