An article in this morning’s NY Times reports on the rise of online fundraising tools that incorporate elements of social networking.
This isn’t a new trend, but it’s definitely growing, and the models are diversifying. As an industry, we need more experiments in online fundraising and marketing for charitable causes, so it’s always exciting to discover [...]
Recently, I spent three-plus days in Chicago to catch the annual Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Some of you might remember that I blogged last year’s conference in Brooklyn for GIA; it was an incredible (and exhausting) experience during which I churned out more words in a shorter period of time than I probably will ever again. [...]
Recently, JP Morgan Chase & Company gave away $5 million to two hundred charities, including some arts organizations, through its Summer 2010 Chase Community Giving campaign. Pepsi has been sending $1.3 million to nonprofit organizations each month this year as part of its Pepsi Refresh campaign, money that would have otherwise gone to Super Bowl ads. American Express [...]
Hello! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the new Research Director at Fractured Atlas. I’ve been working for several weeks primarily on the Bay Area Cultural Asset Map, but I’m also here to follow trends in arts policy and research and help bring them to a wider audience. You may have seen [...]
Is President Obama’s latest budget proposal a mortal threat to the nation’s charities?
There’s been a lot of chatter about his plan to reduce the size of tax deductions that wealthy Americans can claim for donations to charity. The basic idea is to reduce the deductibility to 28% from 35% for taxpayers in the top bracket.
Predictably, [...]
What one, or two, or three things do you have the most trouble finding money to pay for? Either because they’re expensive or because it’s hard to raise money for them?
A friend of mine at the Yale School of Management is doing some research in support of arts philanthropy. To his credit, he’s exploring how [...]
Andrew Taylor writes about the impact of economic downturns on philanthropic giving.
The general assumption about all forms of philanthropy in economic hard times — individual, foundation, corporate — is that as money tightens, contributions decline…. But if history is any indication, at least these charts suggest our general assumption may be wrong. Prepared by Alexander [...]
Ian Moss has some insightful things to say about the misguided tendency of some funders to make large grants to already successful artists:
[I]n a world of six-hour news cycles, the idea that the average person (or even a highly-educated person) would somehow “realize the theater is important” because a heretofore unknown organization gave one person [...]
Charity Navigator just published an updated listing for Fractured Atlas. Not only did we keep our 4-star rating, but our overall score increased by a few points.
Of course, charity rating systems like these need to be taken with a grain (or two) of salt. But it’s still nice to know that someone thinks we’re doing [...]
I spent the first half of this week at the Fortune Tech Conference. Usually when I go to events like this they’re totally arts-centric, so it was (mostly) refreshing to be surrounded by folks with a completely different perspective. (Note to Andrew Taylor: thanks to everyone’s obsession with VC-funding and industry gossip, this [...]
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