A Donor Who Stopped Giving Explains Why (Opinion)

Plus, seeking to curb racial bias in medicine, the Doris Duke Foundation is awarding $10 million to health groups ADVERTISEMENT [Philanthropy Today Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. You can now follow The Chronicle on [Apple News]( [Flipboard]( and [Google News](. OPINION [Why I Stopped Donating to Your Organization]( By Theodore Wagenaar [STORY IMAGE]( With new “Giving USA” data showing a near-record drop in charitable contributions, one donor advises nonprofits to do a better job of listening and communicating to people like him — or risk losing future gifts. ADVERTISEMENT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION [Seeking to Curb Racial Bias in Medicine, Doris Duke Fund Awards $10 Million to Health Groups]( By Kay Dervishi [STORY IMAGE]( The grants come amid a reckoning about the use of race in clinical algorithms and a broader push in philanthropy to promote equity in medical research. 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Most of the time-limited gifts are for three years, which nonprofit leaders say makes it easier to hire people, gives their employees some security, inspires confidence from other donors, fills gaps when other grant payments are slow to arrive, and allows course corrections. “Compared to my entire life of one-year grants, this is like a godsend,” Ted Phillips, the executive director of the United Community Housing Coalition, said. Laura Grannemann, who leads the Gilberts’ philanthropic arms, said three years serves as a good “proof point” for a project and allows nonprofits to focus less on fundraising. ([Crain’s Detroit Business]( More News - One Year After Dobbs, Colo. Nonprofits Spending Millions More to Help Patients From Outside Colo. 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SPONSOR CONTENT | The James Irvine Foundation [Shifting the Balance of Power at Work]( Giving employees the stage to speak without fear or intimidation. EDITOR'S PICKS SPECIAL REPORT [3 Years After George Floyd, Foundations Say They’ve Changed. Many Racial-Justice Nonprofits Disagree.]( By Alex Daniels, Marc Gunther, and Sono Motoyama [STORY IMAGE]( Foundations say the summer of protests following his murder changed them forever. But for many racial-justice nonprofits, the free-flowing supply of grants proved to be short-lived. GIVING [Drop in Giving From 2021 to ‘22 Was Among the Steepest Ever, ‘Giving USA’ Found]( By Rasheeda Childress and Emily Haynes [STORY IMAGE]( International aid was the only cause that raised enough to beat inflation, as individual donors contributed 13 percent less than 2021. Plus, see the [Giving USA data]( in four charts. BIG PHILANTHROPISTS [Warren Buffett Has Given $50.7 Billion Toward Historic Multibillion-Dollar Pledges to the Gates Foundation and Others]( By Maria Di Mento [STORY IMAGE]( He plans to continue to make payments to five foundations throughout his lifetime, as he promised in the statements he made announcing the pledges in 2006. OPINION [Philanthropy Needs to Support Builders — Not Bomb Throwers]( By Eboo Patel [STORY IMAGE]( In his new column for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Eboo Patel, the leader of Interfaith America, calls for a greater focus on what’s working in the nonprofit world and how to do more of it. OPINION [On Dobbs Anniversary, Donors Must Take the Long View in Response to Abortion-Access Crisis]( By Jonathan Wittenberg and Wendy Sealey [STORY IMAGE]( As more states peel back abortion rights or ban the procedure entirely, philanthropy needs to maintain a crisis response while also planning for a fight that could go on for years. 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