News about grants, gifts Greene County Community Foundation, an affiliate of North Carolina Community Foundation awarded grants from its community grantmaking fund to Greene County Middle School Board, Greene County Public Library, Greene County Schools, Make-A-Wish...
News about grants, gifts California State University San Marcos received a $200,000 grant from the Stuart Foundation which will be used to launch a campaign, ART=OPPORTUNITY, focused on providing access to better education and improving literacy through the arts;...
News about grants, gifts Triangle North Healthcare Foundation awarded over $200,000 in grants to local nonprofit and governmental organizations to commemorate its fourth round of grantmaking. High Point University (HPU) received a major gift from Dr. Michael and Susan...
News about grants, gifts The Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF) awarded two first-place and two second-place ISF Film Grants, totaling $35,000, for the year 2016. RGK Foundation awarded their final grant of $750,000 to the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community...
By Krystin Gollihue In the day-to-day, nonprofit organizations focus a large amount of energy on operations – the how of what they do to serve their communities. Sometimes nonprofits don’t have the resources to carry out their services well, even when they are funded....
By Krystin Gollihue We all know the story of Robin Hood and his band of merry men: a group of plucky outlaws who take from the rich to give to the poor. “While Robin Hood is the central figure of the well-known myth,” says Victoria Grantham, Managing Director of...
Special to The Philanthropy Journal By Rachel Litcofsky “We know that the IRS receives tens of thousands of applications each year and can safely assume that a significant number, perhaps a majority, run on budgets less than $500,000,” explains Naomi Eisenberger,...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Darcy Madden Meet Jeff Kushner. Jeff, 56, is a recently retired executive residing in a Boston-area suburb with his wife and two daughters. During his career, he held a number of leadership roles in the financial services sector,...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Paula Caligiuri, PhD In November 2014, John Staines, the human resources officer for global information technology at Cigna, had a problem. Cigna, one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S., was shifting its strategy, moving...
Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Heather Yandow How does your nonprofit stack up against other organizations? What does the average organization’s donor base look like? Or what can you expect to raise from monthly giving? The Individual Donor Benchmark...
