In late February, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) published the key findings of its annual Voluntary Support of Education survey. These findings are based on fundraising data for the 2022-23 academic fiscal year (FY), typically July 1 through June 30.
As detailed in a new report from the Independent Women’s Forum, “Working for Women 3.0: A Modern Agenda to Help Women Strive and Thrive,” policies abound that expand opportunities for women by encouraging the creation of a more dynamic, innovative and flexible working world.
In light of ongoing criticisms of donor-advised funds and their growing popularity as a flexible giving vehicle, Philanthropy Roundtable interviewed one of the authors of a new research report, “The 2024 National Study on Donor Advised Funds.”
In 2022, Arizona voters passed the so-called “Voters’ Right to Know Act,” which compels nonprofits engaged in public policy issues to not only disclose their donors, but their donors’ donors. Philanthropy Roundtable and our coalition partners have strongly opposed Arizona’s new law and what it might foreshadow for donor privacy.
Philanthropy Roundtable President and CEO Christie Herrera recently joined an episode of Giving Ventures, a DonorsTrust podcast designed to help charitable givers discover new opportunities.
Over the last few decades, leaders from across the political spectrum have been working on criminal justice reform. Many in the Roundtable network have been part of these movements and many of those reforms have benefited individuals and communities across the country; some have not.
The recent unveiling of the Biden administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2025 serves as a manifesto of the president’s priorities, albeit one unlikely to materialize into legislative reality. While the budget encompasses a spectrum of tax and spending proposals, three provisions targeting America’s philanthropic benefactors and foundations raise the greatest concern for charities and the people they serve.
Can philanthropists fix higher education? Donors should take a more effective and aggressive approach to funding higher ed, rather than abandoning it.
Recently, Philanthropy Roundtable Director of Policy Research Jack Salmon met with host of The Eight Principles Voices podcast Larry C. Johnson to discuss issues facing philanthropy, including donor intent and threats to donor privacy.
Last month’s Donor Intent Watch reported on a lawsuit filed by Webster University donors to stop the reclassification of restricted endowment funds as “unrestricted” to meet the liquidity requirement of the cash-strapped university’s loan obligations.
Elizabeth McGuigan, senior vice president at Philanthropy Roundtable, recently sat down with State Policy Network Marketing Manager James Pinedo for a podcast episode of “Neighbors in the Network.”
We are the third generation of the family of William G. McGowan, founder of MCI, who was known for being the “great disruptor” of AT&T’s communications monopoly. As we begin to help lead our family’s foundation, the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, we feel understanding the guidance from the Fund’s benefactor – and applying it in the context of the 21st century – is our responsibility.