How Data Can Multiply Donations

Plus, four essential shifts foundations can make to advance social movements (opinion) ADVERTISEMENT [Philanthropy Today Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. DATA AND FUNDRAISING [How Data Can Help Nonprofits Bring in More Donations]( By Rasheeda Childress and Emily Haynes [STORY IMAGE]( When data analysts work hand-in-hand with fundraisers, the results can be bigger gifts and better donor relationships. Plus, see our entire [July issue]( posted online today. ADVERTISEMENT OPINION [4 Essential Shifts Foundations Can Make to Advance Social Movements]( By Deepak Bhargava and Barbara Picower [STORY IMAGE]( Outdated strategies and lack of money for the infrastructure of community-organizing groups are limiting their effectiveness just at a moment when we need to fight profound threats – especially to our democracy. 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We’ll offer advice for big and small nonprofits. Don’t miss this free event and the chance to learn from your peers how to apply tech solutions to stay competitive. [Register now.]( SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE Enjoying the newsletter? [Subscribe today]( for unlimited access to nonprofit news and analysis. Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online Supreme Court justices are not supposed to be featured guests or speakers at fundraisers, but hosting organizations have repeatedly used their presence to woo big donors, according to an Associated Press investigation. Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan have taught or headlined events for colleges and universities in Texas, Florida, and Colorado where organizers invited past and potential donors. Sonia Sotomayor refused at least one invitation that spelled out its fundraising intent but in 2017 ended up dining with big contributors to Clemson University even after “her staff advised a preference against donors at a luncheon.” The court’s narrow definition of fundraiser — an event that generates more money than it costs or at which solicitations are made — leaves out the common practice of subsequent solicitations from donors who have received unique access to a Supreme Court justice. In a statement, the court said it spells out prohibited practices for potential hosts and said justices have sometimes refused invitations to events that turned out to be fundraisers, despite their hosts’ assurances to the contrary. ([Associated Press]( A national nonprofit will buy Maine’s largest chain of newspapers. Launched in 2021 to help preserve local journalism amid a steady stream of newspaper closures, the National Trust for Local News will buy five of the state’s six dailies, including the Portland Press Herald, and 17 weeklies. The deal saves the news organizations from the fate of many elsewhere, which have been bought by investors or hedge funds and slashed to skeletal staffs and budgets. Neither seller nor buyer would disclose the sale price. Owner Reade Brower said he sought a buyer that would run the publishing company, Masthead Maine, as a “sustainable business” without bleeding it dry. The deal was a collaboration between the newly formed Maine Journalism Foundation and the trust, which also owns 24 community newspapers in Colorado. The nonprofit structure allows the newspapers to solicit philanthropic support in addition to revenues from subscriptions and advertising, trust CEO and co-founder Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro said. ([Portland Press Herald]( Plus: Journalism Funders Consider Big Swing on Local News. We Can’t Afford a Miss. ([Columbia Journalism Review]( More News - A Volatile Market Has Hit Foundations. That’s Bad News for Nonprofits. ([Barron’s](. Background from the Chronicle: [Many Foundations Are Taking a Step Back After 2 Years of Steep Increases in Grants Budgets]( - 60-Year-Old U.K. Foundation to Close and Redistribute Over £100M In Assets ([Civil Society]( - IRS Issues IRA Tax Credit Rules for Tax-Exempt Organizations ([U.S. Green Building Council]( - Ex-Project Veritas Member Threatens Dirt on James O’Keefe ([Daily Beast]( Opinion - Republican Members of Congress Are Expanding Their War on Migrants to the Groups That Receive Federal Money to Help Provide Them With Food and Shelter. ([Bloomberg]( Arts and Culture - Studio Museum in Harlem and Other Clients Cut Ties to David Adjaye After Sexual Harassment Allegations ([New York Times]( - With Art Colleges Closing, a Chicago Museum Has an Alternative ([New York Times]( - How This Art Museum Designed Its New Logo to Be Anti-Elitist ([Fast Company]( - The West Is Returning Priceless African Art to a Single Nigerian Citizen. Should It? ([Atlantic]( - Artifacts Stolen From Kenya Decades Ago Are Returned ([New York Times]( Note: In the links in this section, we flag articles that only subscribers can access. But because some journalism outlets offer a limited number of free articles, readers may encounter barriers with other articles we highlight in this roundup. SPONSOR CONTENT | The James Irvine Foundation [Shifting the Balance of Power at Work]( Giving workers the stage to speak without fear or intimidation. EDITOR'S PICKS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK [Inflation Is Easing, but Nonprofits Still Feel a Crunch]( By Sara Herschander [STORY IMAGE]( Nonprofits are still struggling to recruit workers and are being hit with higher-than-normal prices, despite signs that inflation is easing and the labor market is cooling down. RESEARCH AND DATA [Wealthier Should Give to Charity, Say People Who Stopped Donating, New Poll Finds]( By Sara Herschander [STORY IMAGE]( Many Americans also said they couldn’t afford to give, and young people said they weren’t giving because nobody asked them to. DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION [What Nonprofit and Foundation Leaders Are Saying About the Supreme Court’s Affirmative-Action Ruling]( By Alex Daniels [STORY IMAGE]( After the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Harvard and the University of North Carolina had taken a discriminatory and illegal approach by using race as a factor in admissions, many nonprofit and foundation leaders issued statements. Plus: See [updated analysis]( in our article on the decision. OPINION [No One Is Right in the Debate for and Against Philanthropic Pluralism]( By Shamil Idriss and Rachel Kleinfeld [STORY IMAGE]( Both sides in the heated discussion over philanthropic bridge-building make worthwhile arguments but miss a critical point: Collaborative dialogue and action turn adversaries into allies and have historically yielded meaningful progress toward social justice. OPINION [Why Grant Makers Should Reject Shiny New Things]( By Lisa Pilar Cowan [STORY IMAGE]( Social change takes a lot of time. Too often, foundation officials get bored and forget that. ADVERTISEMENT RECOMMENDED WEBINAR [Join our next webinar]( — Learn from two experts: the founder of a firm that has raised more than $300 million in public and private grants for nonprofits nationwide as well as from a fundraising executive who has raised more than $130 million from institutions. 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